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Little.Egret · 02-02-2018, 02:49 PM

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Jerusalem: England's National Anthem by David Boyle

‘Jerusalem’ has become one of the best-known poems in the English language.
And, set to music, has become the unofficial English national anthem.

But what is the story behind its strange words?
And how did it come to strike such a powerful chord with the nation, uniting left and right, republicans and monarchists alike?

Penned in 1804 by the radical poet William Blake, as he sat in a cramped room near London’s Oxford Street, it is a call for personal struggle to transform England into the paradise it was somehow meant to be.

But Blake had no idea that these few stanzas would hold such national importance two hundred years on.

Over 100 years after Blake wrote it, ‘Jerusalem’ was rediscovered, set to music by Sir Hubert Parry and used to whip up patriotic fervour during the First World War.

Since then, it has been sung by socialists and conservatives alike, by patriots and feminists and dreamers.

David Boyle is a British author and journalist who writes mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business and culture. His books include ‘Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma’, ‘Peace on Earth: The Christmas Truce of 1914’, ‘Unheard Unseen: Warfare in the Dardanelles’, ‘Towards the Setting Sun: The Race for America’ and ‘The Age to Come’.

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