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Title
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But You are Learn'd
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Student Commentary:
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This illustration from Edward Young’s Night-Thoughts (2005 facsimile) is for Night V (page 44 in the intended publication). The image is of a man in blue surrounded by numerous books, with a pile in front of him, which he is leaning upon, and a bookshelf behind him. The line Blake is illustrating is marked, “But you are learn’d; in Volumes deep you sit.” An owl, representing learning or wisdom, is perched at the top of the text, and some of the books' authors can be made out: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Plutarch.
