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Stranger from Paradise
an opera based on the lives and works of William and Catherine Blake 2600:1011:B322:68F6:0:25:1888:FF01 (talk) 04:00, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Visions
'Blake's sanity was called into question as recently as the publication of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, whose entry on Blake comments that "the question whether Blake was or was not mad seems likely to remain in dispute, but there can be no doubt whatever that he was at different periods of his life under the influence of illusions for which there are no outward facts to account, and that much of what he wrote is so far wanting in the quality of sanity as to be without a logical coherence".'
Was not that a polite, but brilliant, way of saying that Blake was as Mad as a Hatter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:27A1:5401:50C0:DD50:3F4:827E (talk) 19:22, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes. Views on mental health were very different in 1911. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:34, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
"19th century" "free love" link
talks about the 1960's, so it should be "20th century" ~2025-41140-32 (talk) 04:53, 16 December 2025 (UTC)