Poems Av William Blake

<p><b>''Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled'' William Blake</b><br><b><br> Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake''s poems, including the complete poems from <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience.</i></b><br><br>William Blake is one of Britain''s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps.</p>