GSV2-blake-vision – Yellow Nineties 2.0

The hand-coloured illustration is an unframed half-page illustration for an excerpt from William Blake’s “A Vision of the Last Judgement.” The image is centered horizontally on the page. It depicts the head and shoulders of a pale-skinned man with hair made of flames. He faces the viewer, eyes open wide. His hair rises up vertically, in orange and yellow flames. The artist’s signature is at the bottom right of the image.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine
bosom into which we shall go after the death of the vegetated body.

The world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world
of generation or vegetation is finite and temporal.

There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything
which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

William Blake.

MLA citation:

Blake, William. Untitled. [“The World of Imagination”], illustrated by W.T. Horton. The Green Sheaf, No. 2, 1903, p. 2. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/GSV2-blake-vision/

magazine_texts The Green Sheaf 2 Untitled. [‘The World of Imagination’] (from A Vision of the Last Judgement) William Blake 1903 Poetry