In the Songs of Experience, William Blake contrasted the ‘soft deceitful wiles’ of enmity and jealousy (A Poison Tree), and the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ constraining the … Read more
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Virgil’s Eclogues
William Faithorne, Tityrus and Meliboeus (Virgil’s First Eclogue), after Francis Cleyn, 1654, engraving. Inscription: Tityre patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi, / Silvetrem tenui musam … Read more