…engaged in somewhat excitedly explaining to people the character of new environments and new strategies of culture necessary to cope with them. Blake is an extreme case of a man who was absolutely panicked by the kind of new environment that he saw forming…

…good deal, iconic. I think we'd better be clear what you mean by that. I think of it, again, to tie in with Blake, his whole insistence upon the engraved the highly patterned and highly sculptured forms and images. The iconic in that sense is very low…

…is also a double point of view, isn't it? Yeah. Inside, outside, yeah. Yeah. Too much of a beauty. You've got Dryden, Blake, Yeats. That's too little. No, I'm just going through them, Charles. Yeah. Well, Chaucer, we've sort of done. We've set a standard…

…about railroads and the way they affected our environment and have related to the nostalgia for a previous environment. I think Blake wrote Jerusalem in 1805 and that the first railway in England was founded in 1832. Now, let's notice that the industrial…

…steel production in England, for instance, you'll find that they're totally insignificant. Ah, well, I understand exactly what you meant. Blake began to respond to these environments while they were relatively new. I think you'll find, for example, that Seurat…

…an indication of huge social changes ahead. The artist is always 50 years at least ahead of any engineer or technician. Give Blake, allow him 50 years if you like, but for heaven's sake, he had prophetic and prescient power. And that's the value of…