"What is it?" I ask myself. "Unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy." is what dictionary dot com told me (definition 1). Can a writer be held accountable on any of these grounds? There is a fine line between being sane and insane in the world of writing. Many critics believe that there are no critical boundaries for coherent and incoherent writings (Frye). William Blake ran along that line from age 12, in 1769, until he passed away in 1827.

He was a self-educated master painter, engraver, and poet. He dedicated his life to the arts and in 1772 when was married, his wife soon became a large part of his success. He believed in being resourceful, so in turn, manufactured his own ink, printing and illustrated his works, and his wife, Catherine Boucher, sewed the covers onto them.

His writing career began at age 12 (Bibliomania 1). He began writing his first prose to help relieve his mental stresses. This stress haunted him since childhood. He had nightmares of imprisonment and images of people being locked away. Blake had a great mental fear, a thought of chains holding him down. These chains were mental, not physical. They were caused by the burdens of lif

"To see the world in a grain of sand,

is but a faint shadow. " Blake wrote in "Eternity in an Hour.( Blake)" "Imagination is real," and the thought of his world being within a vegetable universe, questions his quality of life. However even though his views are depressed a dwell on our worst days, he has a very optimistic views of the world and its containment universe.

which to Angels look like torment and insanity. (Blake) " As being a highly religious person, Blake would have been assumed to want to be presented at the gates of heaven, instead he creates a depiction of his walk through the fires on hell.

In "the Marriage of Heaven and Hell," he talks of this heaven and this hell as though he has been there or lives there. " As I was walking among the fires of hell,

His burdens of life may have left such deep groves in his soul that he would continue to write about and to things beyond the imaginative reality. Blake once told a friend, "I write when commanded by the spirits, and the moment I have written I see the words fly about the room in all directions. It is then published and the spirits can read. My manuscripts are of no further use. I have been tempted to burn my manuscripts, but my wife won't let me (Bibliomania)."Or the miracle of life trouble him and how many take it for granted. "For everything exists and not

delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;

Determining whether a person is mentally insane is not a very difficult task however, basing a position on poems, and other lyric writings is not a stable means of proof. However, I believe th

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