![]() ![]() It is perfectly written, as one would expect of the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, and succeeds on every level. ![]() ![]() Near where the chartered Thames does flowĪnd blights with plagues the marriage hearse.Īnd what is more, he is credibly depicted – an outspoken radical (he was a friend of Tom Paine’s) at a time when a breath of socialism or support for the revolution in France could cost one one’s life eccentric to the point of “madness” – in constant communication with his dead brother, and living in fact on two levels, in two worlds, simultaneously and very, very kind in a society where kindness seems to have been in extremely short supply.Ī poor family emigrate from a Devonshire village to London, and the story is of the two village children, Jem and his beautiful but totally naive and innocent sister, Maisie (a source of inspiration to Blake!) and her adorable streetwise counterpart, Maggie, the local London girl who befriends Jem and tries to protect Maisie. (This and several other poems crop up quite naturally in the course of the story.) ![]() If, like me, you have always been fascinated and thrilled by the poems and pictures of William Blake, you will be delighted with this book, for it is set in his London and he plays quite a major role in it. ![]()
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