WILLIAM BLAKE
Tate Britain
Tickets £18 adults, £5 children
Ends 2 February 2020
The William Blake exhibition running at the moment at Tate Britain was bound to be a crowd winner. Blake seems to have shaped our national consciousness more than any other artist, perhaps excepting Dickens.
It was no wonder that Blake’s Jerusalem was used by Danny Boyle to illustrate Britain’s greatness in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Parry’s 1916 setting of the song still stirs, with its combination of social conscience (dark satanic mills), ambitious activism (bring me my sword!) and natural patriotism (green and pleasant hills).
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