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Internet Resources for London

An interesting article about Blake from The Guardian 4 March 2007
The invisible worm

London from Wikipedia

A complete analysis of the poem from BBC Bitesize

A very good lecture which thows light on every possible feature in the poem

A detailed stylistic analysis of London

A fine site featuring a few interesting lectures on London: Dr. Jonas Prida on William Blake's 'London'

An article with a slightly different view on William Blake's London

William Blake's London at the Norton Antology of Poetry

Lethargica play London by Blake

William Blake - London

I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper's cry
Every black'ning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born Infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.