...cxcepted). I have written this Poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes (* The Jerusalem.) twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation,...nonexistent, and an immense Poem exists which seems to he the labour of a long life, all produced without labour or study. I mention this to show you what...

...Homer's 'Iliad' or Milton's ' Paradise Lost ; ' the persons and machinery entirely new to the inhabitants of earth. I have written this poem from immediate...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered nou-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long life, all produced...

...during the time of the lonely sea-shore life, to have been kindled into over-mastering intensity. ' I have written this poem from immediate dicta'tion,...'without premeditation, and even against my will; thus an 'immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long 'life, all produced without labour...

...been kindled into over-mastering intensity. ' I have written this poem from immediate dicta' tion, twelve, or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time...' without premeditation, and even against my will ; thus an ' immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long ' life, all produced without...

...secretary — the authors are in eternity." In an earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." The Jerusalem and the Milton are the last of the " Prophetic Books," properly to be so called, that ever...

...spiritual presences. ' I have written this poem from immediate dictation,' he wrote, of 'Jerusalem,' 'twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time...nonexistent, and an immense poem exists which seems the labour of a long life, all produced without labour or study.' It is not possible in a short essay...

...secretary — the authors are in eternity." In au earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." The Jerusalem and the Milton are the laat of the " Prophetic Books," properly to be so called, that ever...

...same expression in regard to its origin. " I have," he says, " written this poem — the Jerusalem — from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty...without premeditation, and even against my will." In another place he says : — " I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be other than the secretary...

...Lost ; the persons and machinery entirely new to inhabitants of earth, some of the persons excepted. I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...time without premeditation, and even against my will. I mention this to show you what I consider the grand reason of my being brought down here. I consider...

...nightly." — from a letter to bis friend, Butts. "I have written this poem (Milton and Jerusalem) from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty...without premeditation, and even against my will." — Letter to Butts. sons" is ranged in this fratricidal strife. When man shall gain the final victory,...