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blake-123	Mertz, J. B.	The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas	2013		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	2506	89	53	The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas By J. B. Mertz J. B. Mertz (jeffrey_mertz@hotmail.com) is an adjunct professor of English at Lindenwood University. (Priestley’s Letters were not published until the second half of 1791, delayed several weeks by the mob’s burning of his home in Birmingham.)See Joseph Priestley, Letters to the Members of the New Jerusalem Church, Formed by Baron Swedenborg (Birmingham, 1791) iv-v. While Jon Mee has pointed out that Priestley’s “rationalism is often presented as making [him] irrelevant to Blake studies,”Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 6.	cache/blake-123.htm	txt/blake-123.txt