The ‘Secret’ Life of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence And of Experience , Copy J: Anthony Blunt, The Rothschilds and M.i.5 In The Cold War
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay investigates M.I.5’s telephone tapping in 1969 of Anthony Blunt’s conversations about his gifting to Emma Rothschild of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1795), Copy J. Blunt, Victor and Tess Rothschild had an agreement that Blunt would keep the book but bequeath it to Emma. M.I.5 suspected, wrongly, that the Rothschilds’ were extensions of the Cambridge Five spy ring. The essay draws on declassified documents in the National Archives.
Source: Visual Culture in Britain
Author: David Worrall
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408545641