Generally seen as a continuation of The Book of Thel, which represented the Soul in a state of Innocence, this relatively early work of Blake represents the Soul in Experience.

The theme of Visions is partly a criticism of the sexual morals of Blake's time. It also offers Blake's view of the evils of organized religion as well as comments on slavery and oppressed womanhood.

The heroine of Visions is Oothoon, who refuses to bow to conventions or the laws as sent out by the tyrant Urizen. Oothoon forms a love triangle with Theotormon, whom she loves, and the jealous and violent Bromion, who rapes her. The allegorical nature of the poem is established with Oothoon's identification with "the soft soul of America" and with the fact that Bromion is a slaveholder.

Eleven copies of Visions were printed and colored in 1793; several others followed over the next two years, and a final three copies were printed as late as 1818.

One of the shortest of Blake's illuminated texts, Visions of the Daughters of Albion contains a frontispiece and title page (shown here) and nine additional plates. The frontispiece shows Bromion and Oothoon bound back to back at the entrance to Bromion's cave, while Oothoon's lover Theotormon weeps in the background. On the illuminated title page, Urizen pursues Oothoon across the Sea of Time and Space. The caption reads, "The Eye sees more than the Heart knows."