Leutha

Female character appearing in the mythology of William Blake

Leutha is a female character appearing in the mythology of William Blake. According to S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, she stands for 'sex under law'.

## Incidence

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Leutha is mentioned in

* Visions of the Daughters of Albion
* The Book of Los
* Europe a Prophecy
* America a Prophecy
* The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
* Milton
* Vala, or The Four Zoas
* Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

## Relationships

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She is the Emanation of Bromion. She occurs in a pair with the male Antamon.

In Milton

But when Leutha (a Daughter of Beulah) beheld Satans condemnation
She down descended into the midst of the Great Solemn Assembly
"Offering herself a Ransom for Satan, taking on her, his Sin."

Whence the interpretation commonly given as guilt, and in particularly sexual guilt.

## Locality

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In the poem And did those feet in ancient time by William Blake, Leutha is associated with the Isle of Dogs:

He came down from Highgate thro' Hackney & Holloway towards London
Till he came to old Stratford, & thence to Stepney & the Isle
Of Leutha's Dogs, thence thro' the narrows of the River's side,
And saw every minute particular, the jewels of Albion, running down
The kennels of the streets and lanes as if they were abhorr'd
Every Universal Form was become barren mountains of moral
Virtue, and every Minute Particular harden'd into grains of sand
And all the tendernesses of the soul cast forth as filth and mire.

## Name

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The homophone relationship to Martin Luther has often been pointed out. Angela Esterhammer (Blake and Language p. 73, in William Blake Studies (2006), edited by Nicholas M. Williams) writes:[1]

> Blake's Leutha represents 'Protestant speech' -- an association achieved partly through the pun on 'Luther', but mainly through her own verbal behaviours in Blake's prophetic poems, where she manifests 'Protestant' modes of speech such as public self-scrutiny, self-exaggeration, confession, and plain-spokenness.

## References

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1. ^ Esterhammer, Angela (2006). "Blake and Language". In Williams, Nicholas M. (ed.). Palgrave advances in William Blake studies. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. p. 73\. ISBN 978-1-4039-1599-3. Retrieved 4 February 2024.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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William Blake

Literary works

| Early writings|

* Poetical Sketches
* An Island in the Moon
* All Religions are One
* There is No Natural Religion

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Songs of Innocence
and of Experience|

| Songs of Innocence|

* The Shepherd
* The Ecchoing Green
* The Lamb
* The Little Black Boy
* The Blossom
* The Chimney Sweeper
* The Little Boy Lost
* The Little Boy Found
* Laughing Song
* A Cradle Song
* The Divine Image
* Holy Thursday
* Night
* Spring
* Nurse's Song
* Infant Joy
* A Dream
* On Another's Sorrow

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Songs of Experience|

* Introduction
* Earth's Answer
* The Clod and the Pebble
* Holy Thursday
* The Little Girl Lost
* The Little Girl Found
* The Chimney Sweeper
* Nurse's Song
* The Sick Rose
* The Fly
* The Angel
* The Tyger
* My Pretty Rose Tree
* Ah! Sun-flower
* The Lilly
* The Garden of Love
* The Little Vagabond
* London
* The Human Abstract
* Infant Sorrow
* A Poison Tree
* A Little Boy Lost
* A Little Girl Lost
* To Tirzah
* The School Boy
* The Voice of the Ancient Bard
* A Divine Image (found only in Copy BB)

Prophetic
books|

| The continental
prophecies|

* America a Prophecy
* Europe a Prophecy
* The Song of Los

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Other|

* Tiriel
* The Book of Thel
* The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
* The French Revolution
* Visions of the Daughters of Albion
* The Book of Urizen
* The Book of Ahania
* The Book of Los
* The Four Zoas
* Milton
* Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

The Pickering Manuscript|

* "Auguries of Innocence"
* "The Mental Traveller"

The Rossetti Manuscript|

"Never pain to tell thy love"

Mythology

* Ahania
* Albion
* Beulah
* Bromion
* Enion
* Enitharmon
* Fuzon
* Golgonooza
* Grodna
* Har
* Leutha
* Los
* Luvah
* Orc
* Palamabron
* Spectre
* Tharmas
* Thiriel
* Tiriel
* Urizen
* Urthona
* Utha
* Vala

Art

| Paintings
and prints|

* Relief etching
* Engravings for Original Stories from Real Life
* The Ancient of Days
* Europe Supported by Africa and America
* The Night of Enitharmon's Joy
* Newton
* Nebuchadnezzar
* Illustrations for Night-Thoughts
* Illustrations of The Grave
* The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne
* Illustrations of Paradise Lost
* A Vision of the Last Judgement
* Descriptive Catalogue
* The Great Red Dragon paintings
* Pity
* The Ghost of a Flea
* Agony in the Garden
* Illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
* The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
* Illustrations of the Book of Job

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Sketches|

* Visionary Heads

Scholarship, in popular culture, and more

| Scholarly works|

* Life of William Blake
* The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical
* Fearful Symmetry
* Blake: Prophet Against Empire
* Witness Against the Beast

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Musical|

* Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943)
* Ten Blake Songs (1958)
* Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965)
* The Lamb (1982)
* Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998)

Related|

* William Blake in popular culture
* William Blake Archive
* Blake (1983 monologue)
* In Lambeth (1989 play)
* Catherine Blake (wife)
* Ancients

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