Chariots

Andrew Clarke Walser awalse1 at icarus.cc.uic.edu
Thu May 22 09:28:45 CDT 1997


	That line from Blake about the "Chariot of fire" seems to me a
reference to the "Chariot of Paternal Deity" in Milton's PARADISE LOST,
which comes

	Flashing thick flames, Wheel within Wheel, undrawn . . .
						(6.751)

	Milton based his chariot, in turn, on the vision of Ezekiel, or so
a footnote informs me.

				Andrew Walser
		 	 University of Illinois-Chicago



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