Marianne Boruch: Three Blakes (January 2013)

To read Blake or to stare into his engravings and paintings is to be taken back to the source of what we do. Focusing on Songs of Innocence and Experience, Boruch’s lecture presents a triptych of Blakes, as she investigates his brilliant, quirky, often heroic way with image as artist and poet—as well as “the sound of it, song, in our time and his,” which she explores with the bravura accompaniment of William Bolcom’s settings of Blake’s work.