Desolate Market
Though drawing direct parallels between [William Blake’s] the Zoas and each of Desolate Market’s four sections would risk oversimplifying Blake’s shifting, often maddeningly complex mythos, Turner’s poems evoke the fourfold, anagogic phases of being and consciousness familiar to readers of both the Romantic poet and his interpreters, from haunted wasteland, to fallen human world, to enlightened society, to the divine.
