Island in the Moon, An
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Island in the Moon, An, an untitled burlesque fragment by
W. Blake, written
c.1784–5, first printed (though inaccurately) in 1907 by E. J. Ellis in
The Real Blake. It is a satirical portrait of scientific and cultural dilettantism and pretension, interspersed with songs (some of them bawdy).
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