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Learn about the life and poetry of William Blake, a visionary poet, painter, and engraver who influenced English Romanticism. Explore his works such as Songs of Innocence and Experience, Europe, and America.
- William Blake 101
Best known in his time as a painter and engraver, William...
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Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked...
- William Blake 101
10 de jan. de 2017 · Explore the greatest poems by William Blake, one of the key figures of English Romanticism. Learn about the themes, contexts, and meanings of his works, from ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘The Tyger’.
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- Visions of eternity
William Blake is considered to be one of the greatest visionaries of the early Romantic era. In addition to writing such poems as “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” Blake was primarily occupied as an engraver and watercolour artist. Today Blake’s poetic genius has largely outstripped his visual artistic renown.
What was William Blake’s career like as a visual artist?
Although William Blake’s principal occupation was engraver, he transitioned to watercolour illustrations after an ambitious 1794 engraving commission floundered when published three years later. He painted watercolours for his patrons illustrating works by Dante, William Shakespeare, and John Milton, although much of his art focused on biblical subjects.
What is William Blake’s poetry about?
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794) is arguably William Blake’s most well-known poetic composition. The Lamb and the Tyger function as complementary symbols of the protection and corruption of innocence, respectively. Much of Blake’s other poetry concerns his politics, visions, and self-invented mythology.
What was William Blake’s reputation during his lifetime?
Visions were commonplaces to Blake, and his life and works were intensely spiritual. His friend the journalist Henry Crabb Robinson wrote that when Blake was four years old he saw God’s head appear in a window. While still a child he also saw the Prophet Ezekiel under a tree in the fields and had a vision, according to his first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist (1828–61), of “a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.” Robinson reported in his diary that Blake spoke of visions “in the ordinary unemphatic tone in which we speak of trivial matters.…Of the faculty of Vision he spoke as One he had had from early infancy—He thinks all men partake of it—but it is lost by not being cultiv[ate]d.” In his essay “A Vision of the Last Judgment,” Blake wrote:
I assert for My Self that I do not behold the outward Creation… ‘What’ it will be Questiond ‘When the Sun rises, do you not See a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?’ O no no I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying ‘Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty!’
Blake wrote to his patron William Hayley in 1802, “I am under the direction of Messengers from Heaven Daily & Nightly.” These visions were the source of many of his poems and drawings. As he wrote in his “Auguries of Innocence,” his purpose was
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THE COMPLETE POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, ED. ERDMAN. |. What's New? About Blake. Resources for Further Research. About the Archive. Copyright and Permissions. Contact the Archive. Related Sites.
Bibliografia. Traduções. Ligações externas. William Blake ( Londres, 28 de novembro de 1757 – Londres, 12 de agosto de 1827) foi um poeta, pintor e tipógrafo inglês. Em grande parte não reconhecido durante sua vida, Blake é agora considerado uma figura seminal na história da poesia e das artes visuais da Era Romântica.
Learn about William Blake, a visionary poet and printmaker of the Romantic era, who criticized the industrial and religious status quo. Explore his poem \"Jerusalem\" and create your own utopian vision in a writing prompt.
A comprehensive collection of Blake's works in illuminated printing, prophetic books, poetical sketches, songs, satires, and prose. Edited by David V. Erdman, with acknowledgments, preface, and notes.
