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| poetry by william blake | |
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It is engraved on 18 plates, and survives in just nine known copies. {Link without Title} It followed '' America A Prophecy '' of 1793. Northrop Frye ''Fearful Symmetry'' (1947), p.185. regarded it as Blake's greatest achievement in his personal form of mixed free verse. According to John Beer ''William Blake: A Literary Life'' (2005), p.82. The drift of the argument in ''Europe'' is to show how a Christian message that has been veiled, and cults exalting Virginity , have together fostered the so-called Enlightenment Philosophy which left no place for the Visionary . NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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