Europe a Prophecy

In 1794, William Blake etched and painted his own vision of European history: eighteen years of war, revolution, and political darkness, orchestrated by Enitharmon, queen of moral sleep, while nations sink into illusion and violence. Neither straightforward chronicle nor simple allegory, Europe A Prophecy is a visionary cosmogony in which Blake's personal mythology fuses with the very real convulsions of his age — the French Revolution, repression, war. Two centuries later, this searing text has lost none of its force. At a time when Europe once again hears the clamor of borders and the rhetoric of war, when the sleep of conscience seems once more to be gaining ground, Blake's prophecy resonates as both a warning and a mirror. A hallucinatory, political work-world, ripe for rediscovery.