Poems

<p><b>'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake</b><br><b><br> Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake's poems including the complete poems from <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience.</i></b><br><br>William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers who as well as being a groundbreaking poet is also well known as a painter engraver radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps.</p>