Bruce Charlton's recent
piece on Albion Awakening about whether Albion is a woman got me thinking because I must admit I
hadn't been considering things along those lines. Not about whether Albion is
male or female but about the degree to which Albion is a person. I know the personification
of Albion in Blake's poems but that's, well, Blake! I also know the mythology
of a sleeping giant but I had really been thinking of Albion as the hidden
spirit of the land, without making that spirit into a person.
Continued here.
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