Felpham
Proper noun
Meaning
Felpham
A large suburban village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9500).
Examples
Amanda Gilroy argues that the poem is informed by Blake's "evident pleasure" in the Felpham countryside. citation The phrase "green and pleasant land" has become a collocation for identifiably English landscape or society.
However, Blake's relationship with Flaxman seems to have grown more distant after Blake's return from Felpham, and there are surviving letters between Flaxman and Hayley wherein Flaxman speaks ill of Blake's theories of art.
Blake’s feet walked in Felpham.
"Green and pleasant Land" Blake lived in London for most of his life, but wrote much of Milton while living in the village of Felpham in Sussex.
Later life and career The cottage in Felpham where Blake lived from 1800 until 1803.