Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

by Damrosch, Leo

  spiritual, 142

  women blamed for, 212. See also revolution

  Ward, Aileen, 195

  watchman, Los as, 177–81, 192

  watercolors, 4–5, 31, 34, 105, 132, 195, 249

  water symbolism, 125

  Watts, Isaac, 51, 243

  Way to Be Rich and Respectable, The (Trusler), 40

  Webster, Brenda, 224

  Wedgwood plates, 33

  Welsh, Alexander, 80

  Wesley, John, 51–52

  Westminster Abbey, 10, 148, 229

  Westminster Bridge, 89

  Whatman paper, 29, 31

  wheels, Blake conceit of, 160, 227

  “wheel without wheel,” meaning of, 147–48

  Whitman, Walt, 267

  wicker man (Druid effigy), 190

  Willan’s farm (London), 149, 150

  William, prince of Great Britain, 148

  William Blake’s Writings (Bentley ed.), 6

  William Blake Trust, 4, 5

  winged figures, 57

  Wisdom, 237

  “Wisdom” (Lawrie), 239, 240

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 124

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 198

  Woman Taken in Adultery, A (Romano), 137

  women. See female headings; gender

  Women’s Institute, 148

  women’s suffrage movement, Jerusalem as anthem of, 148

  Wood, Polly, 18

  Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse, 135

  word pronunciation. See pronunciation

  Wordsworth, Dorothy, 94

  Wordsworth, William, 9, 197, 216, 231, 232, 233

  Blake and, 94

  Excursion, 231, 264

  Lyrical Ballads, 94

  on Newton, 123, 125

  Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 43, 231

  Tintern Abbey, 231

  workhouses, 62, 151, 153

  World War II, 118

  worm. See earthworm symbol

  Wright, Joseph, A Blacksmith’s Shop, 172

  Yahweh (God), 246

  Yeats, W. B., 41

  Young, Edward, Night thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (Blake illus.), 16, 17, 18, 25, 93, 253

  Youngquist, Paul, Madness and Blake’s Myth, 133

  Zechariah (prophet), 153, 246

  Zen masters, 270

  Zephyr (wind), 229

  Zeus (deity), 83

  Zoas, 155–62, 239–45

  breaking apart of, 172, 184

  emanations of, 160–62, 172, 183, 218, 219–21

  fall of, 173

  as four psychic components of self, 140–41, 155–57

  humanization of, 156–57, 158

  interaction in Eternity of, 155, 157, 160, 161, 162, 172, 242

  pronunciation of names of, 157, 172

  reason for Blake’s invention of, 156. See also Book of Urizen; Four Zoas, The