Tag Archives: William Blake

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

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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What Is Eating Away at America?

Wednesday What does it mean to have a Russian asset as president, if the FBI’s suspicions (as reported by the New York Times) turn out to be correct. Perhaps William Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose” captures the situation. In that instance, the Rose would be the American republic, which is sick despite its high ideals […]

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Imagining Little Ocean’s Future

Looking for the literary significance of my latest grandchild, I turn to Walcott, Whitman, Masefield, Coleridge, and Byron. What emerges is a mystical seeker.

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Welcome Stranger to This Place

The story of Jesus healing an unclean gentile reminds us all to welcome the stranger. Blake shows us the heaven that awaits when we do.

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When School Drives All Joy Away

School has already begun in some states, bringing to mind Blake’s lament about school in summer.

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Blake on Trump’s Breast-Feeding Attack

With yet another Trumpian attack on poor children, I turn once again to William Blake.

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Blake on Bible-Citing Politicians

William Blake would strenuously oppose Jeff Sessions Immigration policies.

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When Science Clips an Angel’s Wings

Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins disagrees with Keats and Poe in their attacks on science. I think he loses the argument.

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Nature Lit Has Healed for Centuries

For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.

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