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416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)

The History of Literature

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I Think It Makes Sense to Lump Blake in With Romantics

Did coleridge recognize blake as being a some one to reckon with? Or ye, did it happen later? He was a little bit ahead of them, coleridge met him. And again, a report of the imagination its its arich. But i think they had a mutual friend, charles tolke, who'd lent coleridge this s no one knew of blake,. People like shelley or o keats or something, the would, they wouldn't have heard of blake, eas heas he was a nobody.

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