[4]'With an air of feebleness' crossed out.
[5]After 'indifference and' 'the entire absence of anything like blame ['reproach' crossed out], and I do not think that I ever heard him blame anything, then or afterwards crossed out.
[6]'Pretty much' crossed out.
[7]'Comparing these fragmentary memoranda' crossed out.
[8]Crossed out:
'Yet this did not appear to affect the truth of his Visions. I could not reconcile this with his blaming Wordsworth for being a Platonist—not a Christian. He asked whether Wordsworth acknowledged the Scriptures as Divine, and declared on my answering in the affirmative that the Introduction to the Excursion had troubled him so as to bring on a fit of illness. The passage that offended Blake was:
'Jehovah with his thunder and the choir
Of shouting Angels and the empyreal throne,
I pass them unalarmed.
"Does Mr. Wordsworth," said Blake, "think his mind can surpass Jehovah's." I tried in vain to rescue Wordsworth from the imputation of being a Pagan or perhaps an Atheist, but this did not rob him of the character of being the great poet. Indeed Atheism meant but little in Blake's mind as will hereafter appear. Therefore when he declared Dante to be an Atheist, etc.'
In the margin: See of Wordsworth as Blake judged of him, p. 46 et seq. (i.e. "1826, 27/2/52," below.)
[9]'Dante saw Devils where I saw none' crossed out.