[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...

Yeah when your shitty poems are still being refered to after 250 years I think Blake will take it on the chin.

By that yardstick, Arthur Conan Doyle must be the pre-eminent Victorian literary figure, ahead of Browning or Hopkins...