A Visit to William Blake's Inn—attractively printed on speckled paper to simulate an ancient text—consists of a brief prose "Introduction" followed by some seventeen gently whimsical poems which imagine the famous writer and engraver William Blake (1757-1827) as the keeper of a magical inn in which angels make the beds, dragons are bakers, cows sleep on clouds, sunflowers move about the various rooms and arrange themselves, and tigers and owls are numbered among the guests.
The overriding appeal of this book is not.....
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