William Blake and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts

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  • Michael Farrell Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

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William Blake, Edward Young, Illustration, Poetry,

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William Blake and Edward Young’s Night Thoughts. (2006). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 14. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/59