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Don't listen to the guy "explaining" the lyrics of Jerusalem.

"He talked to angels, they call him out by his name, he talks to angels." 🎶

He knew.

Oh wow wow wow...woah

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Blake was an awakened being. To know him is to understand the Bible as Sacred history. My dears , cease from all this human dissecting. Albion to Blake stood for Universal man not ye old England. Blake fully understood that God is man's very Imagination. He spoke in parables. Everything he said was true... all based on his understanding of the Bible which was written in allegory. This world is but a shadow. Awake, awake thou that sleepest. Know Me for who I Am A Man...God is no more Your own humanity learn to adore.

Such an important documentary - thank you for sharing ⚡️

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Blake would not have minded Jerusalem being sung for a display of English national consciousness. It's literally what the meaning of the lyrics state. However, he would have opposed it being sung to glorify the state, as he distinguished between the state and the nation. Additionally, the reference to "those feet" in the lyrics also pertains to Jesus's, as seen in the line "And was the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?. Revisionists and hacks, everywhere!

The Statement "He / She or Someone is Ahead of their Time" Really is annoying for a person like Me to agree with ! This Statement "He or She is ahead of their time" Should Be Disregarded & Not Spoken At All ! It Makes the Person saying it Look A Fool " You" ! Because Someone Appears to Be Smarter, More Intelligent or More Spiritually Awakened or Aware than the average Unawakened Induvial which by the way is the case for the majority of the People in this World are at any Era or Moment of any Time / Year / Century. Being Knowledgeable Does Not Mean He or She is Ahead of Their Time - No One is Ahead of Time - Beside There is NO TIME - There is only Now the present Moment The ETERNAL NOW ! He / She Has Been Blessed With Understanding From Many A Life Times Of Searching The TRUTH.

Blake visited me in a vision and gave me the tune for this poem of his ruclips.net/video/_6m1G61tuB8/видео.htmlsi=8TEHDN4Z6i-LsML6

“The Doors of perception” is where the 1960s band got their name

The music at 26:55 is a dead ringer for the intro to Omega Amigo by the Shamen, which feautures a sample from THX1138 in which Robert Duvall converses with a computerised divinity. Unlikely, but an inspired choice if true.

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Thank you for this

See through the eye by all means but please realise true vision is via the hidden eye of imagination.

Joder esta muy interesante pero no se ingles...

Really enjoyed this documentary. Thank you for sharing it

Dear William....

wow!!! this is brilliant ...thank you ...Blake was a pure genius ...both as a poet and a painter...

I am very grateful that there's no room for Angels in math. There's no room for them in any rational mind or any rational concepts. That is something we've endeavored to leave behind and I am grateful for it.

I'm pretty sure that William Blake's art would have been lost to the ages and he would have been just considered psychotic which in all likelihood he was. Most likely schizophrenic with the god obsession and the constant delusions. I guess to those who believe they would say that God contacted him specifically for some unknown reason. If his poem Jerusalem had not been set to music and then taken on as a national anthem by the British, then I don't believe we'd be hearing his name today except by those who work in the field of outsider art.

I mean no offense to the presenters, but surely there can be no understanding of the Blake 'essence' that is not somehow diminished by the pervasive, (apparently) contradictory, formal, academic, Queen's English, ruling class presentation of his work here. I suspect it would represent everything he stood against ... !

Magnificent, thank you.

In the school library at the age of 16. See a world in a grain of sand Heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand Eternity in an hour. In my 20s: The cut worm forgives the plough. In my early 30s during a time when I was struggling to break away from a limiting doctrine. Sooner murder an infant in the cradle than nurse unacted desire. Three pivotal moments when Blake deeply affected my life connecting me to a deeper sense of myself. (I am 70 now.)

In the movie "The Red Dragon" it was NOT Hannibal who ate the image of 'The Red Dragon'. I don't know abut the novel, though.

Swedenborg was talking about the third eye, so Blake would have also known. No mention of Thomas Payne, too.

Too bad the banalities of Allan Ginsberg and Hubert Parry are here but not the transcendent settings by William Bolcom. I almost can't stand watching because of Ginsberg being in it.

Billy Bragg prefers the Red flag to England's green and white land.

Absolutely amazing 😲🔥❤️

I have a problem with the sound on this video --- is it possible to enable captions?

Please read the intro by Alfred Kazin to "A Portable William Blake". Also, read the entire "A Gutenberg Galaxy" by Marshal McLuhan in which MM says that a central theme of Blake's was the transition of the human species from a "trance of the ear" to the "trance of the eye".

Pompey!

The feet in "Jerusalem" refer to Joseph of Arimathea? But the lines are followed with "And was the holy lamb of God/On Englands pleasant pastures seen!" The poem is built on the tradition that a young Jesus traveled to Britain with Joseph of Arimathea during his "lost" years.

When the BBC was Cool! Tony Benn a tonic.

In re: The Rose, consult Sttephen King's "The Dark Tower", The Rose becomes one of a few motifs of the work.

Seriously marred by the absurd performances of that actoor pretending to be William Blake, his ludicrous tone deaf recitations imbued with false feeling. That actoor made the idea of a Visionary Artist into something laughable, something dislikeable and deluded. What a disservice to Blake. Surely Melvyn could have identified the impostor and weeded him out. Ginsberg served Blake with humility and sang the songs beautifully. The only actor who could have given us a sense of what Blake was like would have been Mark Rylance. Sheldrake was good and so was Ackroyd.

His parents were very forward thinking not destroying his spiritual Life Alive in his head and keeping him off school.he was way before jung x

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Re-watched after some years, and still irked at Ackroyd citing Gilchrist's invention of WB seeing 'spangled angels' in Peckham as fact, still delighted at the actor's portrayal of WB, still rueing that Catherine did not get even a walk-on part, and still disappointed (somewhat) that more 'admirers and devotees' of WB pay him only lip service and fail to join the Blake Society, and get off fat behinds and DO, rather than 'chatter'.

The moment this numb nut turned Blake into sexual amenity he proved he had absolutely zero idea wtf he was talking about. We know what William Blake meant beefsteak he fkn told us. All this guy told me was that he seldom gets laid and when he does he leaves the women more unsatiated than himself.

Thanks for this video, we have watched it in class and its a great summary of Blake's poetic and artistic career.

Fantastic documentary!! One small question: In the poem Tiger, Tiger, shouldn't the word 'symmetry' be pronounced in a more shakespearean way as was the case in a lot of pre modern poems, so, rhyming with 'eye'?

thanks for sharing these, from across the pond

Great docu Tony

Fuk Grammarly...

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@47:44 the pundit chides the narrator to learn the words to Blake's "Jerusalem", and then he goes ahead and misquotes them! Classy......

This is a glorious documentary, by far the best about Blake I have seen. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Enjoyed that. Blake is a good friend of mine. HOWEVER: The BBC man, they're like "Blake would have hated all the nationalistic stuff around Jerusalem", but then they still keep playing the hymn, getting the flags out and panning the English countryside over and over. Very poor. Worth seeing though.