...applied to the wrong person. Burnet would not have so compromised himself to Bolingbroke. July 2^th. — Late at C. Lamb's. Found a large party there. Southey...The prelude represents a poor manager in distress. He is assailed by a bailiff, and, leading him to a trap-door, forces him down. Sheridan looked on,...

...diffidence that is usual with such people & did not seem to expect that he shd. be believed. He shewed S[outhey] a perfectly mad poem called "Jerusalem. Oxford Street is in Jerusalem. II. 1812. May 24 ... I read W[ordsworth] some of Blake's poems ; he was pleased with some of them &...

...designs and his poetic talents. . . . Blake, he says, spoke of his visions with the diffidence that is usual with such people, and did not seem to expect that he should be believed." Wordsworth told Robinson in 1812 that he "regarded Blake as having in him the elements of poetry much...

...labours at Felpham, which I shall soon publish." In 1811, according to Henry Crabb Robinson, Blake showed Southey "a perfectly mad poem, called Jerusalem. Oxford Street is in Jerusalem." In 1 820 "Janus Weathercock" (TG Wainwright) referred in the London Magazine to "a tremendous piece...

...his visions with the diffidence that is usual with such people & did not seem to expect that he shd. be believed. He showed S[outhey] a perfectly mad poem called Jerusalem. Oxford Street is in Jerusalem. No more severe intelligence test could be devised than the casual introduction of Jerusalem at afternoon...

...was not reciprocated. Within the year of his Indian romance's publication, Southey visited Blake who "showed Southey a perfectly mad poem called Jerusalem — Oxford Street is in Jerusalem" (Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers, ed. Edith J. Morley [London: Dent, 1938], I, 41)....

...escaped."32 Crabb Robinson refers to a similar bewilderment on the reader's part when he reports that Blake "showed S[outhey] a perfectly mad poem called Jerusalem — Oxford Street is in Jerusalem."113 The queries and protests are answered with a verbal "plan" of Golgonooza, in which the...

...fluttering branches of a tree beyond a wall. HENRY CRABB ROBINSON'S Diary IV 1811. "July 24/A. — Late at C. Lamb's. Found a large party there. Southey...called "Jerusalem". Oxford Street is in Jerusalem. December 5th. — Accompanied Mrs Rutt to Coleridge's lecture. In this he surpassed himself in talking...