Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, a prophetic poem by Blake, written and etched, with 100 plates, 1804–20. (It is not to be confused with the short poem beginning ‘And did those feet…’, commonly known as ‘Jerusalem’, which appears at the beginning of Blake's Milton.) After a Preface in which he defends his use of free verse, Blake proceeds to personify England as the fallen giant Albion, and to summon him to the ‘awakening of Eternal Life’ which lies beyond the Vegetable Universe, and to reunion with his banished emanation, the lovely Jerusalem. Blake mingles prophecy with social criticism, and biblical legend with legends of druids and Gog and Magog (see Gogmagog).

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