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Frontispiece to The Song of Los by Wiliam Blake
Frontispiece to The Song of Los by Wiliam Blake

The frontispiece to The Song of Los by the poet and painter William Blake, published in Lambeth in 1795. The poem is one of Blake's prophetic books, a group of epic poems drawing on his own personal mythology to comment on his times. The Song of Los is in two sections, the first describing the decline of European morality and the second urging for revolution.