William Blake's mythology

His myths often described the struggle between enlightenment and free love on the one hand, and restrictive education and morals on the other.

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.

Rintrah first appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, personifying revolutionary wrath.

The characters in it have to be treated more like a repertory company, capable of dramatising his ideas (which changed, over two decades).