Word: blakes
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Anthologies serve as our means of determining the representative poets of an age. Of course Lonsdale's edition still includes the poetry of the most renowned eighteenth century poets such as Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake. Yet the new edition also includes a wealth of posey from more obscure pens. Included in Lonsdale's volume are poems from people of all walks of life including women peasants, and the always elusive Anonymous. The anthology offers a more representative sampling of poems--Lonsdale includes 230 to Smith's 137--and a better feeling for the people of the time...
...popular nighttime soap opera, Dynasty, ended last week's episode with typical edge-of-the-seat melodrama. In a scuffle aboard a private plane, Blake Carrington and Daniel Reece (John Forsythe and Rock Hudson) accidentally knocked the pilot unconscious, sending their craft hurtling toward the ; mountains below. Their fate, in the manner of TV cliffhangers, rested in the hands of the network...
Crimson: You have written about William Blake in earlier works and said he influenced you then. Does he still have that affect...
...sake, purely literary. But literary means a lot of different things. There is an old saying by Plato or Pythagoras, "when the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake." Or, what [William Carlos] Williams said, "the new world is only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this has a fallout. It changes the way people relate...
Ginsberg: Blake is always an inspiration. I once made a recording of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake turned me on to the voice in poetry. I once had an interesting psychedelic experience, without drugs, while reading Blake. It was an auditory hallucination of his voice pronouncing "the sunflower and the sick rose." Years later I began working with that to extrapolate tunes and melodies from those tones. I tried to reconstruct what it sounded like when Black orignally sand those words...