On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary

While awaiting his execution, an imprisoned man weaves a tale of mutiny, piracy, and attempted utopia.

This edition includes almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.

Poetry.

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