Blake's Tyger
A Christological Interpretation


- Preface
- Postscript
- Last Words
- The Tyger - the Problem of Its Symbolism
- The Internal Pattern of the Poem
- The Internal Pattern and Christian Tradition
- The Miltonic Basis of the Poem
- The Poem in Process and in Illustration
- The Poem in the General Context of Blake's Work
- A Retrospect - the Resolution of The Tyger's Symbolism
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index

Index
Abdiel, 56, 73, 74, 76, 77, 86, 104, 105 Abrama, M . H . , 42 fn. 127 Adam, 56, 57, 126, 157 Adam and Eve, 54, 99, 107, 157 Ahania, 1 80 Albion, 153, 188, 195-96, 202, 224, 234, 246, 249, 250, 262 Alchemic and Hermetic thought, iii, viii Alchemical philosophy, 27 America, 163, 202, 203 Ancient Mariner, The, 126 "And did these feet in ancient time . . ." (interpretation), 245-53 "Angel Tiger", 42 Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love, 70 fn. 58 Anti-Trinitarianism, 101-02 Arianism, 101 , 102 Arius, 102 Art, Artist, 10, 140, 141 "aspire", 96, 98, 99, 100, 104, 105, 107, 111 , 129, 226-27, 162 Aurobindo, Sri, 4, 5 Bacon, 249 Basu, Arabinda, vii Bateson, F. W . , 5 , 1 3 , 54, 5 5 , 130, 13 1 , 157, 205, 246, 251 , 261 Beauty, 9, 10, 70, 1 40 Beelzebub, 118 Beulah, 207, 210 Blackstone, Bernard, 53, 146, 150, 154, 157, 159, 161 , 212, 214. 215 , 228 Blake: A Psychological Study, 225 fn .282 Blake and Modern Thought, 246 Blake and Tradition , v. 25 fn. 11 , 263 Blake as Artist, 3, 5 , 54, 132-33, 135, 136, 236 Blake Studies, 344 "Blake's Debt to Antiquity", 25 fn. 11 , 168 fn . 109, l Blake's Innocence and Experience, 132 fn. 11 Blake's Poetical Works, 141 fn. 5 |
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Boehme, iii, 28, 171 , 173, 175, 181 , 182, 183, 246 Book of Ahania, The, 1 16, 166, 198 Book of Job, Illustrations of the, 236 Book of Los, The, 218, 233 Book of Thel, The, 231 Bowra, C . M . , 137, 139, 140, 141, 155, 156, 162, 167 Brown, Raphael , 48 fn. 17 "burning bright" , 4-1 1 , 34, 35 Butts, 141, 231 , 235 Buxton, J . H . , i Canteenwalla, Dr. Ferdauz N . , vii Cat Jeffery, 42 Cave of the Nymphs, 134 chain, 36, 68, 123-4 Cherub, 105 Cherubim , 48, 105, 225 "Cherub Cat", 42 Christ, 33, 40, 43, 5 1 , 61, 64, 66, 68, 92- 1 10, 1 5 1 -53, 247. 261 "Christ the tiger", 4 1 , 42, 256 Christian Doctrine, 102 Christology , 40, 69 "climb", 150, 157 Coleridge, 5, 127 Colossians , 102, 231 fn. 309 "Collective Unconscious" , 4, 142 Collected Poems of Sri Aurobindo, 4 fn. 7 Complete Writings of William Blake, The, 2 fn. l Confessions, 73 Critical Essays on English Literature, iv, fn. 1 "Daughters of Beulah", 228 David, 46, 49 "David and Goliath", 5 De Doctrina Christiana, 45, 100-02, 265 De Victoria Verbi Dei, 45 "deep", 14, 89, 90, 91, 120, 239 "deeps", 13-16, 33, 77, 78, 88, 90, 9 1 , 92, 1 10, 238-39 |
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Demiurge, 27,170,173,177,209,222, 266 Demogorgon, 23,240 Desire, 70,158 deus absconditus, 28 Devil, 44 "devouring fire", 74,75 "devouring flame", 74,75,169 Dissertation upon the Mysteries of Eleusis and Dionysus, 134 "Divine Humanity", 4,70,146,152, 156,216 "Divine Similitude", 84,97,118,265 "Divine Vision, The", 157,161,162, 167 Divine Vision, The, 53 fn. 2,146 fn. 36, 244 Druidism, 83 Duraiswamy, M.S., i, iv fn. 2 Dyne,Sonia,48fn. 17 Earth's Answer, 54,174,232 Eden,157,162 Eliot, T.S., 40,41,42,43,256 Elohim, 220 "Elohim Creating Adam, The", 226 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, The, 50 fn. 25 Energy, 70,140 English Blake, 53 fn. 1 English Romantic Poets, 42 fn. 27 Enitharmon, 169,208 Entuthon-Benithon, 240,241,242 "Eternals", 159, 160,161,165,212,213 Eternity, 145-47,156,159,169,232, 233 Europe, 76,166,168,169,205 Everard, 171 Everlasting Gospel, The, 71, 72, 103, 201,254,255 Exploring Poetry, 22 fn. 6, 41 Ezekiel, 49 Father, Heavenly, 229 "fearful symmetry", 9-12, 86 First Book of Urizen, The, 159,233 Flaxman, 229 Ford, Boris, 2 fn. 2 |
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"forests", 9-13,16,23,32,35,80, 82, 83,165,166,169,170,184,192,196, 199 Foster, Damon S., 53 fn. 2 Four Zoas, 4,140,141,144 fn. 18 Four Zoas, The, 55,164,168,173,174, 203,204,235,248,257 From Blake to Byron, 2 fn. 2 Frye, Northrop, 42 fn. 27,53 fn. 2 Future Poetry and Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art, The, 4 fn. 8 "furnace", 91,124,172,173 Fuzon, 198-99 Gabriel, 90,92 Garden of Eden, 56,75,99 Genesis, 54,63 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 50 fn. 24 Gerontion, 40,41 "Ghost of a Flea, The", 5 Gnostics, 27,176 God, 147,148,175,228-30 Godwin, Jocelyn, 50 fn. 23 Gospel of John, The, 231 Gospel of Luke, The, 22 Grierson, Sir Herbert, 101 H, capital, 44,69 Habig, Marion A., 48 fn. 17 "hand or eye", 18,19,36,123 Hanford,J.N.,102 Harding, D.W., 2-3.7-8,24,30 "he", "him", 17-19,27,43,44,69.108, 110 Hell, 65 Hermetica, 28,170,171,176,193,209, 219 Holy Ghost, The; Holy Spirit, The, 50, 148,224 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 50,185 Hound of Heaven, The, 73 Human Abstract, The, 57, 232 "Human Imagination, The", 70, 152 Illustrations of the Book of Job, 236 Imagination, 4,147-49,152,153 Isaiah, 47,48, 104 |
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Jeffrey, 42 Jerusalem, 65,75,151,155,193,248 Jerusalem, Emanative, 1,53,55,244, 245,246,247,248,251,262 Jesus, Jesus the Imagination, 262,265, 266 Jesus of the Bible, 51-52 Job,47 John o' London's Weekly, 141 fn. 8 John the Baptist, 108 Jung, 4,141,142,146 Kazin, Alfred, 22 Kelley, Maurice, 101 Keynes, Geoffrey, i, ii, iii, iv, 2 fn. 1, 18,236-37 King Henry the Fifth, 40,41 fn. 23 Kubla Khan, 126 Lamb, The, 168,207-08 Lamb and the Tyger, The, 30,31,33, 35, 37,38,40,44,45,46,47,206-08, "Lamb of God", 207, 245,246,247 Learned derivations of the names of the Zoas, 144 fn. 18 Lewis, C.S., 102 Light, 116,117 Lion, 136 Lion of Juda, 46 Little Flowers of St. Francis, The, 48 fn. 17 Little Girl Found, A, 134 Little Girl Lost, A, 133,239 "Living Creatures", 4 Logos, 43 Locke,249 Los, Los(-Christ), 4,28,141,142,172, 208-23,225,231,233,242,243,244, 252,257 Lowe, J. Livingstone, 126 Lucifer, 40,47,48, 59,104,181-82 Luvah, 4,141,142,177,178,180,189, 236 Lyca, 134-36 Malkin,B.H.,131 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The, 29. 137,158,173,176,205,231 |
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Mathematical Commentaries, 139 Matthew, Brother, 48 McColley, C, 45 Mellon Lectures, A.W., ii Michael, 44,45,48,90,93,113,114 "Mills, Satanic", 245, 249,251 Milton, 155,240,245,247,248,249, 251,252,255 Milton, iii, 32,55,58,59,64,65,75,76, 83, 84,90,91,92,94,95,99,101; 102,103,104,106,107,113,114, 116,119,121,126,127,175,190-91, 204,254,257,261,262-63,264 Milton and Wordsworth, 101 fn. 158 Milton Handbook, A, 102 fn. 161 "Milton's Battle in Heaven and Rupert of St. Herbert", 45 fn. 7 "Minute Particulars Organized", 6,43, 197,256 Monk,F.F.,23,24,30 Moon, 115 "mortal god", 27,170,177 Mythology, Blake's, 221 Nature, 168,170,184 Neoplatonist tradition, 135,258 New Testament, The, 47 Newton, Newtonian science, 102,249, 258 Nicodemus, 40 Night, 8,184-87,191,192,196 Nimrod, 107 Nonesuch Press, ii Oaks, 83,194-95 "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity", 204 Old Testament, The, 47 Orc, 131,163,179,202-04 Original draft of The Tyger, 128-31 Paracelsus, 27,170 Paradise Lost, iii, 52,53,54,64,66,69,76,89,101,102,106,108, 111, 117, 157,158,185,187,220 221,230, 246,253,255,256,258,265 Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader, 45 fn. 8 |
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Paradise Regained, 102,108 Persephone, 134, 135 "Pestilence: the Death of the First-Born", 5 Philosophia ad Athenienses, 170 Pluto, 135 Platonists, 28 Pleroma, 252 Plowman, Dorothy, 144 fn. 18 Plowman, Max, 133,134 Pluto, 134,135 Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, 133 fn. 13 "Poetic Genius, the", 70,216 Porphyry, 134 Portable Blake, The, 22 fn. 5 "Preludium", 159 Preface to Paradise Lost, A, 102 fn. 162 Proclus, 134 Prophecy, 264 'Prospectus", 231 Proverbs of Hell, 138 Psalms of David. 49 fns. 19,20,21 Psychology, 4, 141,142,146 Puritan, Puritanism, 59 Raine, Kathleen, i, ii, vii, 4,25-29, 50 fn. 23, 134,144 fn. 18, 146,167-97, 222,231,237,258,261, 262,263-65 Rajan, B., 45,101 Ratio, Reason, 70,71 Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot, A, 41 Representative English Poetry, 24 fn. 9 Revelation of St. John the Divine, The, 44, 45,46,59 fn. 20 Rintrah, 205-06,231 Romantic Imagination, The, 137 fn. 1 Rossetti Ms., 54,55, 92 Rosenthal, M.L., 22,33-35,41 Sampson, John,T41 fn. 5 Satan, 40,44,47,56,57,58,65,66,68, 180,182 "Satan defying God the Father", 54 "Satan exulting over Eve", 54 "seize", "sieze", 17,26, 111, 112,113, 177-80,262,264,266 |
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Selected Poems of William Blake, 5 fn. 12 Selected Poems - T.S. Eliot, 41 fn. 24 Self, 4,146 Seraphim, 48,95 Sethna, K.D. iii, v Seturaman, V.S., i, iv fn. 1 Seurat, Denis, 246 Sewanee Review, The, 25 fn. 11,168 fn. 109 Shabda Brahman, 43 "Shadowy Female, The", 168,172, 180-81 Shakespeare, 40 Shelley, 14 "shoulder", 10,119,122 shoulder-art, 10,120 Signatura Rerum, 182 "skies", 12,13,14,16,77,88,92 Smart, Christopher, 42,43,256 Smith, A.J.M., 22,33-35,41 snakes, 5 Sola Pinto, Vivian de, 53 fn. 2 Son and Father, 43 Songs of Experience, The, 57,131,137, 163,206,231 Songs of Innocence, The ,139,206 Song of Liberty, 174 Song of Los, The, 233 "spears", 31, 32,60,61,162,164,166 Spectre, The (Reasoning Power), 149, 161,164,243,244 Sri Aurobindo, 4,5 Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, iv Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, i St. Athanasius, 50 St. Augustine, 73 St. Bonaventure, 48 fn. 17 St. Francis, 48 St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, 48 fn. 17 St. John, 43 St. John's Gospel, 43,231 St. Paul, 43,44,102,230 "stars", 15,20-26,29,30,31,32, 36,37, 39, 58, 59,162,163,164,173-75, 180-81, 185 |
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Stukely, 225 Summer, 239 Sun,115,118 Supernature,3,4,5,38,141,142,146, 151,153, 157,207,208,252 Symbol,Symbolism,Symbolization,2,127 symmetry, 9 Synecdoche,18, 85 Synesius, Bishop, 50 Swedenborg, 262 Swinburne, 23,24, 30 Taylor, Thomas, 134 Temenos, 50 fn. 23 That Night, 49 Tharmas, 4,141,142 Thompson, Francis, 73 Todd, 102 Traditions,Neoplatonic,Gnostic, Hermetic, Cabbalistic and Alchemical, 167 Trinitarianism, 101 Trinity, The, 54,96,102 Trusler, J., 3 Tutiensus, Rupertus, 45 Tyger's Artificer, Creator, Maker, The, 14,16-17,18,21,27,30,36 "Tygers", 197-200,238 Tyger, The, i, ii, iv, v, vi, vii, 30,33,43, 52,54,55,57,61,64,69,70,71,72, 73,74,75,81,82,89,91,133,157, 158,159,167,168,169,171,172, 173,176,177,179,181,201,202, 203,205,206,207,213,214,218, 219,220,223, 231,232,233,234, 237,238,239,241,242,253,255, 256,258,263,268 |
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Udanadan,Udan-Adan, 162,241,243 Upanishads, 4,146 Urim, 63 Urthona, 141,142,174,180,213 Vala or the Four Zoas, 79,155 Vaughan, 48 Vision of the Last Judgment, A, 152 Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The, 232 Voids, Newtonian, 251 War in Heaven, 158-67,182-88,192-97 Wars of Eternity, 150,151 Wheels, of Heaven, Satanic, starry, 173,174,241,244,251 William Blake, 4 fn. 10,23 fn. 8,146 fn. 35 "William Blake and Modern Psychology", 141 fn. 8 Williamson, George, 41 Wickstead, Joseph H., 132,136 fn. 21 wings, 49,50,51,92,93-96,105,106, 120,224-26 Witcutt, W.P., 141 fn. 8,225,282 Word, the, 43 Wordsworth, 131 "work", 29,30,31,62,63,110,222 Workman, Workman Mind, 170,171, 173,222 Wrath, Divine, 39,49,50 Yoga, 4 Zeus of the Underworld and Olympus, 136 "Zoa", 141 fn. 7 Zoas, 4,143-45,257,262,264 |
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