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The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to what is now England and visited Glastonbury during the unknown years of Jesus. The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem. The Christian Church in general, and the English Church in particular, has long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace. In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit by Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the "dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution. Blake's poem asks questions rather than asserting the historical truth of Christ's visit. Thus the poem merely implies that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.
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One of 2,500 copies. Bentley & Nurmi, 69.
"A facsimile in heliogravure of the Linnel-Rinder copy ... together with a typographical reprint of the text of the poem."
Original title-page reads: Jerusalem, the emanation of the giant Albion. Printed by W. Balke, 1804.
Bound in maroon cloth; stamped in gold; top edges gilt.
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