enough to believe that revolution and the overthrow of the British throne was also a possibility. In his unpublished poem The French Revolution the belief that the power of kings had to be withdrawn comes through. The overthrowing of monarchy was an essential task in Blake's opinion and in the poem about the revolution, Blake "demonstrates that any step taken in behalf of freedom is a step toward the perfect liberty of Eternity" (Paananen 69). Even though that poem was "written when constitutional monarchy was still the most probable eventuality for France," Blake's politics were strictly republican (Erdman 164).
But since that poem was not published Blake was not in communication with his true audience, "the fraternity of citizens for whom and of whom he wrote" (Erdman 153). This encouraged the tendency t
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