Did you know Blake taught his wife
to read & write? Illiteracy & truth
spend as much time together as James & Nora Joyce. Meaning must
be an alchemical process. It looks like it happens all the time but does it?
Alot of the time what passes for meaning, for a strike, is actually a gutterball. Metaphors are artful
glosses over stuff that just seems too complicated to spell out. Blake was very wary of metaphor & tweaked his poems for truth not beauty. Maybe that's why the Times can't quite stomach him wholly.William Harmon is my favorite living poet.
His homepage links to a handwriting sample of Laura Riding Jackson explaining Blake.
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- frank 4-13-2001 12:45 am