Epic poem · 1797–1807

Vala, or The Four Zoas

The Death and Judgement of the Ancient Man: a Dream of Nine Nights

by William Blake

Blake's unfinished first epic, in nine Nights, on the fall of Albion, the Ancient Man, into the strife of the Four Zoas and his redemption.

Contents · 9 parts

• Night the Firstabout 500 lines
• Night the Secondabout 420 lines
• Night the Thirdabout 210 lines
• Night the Fourthabout 290 lines
• Night the Fifthabout 240 lines
• Night the Sixthabout 320 lines
• Night the Seventhabout 790 lines
• Night the Eighthabout 580 lines
• Night the Ninthabout 850 lines

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