William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… might be modelled on his younger brother Robert. Together with ‘Inflammable Gass the Wind-finder’ and ‘ Steelyard the Lawgiver’, and several others, they form an imagined community of gossipy philosophers, resembling t he Birmingham Lunar … and pushing, Blake was put on trial for sedition against the British State. Hayley supported Blake by getting him a lawyer; this kindness is perhaps symptomatic of Hayley’s eagerness to support those in need (Bentley, The Stranger from …
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