Poems

A visionary genius... There are passages of brilliance everywhere... The wonder of Blake is that he had an imagination that brought together words and images

Independent

There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron

William Wordsworth

The movement of his [Blake's] early verse are like the gambollings of some very powerful animal, still in its fluffy-footed and tottering babyhood

Samuel Butler Yeats

[Blake] always insists on the importance of the pure, clean line that evokes and creates the figure on the background of the uncreated void

James Joyce

Blake is a great liberating imaginative force

Tom Paulin

The poems of a man with a profound interest in human emotions, and a profound knowledge of them

T.S. Eliot