{"id":2648,"date":"2020-06-13T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shardcore.org\/shardpress2019\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:29:28","slug":"when-klopstock-england-defied-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shardcore.org\/spx\/2020\/06\/13\/when-klopstock-england-defied-william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"When Klopstock England Defied – William Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

William Blake<\/a> seems all the rage at the moment. The ‘artist\/poet\/visionary’ thing has a universal appeal and tends to resonate throughout the generations. I shan’t go into details of his biography, I’ll leave that to my friend John Higgs<\/a>, who has just written a magnum opus about him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Unfortunately that’s not getting published until next year, so in the meantime, I recommend his “short, breezy book of 15,000 words” from last year, William Blake Now<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, filmmaker Nick Driftwood<\/a> put out a call for people to read Blake poems for a project he is developing. I asked John if he knew of any juicy obscure Blake poems I could use, and he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to perform that poem where Blake is taking a dump in his garden and spins round to shit-curse some German, then I’ll dig it out for you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I obviously said yes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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