A reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different social and political factions, both left and right, have sought to impose their own meaning on building Jerusalem Cover -- Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Arrows of Desire -- Why Jerusalem? -- Understanding 'Jerusalem' -- 'Jerusalem' and the Nation State -- 1: And Did Those Feet?: Blake and Milton, 1800-1827 -- Felpham and the Trial of William Blake -- Writing Milton and Jerusalem -- The Preface to Milton a Poem -- 2: Our Clouded Hills: Before 'Jerusalem', 1827-1915 -- 'Shifting under our feet': Milton and the Victorians -- The Prelude to Parry -- The Spirit of Man -- 3: Mental Fight: Parry, the Great War, and its Aftermath, 1916-1922 -- Composing 'Jerusalem' -- Fight for Right -- Millicent Fawcett and the Suffragettes -- 4: Dark Satanic Mills: Peace and War, 1923-1945 -- Congregations and Communities -- More than Jam and Jerusalem -- Pomp and Pageantry -- Socialism and Nationalism -- 'Jerusalem' and the Second World War -- 5: Bring Me My Bow: Empire's End, 1945-1976 -- Building Jerusalem -- Empire Days and the Proms -- Popular Culture and Mass Media -- 'Jerusalem' on Screen -- 6: Chariot of Fire: Thatcher's Britain and the End of the Cold War, 1977-1996 -- England's Dreaming -- The British are Coming: Chariots of Fire and Thatcherism -- The New Age -- 7: Green and Pleasant Land -- From Blair to Brexit, 1997-2016 -- A Funeral, Two Weddings, and a Jubilee -- This Sporting Life -- Artistic Responses -- England! Awake! Awake! Awake! -- Epilogue: Albion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index | 
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