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Article: Prophecy, the law of insanity, and The [First] Book of Urizen.(essay)(William Blake)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- September 22, 2006
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Cowper came to me & said. O that I were insane always I will never
rest. Can you not make me truly insane. I will never rest till I am
so. O that in the bosom of God I was hid. You retain health & yet are
as mad as any of us all--over us all--mad as a refuge from
unbelief. (1)
On 4 March 1795, Richard Brothers was arrested for violating an Elizabethan statute forbidding the publication of "various fantastical prophecies, with the intent to cause dissensions and other disturbances within [the] realm." (2) The king's messengers led him quietly past a throng of followers, many of the "very respectable" sort that habitually camped itself outside his doors. ...
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