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Innocence and Experience; Two children spark the imagination of William Blake.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070318
Author:
BURNING BRIGHT
By Tracy Chevalier
Dutton. 311 pp. $24.95 Burning Bright derives its title from the opening phrase of William Blake's great poem: "Tyger, tyger, burning bright/ In the forests of the night. . . . " When one learns that this novel's author is Tracy Chevalier, it follows as the night the day that we will enter the world of Blake's London and find "fearful symmetry" there. If not precisely formulaic, Chevalier has by now established a formula for her process and success: Take a historical period with a recognized figure or work of art, add some invented families and an engaging ...
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