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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
please help me understand the meaning of charter'd in the blake context
reading between the lines it seems regulatory and political, but that's just a guess
Charter'd means the streets are laid out in a pattern, or at least that's what my old poetry teacher said.
But it does seem to fit with was, for Blake, the horrors of the industrial revolution. The church and the state are both guilty of explotation. Chimney sweeps were young boys, no more than seven or eight years old, who could fit in chimneys.
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