6 jun 1780 año - Blake participates in Gordon Riots

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The poet William Blake, aged 23, was in "the front rank" of the crowd of 40,000-60,000 people who stormed and destroyed Newgate Prison on June 6th 1780.

"In 'America' Blake describes the spirit of rebellion as crossing the Atlantic to Great Britain and inspiring, particularly in London and Bristol, open demonstrations against the war, which temporarily deranged the guardians of the status quo and hastened the coming of peace. Amid 'fires of hell' and 'burning winds driven by flames' of revolution:
'The millions sent up a howl of anguish and threw off their hammer'd mail,
And cast their swords & spears to earth, & stood a naked multitude.'"

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