Re: William BLAKE and Africa

["Chris, London" <100423.2040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Blake exchanges have been extraordinarily illuminating for me
as someone who always found Blake intriguing but problematic.

Ralph confirmed:
"Blake wants everybody to transcend their ascribed roles
in the fallen world to take part in the building up of Jerusalem"

The position is consistent with his being a passionate but idealist critic
of capitalist society. Such a position, going far beyond Blake, has both an
attraction and difficulty on a list like this, where we have the opportunity and
temptation to think universally, separate as much as possible from our concrete
economic, political, and psychosocial limitations.


Chris B, London.




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