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Previous essays in this collection have discussed and demonstrated Blake’s responsiveness to the historical processes that were unfolding about him during his lifetime, particularly in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The events of the French Revolution, the rise of industrialism, the ravages of war, domestic English politics, all find some reflection in his pages. He was equally perceptive concerning the manner in which the poor are overlooked and marginalized in every age.
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See, for example, Matthew Tindal’s Christianity as Old as the Creation: or Christianity a Republication of the Religion of Nature (1730).
James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 (1790), 5 vols.
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Beer, J. (1994). Blake’s Changing View of History: The Impact of the Book of Enoch. In: Clark, S., Worrall, D. (eds) Historicizing Blake. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23477-6_10
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