I want to talk about Blake. It’s not easy to tackle him though.
It is simply not easy to understand him. Atypical romanticist, artisan, engraver, poet, he was a writer of multitudinous talents, though one might say less understood in his own time than in retrospect, and more difficult to pigeon hole than – say – Wordsworth or Coleridge. He was different: a middle class writer, a skilled craftsman, …
