[split] Blake discussion

[busker]

And how dare you say Blake is anything but a genius! If it weren't for Blake life would be unbearable. :*

His 'songs' are part of the collective unconscious or subconscious or what have you. I find myself reciting 'The Fly' and 'The Rose' from time to time. Genuinely brilliant. But his longer poems are unreadable, like the versified ramblings of a Christian Mehdi Hasan. That's why he had to include pictures of naked people in them, to give the reader something to do on the Omnibus...