>>24658231
I love how modern audiences get Blake completely backwards. They see his depictions of Urizen and Newton (pic related) and think he is portraying them positively. Newton here is clearly depicted taking a shit on a toilet, crouched down, with his eyes cast down into the ground, at the bottom of the sea. All of Blake's positive depictions are figures facing upwards towards heaven, leaping and liberated from gravity, usually radiating with a sort of joy, totally unlike Urizen who is again crouched over, gazing downwards into a dark world. Not only that, but the preface of Jerusalem being the unofficial "anthem" of England despite Blake's regular criticism of the British government is also hilarious. Blake always wins, even his sworn enemies love him.