08-12-2020, 06:51 AM
(08-12-2020, 03:43 AM)busker Wrote:Oh come on, saying Blake is just historical... how edgy :d Without Blake we'd be all sucking our thumbs. And to reduce his paintings to "pictures"? Well, you write anything half as good and paint anything half as good and I'll defer to your genius. But from what I've read of you it's mediocre at best. And you can have an opinion. but it's wrong.(08-12-2020, 03:37 AM)Exit Wrote:By that yardstick, Arthur Conan Doyle must be the pre-eminent Victorian literary figure, ahead of Browning or Hopkins...(08-12-2020, 03:19 AM)busker Wrote: 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.