He believed that in 1948 in an apartment in Harlem, he had had an auditory hallucination of Blake reading his poems "Ah, Sunflower," "The Sick Rose," and "Little Girl Lost" (later referred to as his "Blake vision").
ويعتقد أنه في عام 1948 في شقة في هارلم أصابته الهلوسة السمعية بقيام بليك بقراءة قصائده " آه ، عباد الشمس " و " الوردة المريضة " و " الفتاة الصغيرة المفقودة " )يشار إليه فيما بعد باسم " رؤية بليك "(.