Sunday, February 26, 2006

i'm really happy with the following guest posting from a fellow poet named chris george. chris had this thank you for the help he received in revising his original poem. i thought they too, should be mentioned. s

I am grateful to two critics over at Eratosphere for helping me to the present revision of this poem. Thanks to Katy Evans-Bush for pointing out this is in fact a life mask done four years before Blake's death and not a death mask of the visionary as I had thought. The original life mask is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Also thanks to Greg Diprinzio for additional thoughts about the actual look of the poet-mystic's hooded eyes which I have taken the liberty of including in the below revision--

No comments: