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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001111
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IT IS perhaps a tribute to William Blake's genius that he can be claimed as a prophet by such disparate admirers. To some nationalists, the peculiar Englishness of his visions is what appeals, although many are the sort of people who love a revolutionary so long as they are 200 years dead.

But then Blake is not an easy ally for any tendency of opinion.

Rationalists might feel that his religious mysticism has an uncomfortably New Age feel. He was quizzical about scientific progress, a utopian dreamer of a pre-industrial age. Socialists and conservatives alike have adopted "Jerusalem" as their ...

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