![]() In issue #16 (July 2, 2020) of peace, love, happiness & understanding, I included three poems by Blake: “Infant Joy,” “Laughing Song,” and “The School Boy.” These poems illustrated the theme of innocence and experience that I was exploring in that issue-especially how we lose the innocence of our childhood, and the question of whether we can regain that lost innocence ![]() As a prophet, he saw himself as in the tradition of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jesus, John of Patmos, Dante and Milton. In the English poetic tradition, he saw himself as part of a tradition that included Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton. He is a Christian, but his Christianity is unique to him. His paintings, drawings and etchings are enshrined in museums around the world. Along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, he is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. William Blake might be the most imaginative person who ever lived. I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s. ![]()
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