When NYT columnist David Brooks called Ted Cruz “dark and satanic,” he was referencing a Blake poem. But although the allusion is apt, it struck most people as weird or offensive because they didn’t recognize the source.
William Blake spoke to protesters in the 1960s but that is far from his only audience. A recent “New York Review of Books” articles surveys his greatness.
Swimming with my granddaughters put me in mind of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies.” Kingsley helped us enter into the rich imaginative lives of children.
Blake’s poem “Pentecost” explains what is necessary to experience the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Faced with an infestation of pantry moths, my mind turned to Blake’s “The Sick Rose.”
Blake’s “Clod and the Pebble” warn us to steer between two opposite dangers in our relationships.
William Blake’s “Holy Thursday” poems challenges those members of Congress voting to cut food stamps.
Pope Francis ! might well embrace the vision of love found in Blake’s “Divine Image.”
