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New Left Review I/201, September-October 1993
Edward Thompson
Anti-Hegemony: The Legacy of William Blake
This has been a long, and perhaps strange, way into William Blake. [*] On one matter I am impenitent. Blake can’t have dreamed up a whole vocabulary of symbolism, which touches at so many points the traditions which I have discussed, for himself ab novo. Nor can he have put it together like mosaic from his reading. Things don’t happen like that. Nor can it have arisen just from a reading of the Bible, for this presupposes the Bible, and particular passages of Genesis, read in a particular way. The author of the Prefaces to Jerusalem and the ‘Annotations to Watson’, of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and The Everlasting Gospel, was writing within a known tradition, using terms made familiar by seven or eight generations of London sectaries.
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