Blake’s attack on State Religion and Encoded Authority, by Saree Makdisi
Antinomianism, Patriarchy, and De-Coding the Matrix
No matter what difficulties he may have had with the Enlightenment discourse of liberty, Blake had no hesitation whatsoever in joining the radical attack on the patriarchal institutions of state religion and the political authority of the government: it is of course the established church where the little chimney sweeper’s parents “are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,/Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
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