What I find so teasingly difficult to explain is that despite being so different there is some shared aesthetic value between them that I cannot quite pin down in words.

Perhaps their strong geometric undertones and a certain muscularity in them.

The protagonist is William Blake - boards a train to the town of Machine.

The Milton prints, Songs of Innocence, plus the illustrations of the Book of Revelations were pre-Romantic steel engravings.

I regard Blake to be this anti-positivist character in the 19th century.

Anti-Kant, anti-Newton.