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Originally posted by Elanor:
I hadn't considered it before, but I can see a similarity. Blake was also a lover of nature, and was mistrustful of the Industrial Revolution.
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That's right, but Blake lived in the 19th Century, right in the middle of the Industrial Revolution. His mistrust of the changes around him made him a militant. Tolkien adopting the same point of view more than one century later had of course a different resonance. The battle had already been lost: Tolkien was longing for a world that did not exist anymore.
02-02-2002, 03:27 PM
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