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Jerusalem - Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness (Hardcover)
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Jerusalem - Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness (Hardcover)
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The stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most
famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William
Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916 and renamed,
'Jerusalem', this hymn has become an emblem of Englishness in the
past century, and is regularly invoked at sporting events, public
and private ceremonies, and, of course, as part of Last Night of
the Proms. Yet when Blake first engraved his lines in his epic
work, Milton a Poem, he had been tried for sedition. Likewise,
although Parry was commissioned to compose his music as part of the
war effort by the organization Fight for Right, he soon removed
permission for that group to perform his hymn and instead gave the
copyright to the women's suffrage movement. 'Jerusalem', then, is a
much more contested vision of England's green and pleasant land
than is often assumed. This book traces the history of the poem and
the music from Blake's original verses, written in Felpham, via the
turmoil of the First and Second World Wars, its recording history
in the late twentieth century, and its use in political
controversies such as the 2016 Brexit vote. An anthem for both the
left and the right, Blake's own vision of what it meant to build
Jerusalem in England is both strange and familiar to many who
invoke it. As such, this book explores the deep complexities of
what Englishness means into the twenty-first century.
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