The Books
- Tiriel (c.1789)
- The Book of Thel (c.1789)
- America a Prophecy (1793)
- Europe a Prophecy (1794)
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
- The Book of Urizen (1794)
- The Book of Ahania (1795)
- The Book of Los (1795)
- The Song of Los (1795)
- Vala, or The Four Zoas (begun 1797, unfinished, abandoned c.1804)
- Milton, A Poem (1804-1810)
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820)
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