The Book of Los is a 1795 prophetic book by the English poet and painter William Blake. It exists in only one copy, now held by The British Museum.[1] The book is related to the Book of Urizen and to the Continental prophecies; it is essentially a retelling of Urizen from the point of view of Los.[1] The book has been described as a rewriting of the ancient myth of creation that equates fall with the loss of spiritual vision brought about by selfhood.[2][3]
- ^ a b Damon, S. Foster (1988). A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. Hanover: University Press of New England. p. 51. ISBN 0-87451-436-3.
- ^ John Howard, Infernal poetics: poetic structures in Blake's Lambeth prophecies, (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1984), ISBN 0-8386-3176-2 Page 10
- ^ Saree Makdisi, William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s, (University of Chicago Press, 2003), ISBN 0-226-50259-7 Page 13