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Blake's London: times & spaces.(setting in the works of William Blake)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20020622
Author:Miner, Paul

WILLIAM BLAKE IN JERUSALEM DECLARED "I WRITE IN SOUTH MOLTON Street, what I both see and hear / In regions of Humanity, in Londons opening streets," and in the bio-celestial atmospheres of "The Mental Traveller" Blake "traveld thro a Land of Men ... & Women too / And heard & saw [my emphasis] such dreadful things / As cold Earth wanderers never knew," phrasing which reflects Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell (a work annotated by Blake), whose extensive title mentions "the Wonderful Things Therein, as Heard and Seen, by Emanuel Swedenborg."

"A WALK through London and Westminster, ...

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