On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:51:13 -0400 curtiss_leung at ibi.com writes:
> Somebody wrote:
>
> > > ...
> > > I think the dark satanic mills riff was appropriated from
>Robert
> > > Browning. ....
>
> > Grrr.
>
> As in "There go, my heart's abhorence"?
>
> "Dark satanic mills" was Blake...I don't have a clue as to
>Blake's
> politics.
>
>
Politically, Blake was a radical. He was part of a circle of friends
that included Thomas Paine. During the 1790s they were noted
for their sympathy to the French Revolution and were subject
to persecution from Pitt's government because of it (Paine had
to eventually flee from Britain to avoid imprisonment).
Jim Farmelant
> Curiously,
> --
> Curtiss
>
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