User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy)/The Gates of Paradise (Blake)

Title page from the later incarnation of The Gates of Paradise

The Gates of Paradise refers to a series of emblems engraved by William Blake in 1793, which were published as For Children: The Gates of Paradise. Sometime before around 1818, Blake reworked the engravings and added accompanying poems, publishing it as For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise.

The emblems

Completed in traditional copper engraving, the emblems

The poems

Thematically the poems are closely related to The Mental Traveller and The Crystal Cabinet

References

• Damon, S. Foster (1988). A Blake dictionary: the ideas and symbols of William Blake. Hanover, NH: Published for Brown University Press by University Press of New England. ISBN 0-87451-436-3. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[[Category:Poetry by William Blake]]