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About 2 1/2 years ago, I wrote a post mentioning John Higgs's biography of William Blake, saying that I couldn't call my post a "book review" because I hadn't read it yet. I have read it since, and it's a wonderful book. I highly recommend this book for anyone who's interested in exploring the roots… Continue reading A Book Review: William Blake Verus The World, by John Higgs
I can't review it, because I haven't read it yet. But I'm charmed by a lengthy excerpt which the author himself has posted on Lapham's Quarterly. It's the story of an unlikely friendship that developed towards the end of Blake's life, and one which reminds me--as do so many biographies and vignettes of eighteenth century… Continue reading Not A Book Review: William Blake Verus The World, by John Higgs