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William Blake

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English poet referenced in a DeLillo quote as an artist who made the leap from individual soul to universal soul.

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"England ought to have its own anthem - it ought to have its own anthem anyway - and by all rights it should be Jerusalem. The best song about England ever written that isn't also about curry. You could say it's too Christian but the head of state is also head of the Church of England so that horse h"
The national anthem of England should be Jerusalem by William Blake · u/BeansAndTheBaking · ↑51 · 2025-07-27
"I couldn't make the leap out of my own soul into the soul of the universe. That's the leap they all made. From Blake to Rimbaud."
what did Don DeLillo mean by this · u/rtifishul · ↑40 · 2023-07-26
"And did those feet in ancient time, / Walk upon Englands mountains green: / And was the holy Lamb of God, / On Englands pleasant pastures seen!"
And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake · u/MtFRedditMod · ↑39 · 2022-12-09
"William Blake once dramatised a difficult bowel movement as a battle between primordial forces."
Link between genius and constipation · u/IErsatzHawkChad · ↑33 · 2025-08-30
"i was reading about william blake and the book i was reading said that people thought he was just a weirdo when he was alive. it's like if we found out 50 years later that the best musician of the 2020s is some guy who posted some albums on bandcamp that three people downloaded."
"England ought to have its own anthem - it ought to have its own anthem anyway - and by all rights it should be Jerusalem. The best song about England ever written that isn't also about curry."
The national anthem of England should be Jerusalem by William Blake · u/BeansAndTheBaking · ↑51 · 2025-07-27
"That's the leap they all made. From Blake to Rimbaud."
what did Don DeLillo mean by this · u/rtifishul · ↑40 · 2023-07-26
"And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen!"
And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake · u/MtFRedditMod · ↑39 · 2022-12-09
"William Blake once dramatised a difficult bowel movement as a battle between primordial forces."
Link between genius and constipation · u/IErsatzHawkChad · ↑33 · 2025-08-30
"Like William Blake before her, she took Protestant hymnology and its Biblical imagery and used them to craft deeply personal and private yet simultaneously metaphysical verse."
National Poetry Month Day 4: Emily Dickinson, the original dogpilled femcel · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑31 · 2023-04-04
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