news [“Blake’s Day”]
begin page 3 | ↑ back to top“Blake’s Day” was recently celebrated at the University of Iowa, as reported in an article by Gail Marshall in Middle Earth (I, 6), an underground newspaper. (Professor Grant has kindly sent a xerox copy.) The events included readings, “a dance ballet based on The Mental Traveller” and “a three-piece slide show of Blake’s paintings of saints and serpents flanked by modern photos of screaming Negroes, machine-gun-shooting Black Berets, and pastoral childhood scenes . . . accompanied by a tape montage of voices (both adult and child) reading from Songs of Innocence and Experience, Jerusalem, etc.” Groovy!