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Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand? - William Blake Attribution: William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Holy Thursday (l. 1–4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

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Encyclopedia:

• Blake, William (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)
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• Blake, William (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• William Blake (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• William Blake (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• William Blake (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
• William Blake (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)

Literary Criticism:

• Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, William Blake (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake (Poetry)
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