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Blake’s diagnosis of the problem of his age was, like
Pope’s in The Dunciad , a direct confrontation of the forces
shaping human perception. That he sought mythical form by
which to render his vision was both necessary and ineffectual.
For myth is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complex
group of causes and effects. In an age of fragmented, lineal
awareness, such as produced and was in turn greatly
exaggerated by Gutenberg technology, mythological vision
remains quite opaque. The Romantic poets fell far short of
Blake’s mythical or simultaneous vision. They were faithful to
Newton’s single vision and perfected the picturesque outer
landscape as a means of isolating single states of the inner
life. (3)
It is instructive for the history of human sensibility to
note how the popular vogue of the Gothic romance in Blake’s