“Sick as a Rose”: William Blake in Leopoldo María Panero’s Poetry of Experience

Abstract

William Blake’s Songs of Experience found a powerful response in the Spanish author Leopoldo María Panero (1948–​2014). In his work, which is crowded with echoes of the Blakean images of the sick rose and the tiger, he offers a reinterpretation of some of Blake’s most popular motifs.