It cannot have escaped your attention that William Blake (1757-1827) one of the most colourful and contradictory of Britain's poets, is being celebrated this week. I had recently been re-introduced to Blake by Juan Calle, the chair of the Casa del Poeta Peruano de Londres and I wonder if we cannot take this opportunity to fit Blake into our pantheon of British "public intellectuals" who have (or could or even should have) influenced thought in South America or vice versa. The influence of the (North) American Revolution is spelt out in some of his poetry. The Preludium To America is perhaps better known:
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