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Kathleen Raine — 9 recordings in the archive.
The book: Golgonooza, City of Imagination by Kathleen Raine.
Well of course Blake was a superb poet of the city and at the Industrial Revolution which is not saying he liked the modern city revolution and in any case this is the age of the equal City the sensibility of the nation has moved from being rural to being Civic and what Blake had to say of his own City London must surely have significance in Warwick Birmingham Remington and any other City so however what he has to say about London has little to do with those matters as a time camera or a writer on buildings of architectural interest might have to tell us about London nor indeed a historian telling of events and persons who have made the city famous not even Churchill's description of terms of liquid history was Blake's theme though that is afraid he would surely have liked but for Blake a city is a living organism a human awful wonder of God as he wrote it is the inner lives of its inhabitants as these act and interact upon one another and if this real city composed the million lives the city of Stirling brick of speaks and buildings of palaces and churches is only the images the image and realization this for the poet is primary the building is secondary not indeed that Blake himself a painter an engraver was unaware of the architecture of London and he spent as an apprentice engraver long days drawing the effigies of the royal tombs in Westminster Abbey and other buildings and their other Westminster Abbey's and poles appear frequently in his illuminated books as Westminster as his symbols of true spiritual religion and some poles of the symbol of natural religion dears it's contrary but her Blake the city is before or at the inner imaginative life not at one but of many minds its realization is the ever-changing expression of an ever-changing inner life and for Blake alarmed in a bond his native city is above all human I behold London a human awful wonder of God he stares return album return I give myself Bobby my streets are my ideas of imagination awake out there in a way could let us wake up together my houses or thoughts my inhabitants affections the children of my thoughts walking albian is of course the collective inner national being of england continuous through the…