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- Title
MAINADUC, MAGIC, AND MADNESS: GEORGE CUMBERLAND AND THE BLAKE CONNECTION.
- Authors
Bentley Jr., G. E.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the writings of William Blake. Over the years, William Blake has repeatedly been linked to the underground world of secret societies, mesmerism and magic, freemasonry and fraud. There can be little doubt that the artistic world of Blake's time was rife with speculation about the limits of reason and the powers of the unknown, and Blake was one of the most vigorous and independent of these speculators. It is at least possible that Blake's information about this subterranean world and his attitudes towards it are derived from his intimate friend George Cumberland.
- Subjects
BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; WRITING; FREEMASONRY; MESMERISM; SECRET societies; MAGIC
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1991, Vol 38, Issue 3, p294
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/38.3.294