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About this audiobook
Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David. This is the sole point of contact discernible between the classicism of David and English art, though furtive and indirect. Blake is the most mystic of the English painters, perhaps the only true mystic. He was ingenious in his inner imagination, and his interpretations of ancient and modern poets reveal as true and candid a spirit as the title of his first work – poems he composed, illustrated and set to music, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Later he achieved grandeur, power and profundity, especially in certain tempera paintings. Just like others, Blake was considered an eccentric by most of his contemporaries, until his genius was recognised in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Publish dateMay 8, 2012
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Table of contents
1WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM BLAKE
2Text: Osbert Burdett
3I. An Early Revelation
4the
5Apprenticeship and Marriage, 1771-1787
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6The Lyrical Poems
7laws and moral
8II. Poetic Visions
9Poland Street and the Early Prophecies, 1787-1792
10Man cannot naturally perceive but through his
11Natural or Bodily organs. (I.)
12To this the cloud answers:
13How great thy use, how great thy blessing.
14Lambeth
15itself without
16Over their pale limbs, as a vine when the tender
17Four Mighty Ones are in every Man: a Perfect
18Amen...
19Blake’s Ideas on Art
20In a Descriptive Catalogue, printed in 1809, Blake
21interest attaches
22At Felpham with Hayley, 1800-1803
23shall
24III. The Dusk of a Prophet
25Milton and Jerusalem
26The ambitious spider in his sullen web, the lucky
27Indefinite or paltry rhymes.
28London Once More, 1804-1809
29fire of
30commission in these words:
31Disciples and Death
32appearance in his old age:
33Blake and the Sublime
34Bibliography
35Towards Malebolge’
36Europe, a Prophecy
37Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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