Is it fair to use contemporary standards to judge a man who died 116 years ago?
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet and art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and the Economist. He has also been a London correspondent for ARTNews, New York. His latest books are: Late Days (2018), Hypothetical May Morning (2018), Neo Rauch (2019), The Book of Extremities (2019), What You Do With Days (2019) and John Ruskin: a dictionary (2019).
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Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness
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The Tumultuous Times of William Blake
Blake was received by his contemporaries as either extremely odd or completely mad or perhaps both.