Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Milton
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Blake is the most idiosyncratic of the idiosyncratic writers of the Romantic period. Like the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, he constructed his own private mythology, in both cases probably limiting his appreciation to his time and age. Writing before the other major Romantic poets, he also largely operates in isolation from them. Wordsworth thought him mad. He was not regarded as a poet in his time, but more as an engraver.
Yet Blake similarly exalts the imagination, seeing it as the ennobling faculty of mankind, one enslaved by 'reason', a term he associates with conventional, lazy, and oppressive thinking. This form of thinking has been codified in both religion and in the laws of nations that oppress mankind rather than liberate them.
There is no easy way of understanding Blake. Herein we look at his work 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' and the Preface to his poem 'Milton', which for all of the author's obscurantism contains perhaps the most celebrated poem in the English language, the hymn/anthem 'Jerusalem'.
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For those not having anything better to do, here's a quiz: without peeking, who wrote:
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."?
Could it be that those deeming Bill Blake a bit off, euphemistic for nuts, may have had a point? But then, in a nutshell: What is/are "nuts" other than the delicious stuff located between two halves of a nutshell, looking like a miniature human brain and likely to cause anaphylactic shock reactions in some?