TY - GEN N2 - This work tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption. AB - This work tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption. T1 - William Blake and the myth of America :from the Abolitionists to the counterculture / AU - Freedman, Linda, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR4147 ID - 844578 KW - Antislavery movements in literature. KW - Politics in literature. KW - American literature KW - American literature SN - 9780191851261 TI - William Blake and the myth of America :from the Abolitionists to the counterculture / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813279.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813279.001.0001 ER -