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SEEING THINGS

REVIEW: John Higgs: William Blake vs the World, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2021.

First published in the Dublin Review of Books, October 2021

                      John Higgs                  William Blake

England's national poet? AND
The importance of living in Brighton

'Single vision and Newton's sleep' AND
What is meant by 'vision'?

What is meant by 'imagination'? AND
Materialism and Idealism

Making allowances AND
Atoms and particles of light

How to see the earth AND
'Nature' and the matrix

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