William Blake’s highly ambiguous stance toward Newton is vividly
captured
in “The Ancient of Days” – the frontispiece to his
Europe:
A Prophecy (Lambeth,
1794) – in which the god Urizen,
fashioned on Newton, creates a world.
For Blake, however, such
a rationalist act of creation is
lifeless. – Henry W. and Albert A.
Berg Collection of English and American
Literature, NYPL
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