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Blake's letter to Butts (1802): 'Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; 'Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah's night And twofold Always. May God us keep From Single vision & Newton's sleep!' Neville's reading: single vision is ordinary sight, the thing and nothing more; twofold sees everything as a symbol ('with my inward eye 'tis an old man grey'); threefold blends images so that they bear offspring; fourfold steps into the image and finds it as solid and real as this world.
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Letter to Butts, 1802 | now I a fourfold vision see, and a fourfold vision is given to me; ’tis fourfold in my supreme delight, and threefold in soft Beulah’s night, and twofold always. May God us keep from single vision and Newton’s sleep
Letter to Butts, 1802 | with my inward eye, it’s an old man gray