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This evening I read my paper on Blake to the Lit. Soc.—rather a hurried compilation guaranteed not to extend beyond twenty minutes. But, in the short time at my disposal to get up as much of Blake as is in Rossetti’s Selections and write a paper on him, I have become very keen indeed upon him. I think some of his later poems that I have never come across before, such as The Mental Traveller and Uriel and the short extracts from the Prophetic Books in verse upon the building of Jerusalem in England, are quite the finest things I have ever read. I borrowed from one of the ushers that copy of selections that Kenneth has got in a luminous purple binding, and I think that Raleigh’s introduction to it does nothing approaching justice to him. And I can’t make out why all English anthologies only give pieces from his slightly ingle-neuk earlier works (if they give any extracts from Blake at all) instead of his much more powerful later ravings. I wish you would read that Mental Traveller (it is in Raleigh’s selection) if you have not read it before, for it seems to me quite the finest allegory there could possibly be. But it needs to be read considerably more than once.