Another character in this poem travels around the world as a comet and enters the author's foot to get to Golgonooza, the city of art and imagination.
At the end of the first of this poem's two books, one character is unbound from the four iron pillars that comprise Satan's throne and states that "nature is a vision of the science of the Elohim." Kenzaburo Oe's novel Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age! takes its title from this epic, which begins by comparing the perverted writings of Homer and Ovid to the sublimity of the Bible. Another character in this poem travels around the world as a comet and enters the author's foot to get to Golgonooza, the city of art and imagination. This poem's title character descends to the Earth and is united with the river Ololon, his feminine aspect. The prefatory poem to this epic asks whether a "countenance divine" shone forth "upon our clouded hills" among "these dark satanic mills." This poem begins with the lyric "Jerusalem," which asks whether its title character's "feet in ancient time / walk[ed] upon England's mountains green." For 10 points, name this prophetic book by William Blake titled for an English poet.
At the end of the first of this poem's two books, one character is unbound from the four iron pillars that comprise Satan's throne and states that "nature is a vision of the science of the Elohim."
Milton, a Poem