1. An echo perhaps of Charles Wesley’s paraphrase of the Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 45: ‘My heart is full of Christ/Its glorious matter to declare.’ See John R. Watson, The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study (Oxford, 1999), 233.
2. See Jennifer Jesse, William Blake’s Religious Vision: There’s a Methodism in His Madness (New York, 2013), 217–239 (223).
3. See Andrew Lincoln, ‘Restoring the Nation to Christianity: Blake and the Aftermyth of Revolution’ in Steve Clark and David Worall, eds., Blake, Nation and Empire (Basingstoke, 2006), 153–66 (153).
4. For the view that Blake underwent a religious conversion see Morton D. Paley, Apocalypse & Millennium in English Romantic Poetry (Oxford, 2003), 70. For a more cautious and sceptical view see
5. Jean Hagstrum, ‘“The Wrath of the Lamb”: A Study of William Blake’s Conversions’ in Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom, eds., From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays for F. A. Pottle (Oxford, 1965). See also