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William Blake and the Angel

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/William-Blake-and-the-Angel.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/27/2002 William Blake and the Angel Transcript When he was ten years old, William Blake (who was born on November 28th in 1757) saw an angel in a tree outside his family’s house in London. Though no one believed him at the time, he […]

May Day

That’s the late, great, beat poet, Allen Ginsberg with friends singing a part of their 1969, slightly off-key version of one of William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”–the “Echoing Green.”