Talk:William Blake's mythology

The first paragraph of this article is a direct copy of a large part of the William Blake article. While there is more here than is just there, can we delete one of the other? RickK 21:40, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

I won't be able to expand this a lot until I get my Blake books and notes out of storage in the next couple weeks. I'd rather it wasn't deleted, though. Bacchiad 22:18, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Right now they only have a sentence or two in common. Bacchiad 22:50, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No mention is made of Tirzah in either Tirzah or this article? An omission, or am I getting confused? JamieKeene 14:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

"A cruel Old Testament-like god"??? Boy, that's POV if I've ever seen anything that is. . .

True, it's excessively POV. It's also inaccurate, even for those who do take a dim view of the Old Testament; Urizen's creation of the world in "The Book of Urizen" seems to be done to provide a place for himself after his defeat/exile/imprisonment by the other Eternals; nothing of the sort appears in the Old Testament. Instead it's almost directly parallel to the Gnostic Demiurge's creation of the world after being hidden from the other members of the Pleroma. I went ahead and changed it.Vultur (talk) 05:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

If Blake's work is really about a "struggle" between "enlightenment" and "restrictive education," he seems condemned to obscurity. Am I right in calling this "original" research? How about a struggle between total awesomenss and your mean old mom? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.68.128.53 (talk) 19:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Please cite your sources

I have tagged this page as possibly containing original research. Please cite your sources for the information the article contains and remember that one cannot, on Wikipedia, analyze a literary work or provide a synthesis of scholarly opinions without providing independent and reliable sources. See WP:NOR for further information. --Cantabwarrior (talk • contribs) 3:43, 18 April

I don't see any serious issues of Original Research in this article -- although there are some glaring omissions of information. It's a commonplace to state Blake was influence by Swedenborg: Blake is known to have read him & alludes to his works many times. Milton is also uncontroversially acknowledged to have influence Blake; one of Blake's longer poems is titled, Milton. Although Blake is known to have read Böhme, it is unclear just how far that writer influenced him, so that statement may need a source. And as for the list of characters & works associated with Blake's mythology, any standard reference -- e.g. S. Foster Damon's Blake Dictionary -- would provide an adequate confirmation of what's stated in the article. However, there are both names & poems omitted from the lists: omitted characters include Los & Orc, & omitted poems include Milton & Jerusalem. If anything, this article is currently little more than a collection of incomplete lists & in need of serious attention from someone who knows the secondary literature. That's the chronic problem, though: Wikipedia editors who know the secondary literature on for either specific literary authors in general are disappointingly rare. Most people receive a B.A. in English Lit without ever being taught about it in a meaningful way. -- llywrch (talk) 20:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Sources

Regarding "William Blake's mythology", hopefully here are helpful sources:

• Schorer, Mark (Autumn 1942). "Mythology (For the Study of William Blake)". The Kenyon Review. 4 (3). Kenyon College: 366-380 (15 pages). JSTOR 4332360. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
• Cunningham, Teresa L., "William Blake's artificial mythology and quotations from world mythos" (2008). Graduate Theses, Dissertations. [1].

---Steve Quinn (talk) 11:37, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Where can I find it?

"the psychological roots of his work have been revealed, and are now much more accessible than they were a century ago" is quite the teaser. I can't believe someone would write this and then not say a word about what those roots are or where they can be "accessed".100.19.20.76 (talk) 06:46, 18 October 2020 (UTC)