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William Blake (wrote (Songs of Innocence (Symbolic imagery (Lambs, flowers…
William Blake
wrote
Songs of Innocence
pastoral mode
narrator is a shepherd
Symbolic
imagery
Lambs
flowers
children
childhood as symbol of innocence
Song of Experience
appeared during the period
Terror in France
Experience as adulthood
Born in London (1757)
origin humble
remained poor all life
trained as an engraver
Interested at political problem
supported French revolution
literary influence was the Bible
give a complete scheme of the world
only 2 friends
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10 Years old
father sent to drawing school
discovers the works of
Michelangelo
Donatello
began to draw monuments
in the old churches of London
Westminister Abbey
love Gothic Style
created a new kind of art which
emphasised power of imagination
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His poetry
regarded as early Romantic
stressed importance of imagination over reason
ideal forms should be created
not from observation of nature
from inner vision
published
prophetic books
The marriage of Heaven and Hell
Belived
rality of spiritual world
regarded Christianity as responsible
for the fragmentation of consiousness
and dualism that characterise man's life
introduced his vision of
complementary opposites
without contraries there is not progression
opposite state of mind
coexist in human and God
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supported
abolition of slavery
shared principles of french revolution
revolution as violence necessary for redemption of man