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William Blake - Selected Poetry and Letters (Paperback)
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William Blake - Selected Poetry and Letters (Paperback)
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Loot Price R286
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William Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, wanted to
believe that Blake was a "new kind of man; and hence his was a new
kind of art, and a new kind of poetry." However, what sets William
Blake apart as a great poet and artist was not that he was so
"new," but that he was so "old." He was a part of a mytho-poetic
and Vatic tradition as old as poetry itself. Blake was heir to a
mytho-poetic tradition that can be traced back to the very
foundations of human thought and speech. The extraordinary in
William Blake was not the "man," but his Vision and how he
expressed it. But most (if not all) of Blake's contemporaries, and
a great many since, wrote Blake's genius off as madness. Gilchrist
explained, "it is only within that last century and a half that]
the faculty of seeing visions could have been one to bring a man's
sanity into question." But divine inspiration has always been the
hallmark of mythological poetry and religious prophetic utterance,
and Daemonic inspiration was even the source of Socrates'
rationalism. It is realizing and perfecting the "visionary"
component of the human mind, which is the central focus of most
Visionary's work - sometimes to the point of alienating those do
not share in the Visionary understanding. But Blake "claimed the
possession of some powers only in a greater degree that all men
possessed and which they undervalued in themselves & lost
through love of sordid pursuits." The Visionary, while seen as
extraordinary and a genius, is only a glimpse of what all human
beings can experience for themselves. Blake's poetry needs to be
read as the expression of a visionary genius who saw what others
could not see. He is an enduring testament to the creative powers
of the human mind. The book includes: Selected Poetry of William
Blake Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience The Book of Thel The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell All Religions are One There is NO
Natural Religion The Book of Urizen Jerusalem Selected Letters of
William Blake
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