Poems and Prophecies
by William Blake
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This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other.Tags
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Certainly the greatest English prose writer. Does Milton mog? No, I don't think so.
POEMAS PROFÉTICOS Y PROSAS
Como Los cantos de Maldoror, det
misterioso conde de Lautréamont,
los textos proféticos de William Bl
ke han cobrado en los últimos aios
una influencia cenital en las fomnu
laciones de la más reciente sensibilidad
literaria. En el caso de Biake
además, la influencia rebasa la poesía
y se extiende al campo e as a
tes plásticas. William Blake, mno de
los más misteriosos escritores ae to
últimos siglos, nació en d157, esale
la edad de catorce años se mpleá
en el grabado y la pintunay desde
1788 se aplicó asiduamente a Ja
poesía, cauce mayor de su expresian
mistica. Murió en Fountain Court en 1827.
Como Los cantos de Maldoror, det
misterioso conde de Lautréamont,
los textos proféticos de William Bl
ke han cobrado en los últimos aios
una influencia cenital en las fomnu
laciones de la más reciente sensibilidad
literaria. En el caso de Biake
además, la influencia rebasa la poesía
y se extiende al campo e as a
tes plásticas. William Blake, mno de
los más misteriosos escritores ae to
últimos siglos, nació en d157, esale
la edad de catorce años se mpleá
en el grabado y la pintunay desde
1788 se aplicó asiduamente a Ja
poesía, cauce mayor de su expresian
mistica. Murió en Fountain Court en 1827.
Jan 27, 2018Spanish
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William Blake's poems, prophecies, and engravings represent his strong vision and voice for rebellion against orthodoxy and all forms of repression. Born in London in November 1757; his father, a hosier of limited means, could do little for the boy's education. However, when the young Blake's talent for design became apparent, his wise father sent show more him to drawing school at the age of 10. In 1771 Blake was apprenticed to an engraver. Blake went on to develop his own technique, a method he claimed that came to him in a vision of his deceased younger brother. In this, as in so many other areas of his life, Blake was an iconoclast; his blend of printing and engraving gave his works a unique and striking illumination. Blake joined with other young men in support of the Revolutions in France and America. He also lived his own revolt against established rules of conduct, even in his own home. One of his first acts after marrying his lifetime companion, Catherine Boucher, was to teach her to read and write, rare for a woman at that time. Blake's writings were increasingly styled after the Hebrew prophets. His engravings and poetry give form and substance to the conflicts and passions of the elemental human heart, made real as actual characters in his later work. Although he was ignored by the British literary community through most of his life, interest and study of his work has never waned. Blake's creativity and original thinking mark him as one of the earliest Romantic poets, best known for his Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and The Tiger. Blake died in London in 1827. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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