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The article explores the depiction of hybrid monsters in English poet and artist William Blake's writings. Topics covered include the mythological precedents and symbolic significance of some of his hybrid monsters, some of the supernatural beings depicted in his writings, and how Blake represented Leviathan and Behemoth in various ways.

A literary criticism of the poem "Jerusalem" by William Blake is presented. It explores an allusion to gnostic literature in one of Blake's plate emblems, comparing Blake's use of the Beast, Leviathan, and Behemoth images to similar ones in gnostic cosmology. It discusses Blake's images of the manipulation of night by the bestial Specter and the Divine Vision of the heavens in relation to gnostic cosmological hierarchies. Blake's description of Tartarus, Gehenna, and Bath, England are mentioned.