The Everlasting Gospel
A L Morton's study in the sources of William Blake (1958)
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 64pp.
"William Blake has always been an enigma. What was the source of the social and religious ideas which he expressed with such a wealth of strange imagery in his poems and paintings? In this short and highly original study, A L Morton casts entirely new light on Blake's sources and meanings. In a striking series of parallels, he connects Blake's ideas and images with a submerged dissenting tradition which had existed in England from Cromwell's days and which had given rise earlier to such curious sects as the Ranters or the Muggletonians. Blake was the last prophet of "The Everlasting Gospel" proclaimed among the Levellers in the revolutionary civil wars, Morton thus demonstrates the essential Englishness of Blake—for Blake, the New Jerusalem was to come in England and was a product of the English soil. And in doing so, Morton also gives s a glimpse of a fascinating and little studied current in the history of the common people of England."
Condition
The book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a little tanned and knocked but has not been price-clipped.
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£25.00
