Urizen

This printing of The Book of Urizen from the Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress introduces a figure, Urizen, whom for Blake represented morality and legality.

2009 April 23 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

This printing of The Book of Urizen from the Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress introduces a figure, Urizen, whom for Blake represented morality and legality.

Page through the World Digital Library’s Book of Urizen 2009

In 1811 Schelling locates the past in a "time before the world" which, like Eternity in Blake's (First) Book of Urizen, is pure

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

A format for simultaneous presentation of the differently sequenced 'unique copies' of The Book of Urizen is suggested, as is an interactive format for The Four Zoas.

Article Abstracts 2005

Los could be molding the body of Urizen from the clay, or pulling down the idol of patriarchal reason.

The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

Romantic Circles Praxis Series would also like to thank Joseph Vicomi, the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, the Library of Congress, and the William Blake Archive for the links between Thomas Pfau's essay and the illustrated plates from Urizen from the Archive; and the collection of John Howard for this volume's cover and table of contents image.

Wang, Introduction 1997

This image, usually read as an illustration of Los creating a body or "Definite Form" for Urizen, is perfectly equivocal, reading equally well as a scene of creation or destruction, icon-making or icono-smashing.

The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

This image, usually read as an illustration of Los creating a body or "Definite Form" for Urizen, is perfectly equivocal, reading equally well as a scene of creation or destruction, icon-making or icono-smashing.

The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

Los could be molding the body of Urizen from the clay, or pulling down the idol of patriarchal reason.

The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

You have this vegetating ball of fibrous masses which eventually will form into what Blake calls Urizen, which is a sort of strange, ambivalent God-like figure.

The Guardian World News 2010