416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)
The History of Literature
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Is Blake a Madman?
I feel like when i i read his writings and and see his works, i get the impression that blake must have been an angry street prophet or some kind of madman who was constantly being misunderstood. But that sounds like i had a misconception. Well, no, not exactly. I mean, that certainly a an accurate ad valid part of how blake came across therare a lot of pens. And he was always enough getig into arguments and fights with pople for reasons they didn't understand in any way shap eform. His mental health wasn't the best at this point, was that there was a definite sort of paranoid edged t him during this sort of period.
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