“Jerusalem” — A Century Of Struggle Over The Meaning Of England’s Great Patriotic Hymn

Among the causes for which Hubert Parry’s stirring setting of William Blake’s poem has been enlisted (or co-opted): wartime patriotism, women’s suffrage, English nationalism, the post-World War II welfare state, imperial nostalgia, mocking satire, marketing the film Chariots of Fire, the Falklands War, anti-Thatcher… Read entire story.

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