All Purls. No Swine.
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 probably won't make them today, owing to some leftover dreaded lurgy from a bout of something approaching pneumonia, but they, and a number of other family Easter traditions are in my thoughts. From Ricochet, four Good Fridays' ago now: Hot Cross Buns! A Good Friday tradition I don’t always adhere to but which, for… Continue reading “One a penny, two a penny…Hot Cross Buns!” And a Bit more Good Friday Randomness
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