In several sections Blake sets out to delineate a conception of good and evil in opposition to Swedenborg.

The daughters of Albion is another name for the women of England.

Blake develops a mythical narrative that was fully enacted in his later prophetic books. The name "Thel" possibly derives from the Greek word for "wish" or "will" and may be intended to suggest the failure of desire, because of timidity, to fulfill itself.

Perhaps the most well known of the poetry of William Blake of the Romantic Era.

About William Blake and his life. Also, Blake's Mythmaking. Poems: All Religions Are One and There Is No Natural Religion.

The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cobbett and Mary Prince.

From the section on The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition, selections from Olaudah Equiano (ca. 1745-1797) "Written by Himself" and Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith "The Sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro Woman's Lamentation."

From the section The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition comes the work of Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) and William Cowper (1731-1800). Clarkson describes the physical details of the trade in slaves and Cowper distributed a poem "The Negro's Complaint".

The Slave Trade and the Literature of Abolition. John Newton and his poem "Faith's Review and Expectation" (Amazing Grace).

Biography..."January 1795", "London's Summer Morning", "The Poor Singing Dame*, "The Haunted Beach", "The Poet's Garret", "To the Poet Coleridge", "The Savage of Aveyron."