TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. An Analysis of the Methodological Approaches Taken with Regard to the Formal Literary Structure of The Four Zoas

H. An Introduction to the Structure of The Four Zoas

III. The Pre-lapsarian State: the Opening Perspective of The Four Zoas

IV. Blake's Rational Cosmology: Being and Generation

V. Blake's Rational Cosmology: Time and Space

VI. Blake's Rational Cosmology: Motion and Attraction VII. Blake's Rational Cosmology: Order VIII. The Second Fall

IX. The Nadir of the Fall and the Creation: the Two Chains and the First Act of Divine Intervention

X. The Second Major Pattern of Action in The Four Zoas:

the Birth of Ore and the Re-awakening of Urizen

XI. Blake's Two Sets of Reference Points and Urizen's Journey in Night the Sixth

XII. Night the Seventh (a) XIII. Night the Seventh (b)

XIV. Night the Eighth: the Second Act of Divine Intervention XV. The Apocalypse of Night the Ninth

XVI. The Recreation of Albion as the Eschatological Adam:

the Harvest and Vintage of Night the Ninth

XVII. Conclusion

APPENDIX I

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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