Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preliminaries 1
4. I: The dream of the Lion
5. Pastoral song 13
6. Pastoral ignorance 15
7. Plato's Phaedrus 16
8. The spring of the year 22
9. Epithalamion and elegy 29
10. To the evening star 33
11. "Night" and the lion of innocence 36
12. The illustrations of "Night" 51
13. The language of Flowers 57
14. The language of Tears 65
15. "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" 79
16. Innocence and Experience 99
17. "Ah! Sun-Flower" 103
18. "The Fly" 106
19. "The little girl lost" and "The little girl found": the Lion in Experience 110
20. II: The Descent into Night
21. Transformations 133
22. The Book of Thel 141
23. America and Europe 180
24. Visions of the daughters of Albion and Vala 199
25. Milton and the Four Zoas 215
26. Milton and Jerusalem 250
27. Jerusalem 266
28. Appendix A 295
29. Appendix B 297
30. Appendix C 298
31. Notes 303
32. Index 313