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In
Jerusalem, his greatest prophetic book, Blake famously wrote: 'I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
I will not reason & compare: my business is to create'.
So while other poets might be content to use characters
from the Bible, or from Greek and Roman myth, Blake created
his own mythology populated by a host of beings that he
himself had either invented, or re-interpreted. |