Wednesday, 28. November 2007
Topic: ART - on November 28, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM CET
An everyman's mystic
From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts?
William Blake was a bit of a nutter, to employ the vernacular of a recent prime minister.
Or at least so some of his contemporaries suspected. While possibly falling short of diagnosable mental illness, there was always a degree of suspicion over a man who supposedly claimed to have seen an angel in a tree in Peckham Rye.
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