A review by cmcrockford
Blake by Peter Ackroyd

4.0

Super biography even if its almost too quick at 369 pages to capture the fullness of the Man. I can see myself in Blake - his changeability, pride, permanent place in another world - though I don't have a 100th of his extraordinary perception. Would that I could. Ackroyd captures with some real depth a person who can't possibly be understood his lifetime and has been embraced in ours to some extent, even as his prophecies of mechanized life have gone ignored (then come horribly true).