...the secretary — the authors are in eternity." In an earlier letter (April 25th, 1803) he had said: "I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...time, without premeditation, and even against my will" [139 : 41]. Blake had a mental intuition, inspiration, or revelation — call it what we will ; it...

...pretend to be any other than the secretary — the authors are in eternity." At another time he wrote, " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...time, without premeditation and even against my will." These were the last of the prophetic books which were published, if we except "The Ghost of Abel,"...

...the persons and"' machinery entirely new to the inhabitants of earth (some of the persons excepted). I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without 1 The Milton (dated 1804, but not given to the world until about 1808) deals especially with the acts...

...the persons and machinery entirely new to the inhabitants of earth (some of the persons excepted). I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without 1 The Milton (dated 1804, but not given to the world until about 1 808) deals especially with the acts...

...September 1801, including all the myth of Palamabron. It was done, as a later letter says, " twelve, twenty, or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation,...exists which seems to be the labour of a long life." He says also that it is " similar to Homer's Iliad and Milton's Paradise Lost." This "poem" has not...

...September 1801, including all the myth of Palamabron. It was done, as a later letter says, " twelve, twenty, or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation,...exists which seems to be the labour of a long life." He says also that it is " similar to Homer's Eiad and Milton's Paradise Lost." This "poem" has not...

...messengers from heaven, daily and nightly.' 'I have written this poem,' he says of the Jerusalem, ' from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty...without premeditation, and even against my will.' ' I may praise it,' he says in another letter, 'since I dare not pretend to be any other than the secretary...

...from the corporeal understanding," is Blake's "definition of the most sublime poetry." The writing was "from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty...at a time, without premeditation, and even against " his " will." " Thus," he writes, " the time it has taken in writing was rendered non-existent, and...

...supernatural inspiration. " I have written this poem," he said, at a later date, speaking of his Jerusalem, "twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time,...non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems the labour of a long life, all produced without labour or study." In the transcription of these mystical...

...shortly after his arrival in South Moulton Street. He writes of Jerusalem in one of his letters : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...time, without premeditation, and even against my will " ; and in a later letter, speaking of it as " the grandest poem that this world contains," he excuses...