Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e. ButBlake was not content withallegories of so conq^arativelysimple a character. From theheights of Heaven to the abyss of Hell, and from the souls of heroes and virgins, the personifica-tion of thunder, of God the Father, and Death plucking down thesun, to the Canterbury pilgrims and the ghost of a flea—nothingwas too great or too small for his voracious imagination to feedupon. It is not surprising that
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e. ButBlake was not content withallegories of so conq^arativelysimple a character. From theheights of Heaven to the abyss of Hell, and from the souls of heroes and virgins, the personifica-tion of thunder, of God the Father, and Death plucking down thesun, to the Canterbury pilgrims and the ghost of a flea—nothingwas too great or too small for his voracious imagination to feedupon. It is not surprising that with such a temperament he wasalways seeing visions. Not only in Westminster Abbey did ghostsof great men rise and walk with him, but in the unromantic roadsof Peckham Kye he saw trees full of angels, and at Fulhamhe was present at a fairys funeral. A madman, but a trulyinspired madman, is the verdict of posterity on Blake. That he should have found scant encouragement in the era of the French o Pievolution, and in the England of the Regency, is not to bewondered at. He died in great poverty, having lived true to thefaith of his youth, that his business was not to gather gold but. _„_ J I WANT! I WANT! ( The Gates of Paradise, by MiUiam Blale.)
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