America a Prophecy
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America a Prophecy is a 1793 prophetic book by the English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blake's Cont
Title page of America a Prophecy, copy A (printed 1793), collection the Morgan Library
In plate 8 (copy A) Orc, spirit of revolution, arises. "The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up"
The frontispiece to America a Prophecy (Copy A)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. The edition was very small, and copies have been individually traced. It is a short a
America a Prophecy
…having "aged limbs", and other episodes are compressed or out of order. In regards to the prophetic works, the character Oothoon represented America in Visions of the Daughters of Albion and she is raped by the character Bromion. The book represents her as trapped by a philosophical system created by John Locke, and no one is able to…
Frontispiece to William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), which contains Blake's critique of Abrahamic values of marriage.