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A review by bryce_is_a_librarian
The Complete Poems by William Blake
5.0
Blake is my favorite poet, and thus picking this up for a dollar at the Friends Of The Library sale was seven kinds of sweet.
I'm not a huge Poetry person, mostly because I have much use for an art form that (in modern poetry at least) is designed to conceal it's meaning. That's why I like the Romantics, they're not afraid to say it. And what they lose in subtlety they more then make up for in sheer language.
Plus the subject matter is always much more interesting in Romantism. Man's soul suspended in a hopeless abyss devoid of form and meaning and then rendering being into existence, is good stuff.
Once the Enlightenment hit it kind of took Poetry down with it, as "I Dare say perhaps we should move the corpses AWAY from the drinking water." might be good advice, but hardly makes for stirring verse.
I'm not a huge Poetry person, mostly because I have much use for an art form that (in modern poetry at least) is designed to conceal it's meaning. That's why I like the Romantics, they're not afraid to say it. And what they lose in subtlety they more then make up for in sheer language.
Plus the subject matter is always much more interesting in Romantism. Man's soul suspended in a hopeless abyss devoid of form and meaning and then rendering being into existence, is good stuff.
Once the Enlightenment hit it kind of took Poetry down with it, as "I Dare say perhaps we should move the corpses AWAY from the drinking water." might be good advice, but hardly makes for stirring verse.