William Blake: Sane or Mad?

William Blake: Sane or Mad? "[There] is no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in his madness which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott," William Wordsworth said in reference to William Blake. Blake, unlike other writers, was born and lived in moderate ways, with many talents; he lived throughout the romantic period, and wrote many of the greatest and controversial poems of his time …

…d shortly after was thought to be a mad man, because of his unusual writing and painting styles. He wrote many poems recognizable today, including "The Lamb" and "The Tyger." Blake received little credit for his works until nearly 100 years after his death. Yet Blake is now one of the most widely recognized poets in the English canon. The question should no longer arise if Blake was sane or mad, he was a sane genius!