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THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF WILLIAM BLAKE'S ARTISTIC GENIUS.(Spotlight)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960505
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Byline: George Gurley The New York Times News Service.

Blake: A Biography

By Peter Ackroyd.

Knopf. 399 pages. $35.

The nature of artistic fame is such that a few masterpieces with the appearance of ``divine inspiration'' may count for more than a body of work that's merely great. Such at least is the case with William Blake.

His renderings of Job and the ``Ancient of Days'' have claimed their niche in the universal mind. ``Tyger, tyger burning bright'' must be one of the few poems still read by youngsters everywhere, delightful at the same time as ...

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