Abstract
WILLIAM BLAKE's emblems often relate to a ‘mythological and recondite meaning, where more is meant than meets the eye’ (DC, E 531),1 a revision of Il Penseroso (l. 120), in which the poet Milton speaks of the allegorical weaving of Bardic tunes: ‘Where more is meant than meets the ear’. Accordingly, in Jerusalem (27:15–17, E 172) Blake assesses the idyllic ‘fields of Cows by Willan's farm’ with its ‘meadows green’—the ‘Cattle in the Fields and Meadows green’ of a Paradise not yet lost in Book Seven of Paradise Lost (460), reflecting the ‘Sixt’ day of Creation (449).2 In additional lines to Book Seven in Paradise Lost (475–91), after the surging elements of Chaos have subsided in Eden, Milton mentions the ‘Insect or Worm’ that ‘creeps on the ground’, engendered creatures that ‘wav'd their limber fans / For wings’, which in ‘smallest Lineaments exact’, as Minute Particulars,...
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