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VISIONARY POET BLAKE REMEMBERED

21 September 2011

By Daryl Anderson

PECKHAM ISN’T the first London dwelling that springs to mind when one envisages angels swinging from trees; especially in light of the recent riots that hit the area not much longer than a month ago. However, this is the vision that Romantic poet William Blake saw when he made his journey to the then Surrey village in 1765.

Blake was a great server of the arts with heavy involvement in painting, printmaking and most notably poetry, with a large influence on the Romantic Movement of the late 18th century. In a literary movement that was revolutionary at the time, it is no wonder that Blake’s mind enabled him to see, ‘A tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.’ 

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