From the Writers Almanac

[onlinepastor]

Happy Birthday Bill Blake!"It's the birthday of William Blake, (books by this author) born in London (1757). He wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). He lived in poverty, ignorant of the rest of the literary world of London, scraping out a living from his trade as an engraver, and writing and

Comments

[el_diablo1]

I haven't read much of William Blake (Tiger, tiger, burning bright...), but you gotta love a guy like THIS!!

[onlinepastor]

as I told John, were Blake alive today I think he'd be a punk rocker.

[seeker101]

Dreams are good. Visions too are not bad.

[onlinepastor]

William Blake has always struck me as eternally contemporary. So what if he's from the 18th century I believe twere he born today he'd be a punk rocker.