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 [log in to unmask]