Anupam Basu ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>BTW, I had somehow always identified Beethoven with Blake - the raging
>poet-prophet of romanticism: ...

Interestingly enough, both Beethoven and Blake died in the same year (1827)
although Blake was born earlier.

>Has anyone ever felt this way or mentally drawn such parallels.

A few years back I took part in a staged readthrough of a play which drew
exactly your parallels between B & B.

Deryk Barker
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