William Blake’s Prints Tapped the Power of a Wild Mind

William Blake’s Prints Tapped the Power of a Wild Mind

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“A wild pet for the supercultivated,” as T.S. Eliot called him, is only half the story of William Blake (1757-1827), a poet who is more famous for his influence on certain moderns (Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith) than actually read. Blake combined extremes: rambling incantations about…

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