...immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without pre- meditation and even against my will. The time it has taken in...non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to bo the labour of a long life, all produced without labour or study. Whatever may be their source, all...

...come from the writer's normal consciousness. In speaking of the prophetic book Milton, he says — I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without pre- meditation and even against my will. The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent,...

...visions. He was, as is wellknown, subject to ' automatic writing ' ; in regard to ' Jerusalem ' he says, " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." Now those very parts of Blake's work which are the result of automatic writing are the most unintelligible...

...Master put into her mind. So Blake said of ' Milton ' and ' Jerusalem,' ' I have written the poems from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty...non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to be the labor of a long life, all produced without labor or study.' " There are, of course, extreme forms of...

...he says, " since I dare not pretend to be other than the secretary; the authors are in eternity." " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...a time without premeditation, and even against my will."2 So Bohme,3 speaking of his visions, says: " Whatever I could bring into outwardness, that I...

...he says, " since I dare not pretend to be other than the secretary ; the authors are in eternity." " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." 2 So Bohme,3 speaking of his visions, says : " Whatever I could bring into outwardness, that I wrote...

...to be any other than the secretary — the authors are in eternity." At another time he said of it : "I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...a time, without premeditation, and even against my will."1 Many such dissociations of personality in authors have been recorded. The king and high priest...

...unconscious reference to another passage from Paradise Lost, of similar import, in his remark to Butts, "I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation." * He seems to have taken Milton's allusions to the visits of the muse more seriously and to have interpreted...

...Gedichte aufgenommen. -•l Novalis, Heilborn II, Seite 6; Minor II, Seite 115. •) Prosa I, Seite 35. and even against my will. The time it has taken in...poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long lif e, all produced without labour orstudy"1). Wie aber eine haarscharfe Absonderung des Dichters vom...

...inhabitants of earth (some of the persons excepted). I have written the poems from immediate diftation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation, and even againft my will. The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent, and an immense poem...