William Blake's Immortal Hand and Eye The Washington Post | May 12, 1996| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

BLAKE

By Peter Ackroyd

Knopf. 399 pp. $35

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) may be the most perplexing major figure in English literature. On the one hand, "The Tyger" is -- according to William Harmon in The Top 500 Poems -- the single most popular short lyric in our language. Young children learn to chant its haunting singsong in elementary school: "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright/ In the forests of the night." A dozen of Blake's other poems -- including "London," "The Mental Traveller," "The Chimney Sweeper" -- are nearly as well-known, and a great many of his lines will be familiar even ...

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