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The Poet in the Poem: Blake’s Milton
- Studies in Philology
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 112, Number 2, Spring 2015
- pp. 379-413
- 10.1353/sip.2015.0014
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William Blake inserts himself both in the text and the illustrations of his illuminated book Milton as he does in no other of his works. This essay examines these instances of self-inclusion and argues that they serve as self-corrections within the overt function of the poem as a correction of John Milton.