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The Book of Urizen
''The Book of Urizen'' is one of the major prophetic books of the English writer William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as ''The First Book of Urizen'' in 1794. Later editions dropped the "First". The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blake's mythology, who represents alienated reason as the source of oppression. The book describes Urizen as the "primeaval priest" and tells how he became separated from the other Eternals to create his own alienated and enslaving realm of religious dogma. Los and Enitharmon create a space within Urizen's fallen universe to give birth to their son Orc, the spirit of revolution and freedom.
In form the book is a parody of the Book of Genesis. Urizen's first four sons are Thiriel, Utha, Grodna and Fuzon (respectively elemental Air, Water, Earth, Fire, according to Chapter VIII). The last of these plays a major role in ''The Book of Ahania'', published in 1795.
==Background==
In autumn 1790 Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. In the studio of his new house he wrote what became known as his "Lambeth Books", which included ''The Book of Urizen''. In all these books, Blake completed their design composition, their printing and colouring, and their sales from that house.〔Bentley 2003 pp.122-124〕 Blake included early sketches for ''The Book of Urizen'' in a notebook containing images created between 1790 and 1793.〔Bentley 2003 p. 142〕 ''The Book of Urizen'' was one of the few works that Blake describes as "illuminated printing", one of his colour printed works with the coloured ink being placed on the copperplate before the page was printed.〔Bentley 2003 pp. 149〕
''The Book of Urizen'' was printed from 1794 until 1818 and was larger than his ''America, A Prophecy''. Only eight copies of the work survive, with many variations between them of the plate orders and the number of plates. All the surviving copies were colour-printed.〔Bentley 2003 p. 154〕
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