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In adapting Blake's poem as a unison song, Parry deployed a two-stanza format, each taking up eight lines of Blake's original poem. He added a four-bar musical introduction to each verse and a coda, echoing melodic motifs of the song. The word "those" was substituted for "these" before "dark satanic mills".
In adapting William Blake's poem into the hymn "Jerusalem," Sir Hubert Parry quite definitely changed the line "these dark Satanic mills" to "those dark Satanic mills," as is noted here. Is anyone sure why? Have any literary critics (or musicologists?) taken a crack at what the rationale behind the change was?
Blake himself made it clear that the `Dark Satanic Mills' were Lambeth Palace and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the chief founts of Orthodox C-of-E doctrine which he, of course, refuted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:B685:5E00:E126:2862:472C:6430 ( talk ) 16:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC) [ reply ]
William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
Albion Mills was a steam-powered flour mill situated on the southeastern side of Blackfriars Bridge in northern Southwark, London, then in the parish of Christchurch, Surrey. [1] Matthew Boulton began plans for the mill as early as 1783; [ 2 ] it was completed in 1786, and gutted by fire in 1791.
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The next verse alludes to "And did those feet in ancient time", an early 19th-century poem by William Blake that a young Sting would likely have studied in grammar school, later adapted into the Anglican hymn, "Jerusalem", in describing the nuclear plants as "dark satanic mills [that] have made redundant all our mining skills".
Blake Lee (born August 31, 1983) is an American actor, known for his roles on Mixology, [1] Parks and Recreation and the Freeform hit Cruel Summer. Blake and his husband Ben Lewis made history starring in The Christmas Setup , Lifetime's first Christmas movie centered around a gay love story.