Silly Willy

Jonathan Bate

  • William Blake: His Life by James King
    Weidenfeld, 263 pp, £25.00, March 1991, ISBN 0 297 81160 6

To write well about William Blake you need to be enthusiastic, aphoristic and contrary. It also helps to be slightly mad. You need to begin your book with a paragraph like this:

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