Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c. 1816–1820)

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" Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c. 1816–1820) "
Naomi Billingsley

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081901
Doc. No	:	LA125530
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Naomi Billingsley
Title & Author	:	Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c. 1816–1820) [Article]\ Naomi Billingsley
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	16–39
Abstract	:	This article presents a revisionist reading of William Blake’s (1757–1827) twelve watercolor designs for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” (c. 1816–1820). The designs have previously been dismissed in critical commentary as of little interest to Blake scholarship, or regarded as a narrative merely about Christ’s human nature. This article argues that they are also a visual expression of Blake’s cosmology; it is proposed that the designs express a positive cosmology, in which Paradise is not so much to be regained, as re-viewed. The article argues that Blake emphasizes Christ’s divinity in the designs and that he is depicted as an immanent, sacramental presence in the world; hence, the world that Christ inhabits in the designs is a Paradise. The article begins by outlining its reading of Blake’s view of the material world, and moves on to discuss the “Paradise Regained” designs in detail, with a particular focus on The Baptism of Christ, the opening subject of the series, which establishes the positive cosmology presented throughout the series.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Baptism of Christ
Descriptor	:	Christ
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	cosmology
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	John Milton
Descriptor	:	Paradise Regained
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Satan
Descriptor	:	Temptations of Christ
Descriptor	:	William Blake
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201001‬