The Book of Thel
work by Blake
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discussed in biography
- In William Blake: Blake as a poet
…life a little further in The Book of Thel (1789), the first of his published myths. The melancholy shepherdess Thel asks, “Why fade these children of the spring? Born but to smile & fall.” She is answered by the Lilly of the Valley (representing water), the Cloud (air), and the…
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