Tiriel (character)

This article is about the character Tiriel. For the William Blake poem of the same name, see Tiriel (poem). For the opera of the same name, see Tiriel (opera). For the minor character in The Book of Urizen, see Thiriel.

Tiriel is the eponymous character in a poem by William Blake written c.1789, and considered the first of his prophetic books. The character of Tiriel is often interpreted as a foreshadowing of Urizen, representative of conventionality and conformity, and one of the major characters in Blake's as yet unrealised mythological system.