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A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BLAKE
The Songs of Innocence and Experience rocked my world from a very early age. Christian mystic, poet , artists and renaissance man, William Blake (d. 1827) captures darkness and light with such poignancy, truth and humanity. He is a radical visionary, who like many a great beings, are considered mad by their contemporaries. Blake has deservedly grown in popularity long after his death Which speak to the nature of the Arts being a great immortal.
A committed Christian whose work leans heavily on the Bible, Blake was hostile to the Church of England and , indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion. I love that the 19th-century scholar William Michael Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary", and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors". Exactly.
This is one of my favorite poems from the illuminated William Blake:
The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns,
were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.