Talk:William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

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From Warner, Nicholas. "The Iconic Mode of William Blake". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 36, No. 4 (1982): 219-234

pp. 223-234: "Throughout Blake's work the fleur-de-lis has a negative iconographic function, as in "The Flight of Molock," one of Blake's illustrations to Milton's "Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (see plate 3). Here the fleur-de-list crowns the scepter of the Satanic, child-devouring monster. If ew return for a moment to "Christ the Mediator" and place it side by side with "Moloch," the effect of a fleur-de-list scepter in the nads of God becomes even more striking than before, as it disrupts the established mental sets with which we regard the depiction of God in art and the traditionally positive emblem of the fleur-de-list."

Ottava Rima (talk) 18:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)