For the majority of William Blake’s life, Britainwas a nation at war. Countries, ideologies and individuals clashed in the ferment of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions.Britainexperienced unprecedented levels of mobilization, chronic food shortages, riots and the repression of civil liberties in ‘Pitt’s terror’. Blake recoiled with horror from ‘the English Crusade against France’ and the consequences of living in a militarized state, where freedom seemed to be crushed under ‘the Iron Wheels of War’ (‘Anns. to Watson’, E613; Jerusalem, 22: 34, E168). Yet Blake’s works do not figure conflict simply as a destructive force. If the first plate of the illuminated book Milton decried attempts to ‘prolong Corporeal War’, it also accused ‘the Camp, the Court, & the University’ of seeking to ‘depress mental [War]’ (E95). [download]
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