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Notapor buzzywuzzy » Dom Dic 17, 2006 9:32 pm

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William Blake - The Iluminated Books

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William Blake (1757-1827) - British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. He joined for a time the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in London and considered Newtonian science to be superstitious nonsense. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
(from 'Auguries of Innocence')


William Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier and attracted by the doctrines of Emmanuel Swedenborg. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. His parents encouraged him to collect prints of the Italian masters, and in 1767 sent him to Henry Pars' drawing school. From his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks, he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly. In 1774 Blake opened with his wife and younger brother Robert a print shop at 27 Broad Street, but the venture failed after the death of Robert in 1787. Blake's important cultural and social contacts included Henry Fuseli, Reverend A.S. Mathew and his wife,

John Flaxman (1755-1826), a sculptor and draftsman, Tom Paine, William Godwin, and Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), married to the wealthy grandson of the earl of Sandwich. His early poems Blake wrote at the age of 12. However, being early apprenticed to a manual occupation, journalistic-social career was not open to him. His first book of poems, Poetical Scetches, appeared in 1783 and was followed by Songs of Innocence (1789), and Songs of Experience (1794). His most famous poem, The Tyger, was part of his Songs of Experience.

Typical for Blake's poems were long, flowing lines and violent energy, combined with aphoristic clarity and moments of lyric tenderness. Blake was not blinded by conventions, but approached his subjects sincerely with a mind unclouded by current opinions. On the other hand this made him also an outsider. He approved of free love, and sympathized with the actions of the French revolutionaries but the Reign of Terror sickened him. In 1790 Blake engraved The Mariage of Heaven and Hell, a book of paradoxical aphorisms and his principal prose work. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." (from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell).

The Blakes moved south of the Thames to Lambeth in 1790. During this time Blake began to work on his 'prophetic books', where he expressed his lifelong concern with the struggle of the soul to free its natural energies from reason and organized religion. Although Blake first accepted Swedenborg's ideas, he eventually rejected him. He wrote The Visions Of Daughters Of Albion (1793), America: A Prophesy (1793), The Book of Urizen (1794), and The Song of Los (1795). Blake hated the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England and looked forward to the establishment of a New Jerusalem "in England's green and pleasant land." Between 1804 and 1818 he produced an edition of his own poem Jerusalem with 100 engravings.

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire."
(from 'Jerusalem' in Milton, 1804-1808)


In 1800 Blake was taken up by the wealthy William Hayley, poet and patron of poets. The Blakes lived in Hayley's house at Felpham in Sussex, staying there for three years. At Felpham Blake worked on Milton: A Poem in two books, To Justify the Ways Of God To Men. It was finished and engraved between 1803 and 1808. In 1803 Blake was charged at Chichester with high treason for having 'uttered seditious and treasonable expressions, such as "D-n the King, d-n all his sibjects..."' but was acquitted. In 1809 Blake had a commercially unsuccessful exhibition at the shop once owned by his brother. However, economic problems did not depress him, but he continued to produce energetically poems, aphorisms, and engravings. "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction," he wrote. From 1818 Blake started to enjoy the admiration of a group of young disciples. Blake's last years were passed in obscurity, quarreling even with some of the circle of friends who supported him. Among Blake's later artistic works are drawings and engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy and the 21 illustrations to the book of Job, which was completed when he was almost 70 years old. Blake never shook off the poverty, in large part due to his inability to compete in the highly competitive field of engraving and his expensive invention that enabled him to design illustrations and print words at the same time.

Independent through his life, Blake left no debts at his death on August 12, 1827. He was buried in an unmarked grave at the public cemetery of Bunhill Fields. Wordsworth's verdict after Blake's death reflected many opinions of the time: "There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Blake's influence grew through Pre-Raphealites and W.B. Yeats especially in Britain. His interest in legend was revived with the Romantics' rediscovery of the past, especially the Gothic and medieval. In the 1960s Blake's work was acclaimed by the Underground movement. T.S. Eliot wrote in his essay on Blake that "the concentration resulting from a framework of mythology and theology and philosophy is one of the reasons why Dante is a classic and Blake only a poet of genius." (from Selected Essays, 1960). (kirjasto)

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Content:

1. All Religions are one (1788)
2. There is no natural religion (1788)
3. Songs of Innocence (1789)
4. The Book Of Thel (1789-90)
5. The Mariage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
6. Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
7. For Children - The Gates of Paradise (1793)
8. America a Prophecy (1793)
9. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
10. Europe a Prophecy (1794)
11. The (First) Book of Urizen (1794)
12. The Song of Los (1795)
13. The Book of Los (1795)
14, The Book of Ahania (1795)
15. Miltion a Poem (1804-1818)
16. Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820)
17. For The Sexes - The Gates of Paradise (1820)
18. On Homers Poetry (and) on Vigil (1822)
19. The Ghost of Abel (1822)
20. Lacoon (1815, 1826-1827)

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Notapor Feve » Dom Dic 17, 2006 11:54 pm

wonderful!

Thanks, buzzywuzzy :hola:
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Notapor Nusrat Fateh Ali Havel » Sab Feb 17, 2007 10:37 pm

Coño!!!. En cuánto pueda pincho.
Porque dispongo del subsuelo. Al final la historia siempre acaba con los idiotas al poder. Chao.
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Notapor zeppogrouxo » Sab Feb 17, 2007 10:39 pm

Y yoooo, y oooo :yuju:
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Notapor pere_ubu » Dom Feb 18, 2007 12:31 am

Bajando.
Thanks a lot Buzzy.

Dejo algunos enlaces a libros de Blake, para los interesados en sus textos.

En español:
eD2K link Blake, William - Visiones de las hijas de Albion.pdf

eD2K link Blake, William - El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno.pdf

eD2K link Blake, William - Cantares de experiencia.pdf

En inglés:
eD2K link Blake, William - Complete Poetry And Prose.pdf


Hay más en la mula, si os gustó, buscad. :mrgreen:

:hola:

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Notapor Nusrat Fateh Ali Havel » Dom Feb 18, 2007 1:36 am

No dejen de ver "Dead Man" de Jarsmuch. "Oh, oh William Blake".

De memoria y por tanto desvirtuado:

"¿Fue el mismo qué creo a la oveja, quién te creo tigre?". Es sorprendente pensar que todos hemos sido creado por el mismo Dios, yo siempre he sido más estilo griego con todos esos dioses para cada faceta.
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Notapor Feve » Dom Feb 18, 2007 2:03 am

Cuando las estrellas arrojaron sus lanzas
y bañaron los cielos con sus lágrimas
¿sonrió al ver su obra?
¿Quien hizo al cordero fue quien te hizo?

Tigre, tigre, que te enciendes en luz,
por los bosques de la noche
¿qué mano inmortal, qué ojo
osó idear tu terrible simetría?

:hola:
Pues ahora que ya nos hemos visto -dijo el Unicornio-, si tú crees en mí, yo creeré en ti.
¿Te conviene el trato?.
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Notapor pere_ubu » Dom Feb 18, 2007 2:25 am

"Tigre", que es uno de mis poemas preferidos, podeis leerlo completo en "Cantares de experiencia". El enlace está más arriba.

De paso, ya que estamos con Blake, ¿por qué no algo de Milton?

En español.
eD2K link Milton, John - El Paraiso Perdido.pdf

En inglés.
eD2K link Paradise Lost (John Milton).pdf

Joder, ¿por que no todos los hilos son así? :-8

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Notapor Nusrat Fateh Ali Havel » Dom Feb 18, 2007 3:54 am

Vale Feve ya me has dejado por un idiota pedante. :culete: Espero que por lo menos no fuera de memoria.

De memoria, quién lo sepa que recite: "Algunos nacemos para la noche eterna".

Reconozco que vuestra cultura es peor que un insulto a mi inteligencia.
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Notapor Feve » Dom Feb 18, 2007 4:14 am

con lo bien que había quedao' no debería decir que no, que he tenido que ir a mirarlo :burla:
Pues ahora que ya nos hemos visto -dijo el Unicornio-, si tú crees en mí, yo creeré en ti.
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Notapor pere_ubu » Dom Feb 18, 2007 5:16 am

Todas las noches y todas las mañanas
unos nacen para la miseria.
Todas las nocehes y todas las mañanas
otros nacen para el dulce placer.
Unos nacen para el dulce placer,
otros nacen para la noche eterna.

¿De memoria? No hijo. Pero es agradable recordarlo.
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