1. Some scholars have even argued that Blake was a hypermedia artist. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are not only two poetic cycles connected to each other, with a poem relating to youth and innocence, and a complementary one to age and experience, but they also contain additional images and textual passages that thread together in ways similar to linked content in a modern hypermedia document.
2. Albion is the ancient name for Britain. In Blake’s mythology, it also represented the “cosmic man,” the being who splinters through space-time, falls from grace, and yearns for unity in a new Jerusalem.
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