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Morton D Paley
2) The last man
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Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Description
It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.
Author
Series
Blake's illuminated books volume 1
Publisher
William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Jerusalem, the longest of Blake's illuminated epic poems, aims to sum up his entire religious and artistic philosophy. Blake's own mythological characters, including Jerusalem and Albion (female and male manifestations of the human spirit who long to be united again) and Los (a manifestation of artistic imagination), join a cast that includes, Jesus, John Newton and others. Blake expounds on matters scientific, spiritual and sexual in a poem that...
