So what are we to make of Blake's "Jerusalem"?

[RFCalifornia]

[TygrBright]

1. Perhaps that the voices for social justice have a long history?

It's something Bob Dylan would have written, had he been around in 1808, when the only public assistance available was workhouses and debtor's prisons, the workday in those "dark Satanic Mills" was a full twelve hours, and children toiled in the pits at collieries and were treated worse than draft animals.

Parry's setting of it does it musical justice.

But that's just my opinion.

What do you make of it?

curiously,
Bright

[vanlassie]

2. I think one might need to have grown up in England

to tolerate listening to it more than once.

[viva la]

3. I love it.

Yank anglophile. It is a very weird anthem, dark satanic mills and so on.

[Tomconroy]

4. Nice music. Certainly Anglo-centric words..Everyone in

England (as opposed to Britain) has it memorized. It's basically the English Anthem.

[Scrivener7]

5. Dan Brown made a fortune out of it!

[Earth-shine]

6. These guys did it better.