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Blake's Auguries of Innocence, the French Revolution, and London.(William Blake)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20050922
Author:Rix, Robert W.
Studies of William Blake habitually refer to his poetry as "prophetic." This is not surprising; after all, Blake titles his poems "prophecy" and peoples them with the figures of bards and prophets. Yet, a definition of what constitutes the "prophetic" has been wanting. Alert to the dangers of reductionism, in this short article I attempt to identify the basic formula of the "prophetic" in Blake's work, especially in his "Auguries of Innocence" and "London."
Blake's most direct treatment of the "prophetic" is found in the annotations he made to Bishop Richard Watson's Apology ...
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