The Doors – Break on Through
Named after a line from Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, transmitted via Aldous Huxley and The Doors of Perception, this is a particular favourite of mine that captures some of Blake’s own...
View ArticleL. A. Woman, A City Yet a Woman: Blake, Jim Morrison, and Prophecy
Morrison, ‘An American Poet’, and ‘English Blake’ are popularly espoused as voices of their nations. Both saw themselves as prophets, claiming at least to comment on and at most to influence the...
View ArticleHow Much Did Jim Morrison Know about William Blake?
Everyone knows the Doors are named for the doors of perception – but that phrase comes from Aldous Huxley’s book on hallucinogens as well as from Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Morrison quotes...
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