The rulers of this world are by and large the most devoted and loyal servants of the God of this World. The young, idealistic, sensitive poet and artist experienced this sinking realization suddenly and acutely. Thereafter the most gruesome visions of fallenness filled the pages of his creations. (The same could be said of Isaiah or Jeremiah.) Taking their cue from Blake’s popular ‘Songs’ the critics have called this stage ‘experience’, but a more illuminating and descriptive term is ‘fallenness’. This is a snippet from Chapter One of Larry’s Blake.
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