Tag Archives: "Holy Thursday"

Blake on Racism and Child Abuse

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2024

Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” quoted by Lamott in her latest book, is a complex exploration of racism.

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Our Country, a Land of Poverty

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2023

Blake calls out those who claim to be Christians while mistreating the poor.

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Children’s Choirs, Vienna’s and Blake’s

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2019

Wednesday Last Friday I was able to see in person the Vienna Children’s choir, which previously I knew only from their recordings. As I listened to the high, pure voices in Sewanee’s cathedral-like All Saints Chapel, I thought of William Blake’s “Holy Thursday” from Songs of Innocence. The poem has some of Blake’s characteristic irony, […]

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Blake on Bible-Citing Politicians

By Robin Bates | Published: June 17, 2018

William Blake would strenuously oppose Jeff Sessions Immigration policies.

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The Evangelical Rose Is Sick

By Robin Bates | Published: November 19, 2017

Many rightwing evangelicals are selling their souls for Trumpism. William Blake would have something to say about that.

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Cherish the Angel at Your Door

By Robin Bates | Published: September 29, 2013

William Blake’s “Holy Thursday” poems challenges those members of Congress voting to cut food stamps.

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