"Damn braces. Bless relaxes." William Blake

Abstract: (8 pp) Did it ever happen while you were growing up, that someone would say -it is an "acquired taste." It meant that supposedly when you got "big," you would really like whatever it was. In our family the three items that wee given that label were coffee, scotch and avocadoes; and in some aspects the sage old advice was right, - at least I like two out of three now. I mention this, because it seems for some, William Blake (1757 - 1827) as an English romantic poet, falls somewhat in the same category. In this discussion we will examine one of his "Proverbs of Hell," from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93), and make the effort to acquire a "taste" for Blake. Bibliography lists 3 sources)

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Subcatagory: Poetry

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