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Amy Beach, Gaelic Symphony in E Minor – I. Allegro con fuoco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vpSxakMeo
William Blake Europa Prophecy Poem Performance
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/blake-europe-a-prophecy-brexit-or-europe-according-to-william-blake/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His so-called prophetic works were said by 20th century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[3] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[4] Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham),[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[6] or "human existence itself".[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology
The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem, The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death. In this work, Blake traces the fall of Albion, who was "originally fourfold but was self-divided".[1] This theme was revisited later, more definitively but perhaps less directly, in his other epic prophetic works, Milton a Poem and Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
The parts into which Albion is divided are the four Zoas:
Tharmas: representing instinct and strength.
Urizen: reason, tradition; a cruel god resembling the Gnostic Demiurge.
Luvah: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like ..
