idk 'no worries ๐ซ thanks for the update ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ซ ' has potential
oh god and that's not even going into the Iseult Gonne relationship ๐ฌ
so true ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
the signs of his future politics are there even earlier if you're looking for them
I like Yeats as much as the next Celticist, but I do think politicians quoting him on order and anarchy etc. should remember what his politics had become by the 1930s...
Richard Cosway, Portrait of a Gentleman, his Wife and Sister, in the Character of Fortitude introducing Hope as the Companion to Distress (โThe Witts Family Groupโ), 1775 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1128807
fantastic talk by David Worrall for @globalblake.bsky.social last night on 'William Blake's Visions', neuroscience, synaesthesia & neurodiversity. It's based on his new book with Palgrave (same title). my favourite quote: 'we've never had a healthy Blake'. So true of early Blake studies