1. The Jonah of London - William Blake
... proclaimed his tidings of God's wrath: "forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!" Two and a half millennia after the great fish vomited Jonah back onto dry land, William Blake faithfully follows that path of bilge and seaweed, bile and gall, into the fraternity of prophets and oracles. Just as Jonah was reluctant to prophesy to the Ninevites for ... must be liberated and his perceptions made clean so that "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite," and this all important task has fallen on one William Blake, prophet, author, & printer. "One thought fills immensity," so g...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate