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WILLIAM BLAKE
LIFE AND WORKS:
WILLIAM BLAKE WAS BORN IN LONDON IN 1757 (seventeen fifty-seven)
HIS ORIGINS WERE HUMBLE AND HE REMAINED POOR ALL HIS LIFE.
HE WAS TRAINED AS AN ENGRAVER WHEN HE WAS A BOY.
HE STUDIED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. HE CREATED A NEW KIND (caind) OF ART WHICH EMPHASISED THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION .
HE WAS A POLITICAL FREETHINKER, HE SUPPORTED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND REMAINED A RADICAL THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
BLAKE HAD A STRONG SENSE OF RELIGION.
THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY INFLUENCE IN HIS LIFE WAS THE BIBLE (baibol)
BECAUSE FOR HIM IT PRESENTED A COMPLETE VISION OF THE WORLD AND ITS HISTORY.
HE EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION OVER REASON
AND BELIEVED THAT IDEAL FORMS SHOULD BE CREATED NOT FROM THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE BUT FROM INNER VISIONS.
THE POETIC COLLECTIONS SONGS OF INNOCENCE (1789)
AND SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (ecspiriens) (1794) ARE THE MOST ACCESSIBLE OF HIS WORKS.
BLAKE ALSO PUBLISHED PROPHETIC BOOKS IN WHICH HE CREATED A COMPLEX PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY.
THE FIRST WAS THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (1790S), A PROSE WORK,
IN WHICH HELL AND SATAN REPRESENT LIBERTY AND ENERGY WHILE HEAVEN IS THE PLACE OF LAWGIVING. (loughiving =legiferare)
THE POETIC COLLECTION
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
WAS PRODUCED BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
BECAUSE OF THE BLAKE'S ENTHUSIASM FOR THE LIBERAL IDEAS. (aidias)
IN THIS COLLECTION THE NARRATOR RECEIVES (risivs) INSPIRATION FROM A CHILD.
THE POEMS ARE FULLS OF SYMBOLS SUCH AS LAMBS, FLOWERS AND CHILDREN
THE CHILDHOOD (ciaildud) IS THE MAIN SYMBOL OF INNOCENCE,
A STATE OF THE SOUL CONNECTED WITH HAPPINESS.
. THE LANGUAGE IS SIMPLE.
THE COLLECTION
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
IS WRITTEN DURING THE PERIOD OF THE TERROR AND IT APPEARS (appirs) THE IMAGE OF THE BARD.
THE WORLD DESCRIBED IN THESE POEMS IS MORE COMPLEX AND PESSIMISTIC
"EXPERIENCE" IS IDENTIFIED (identifaid) WITH ADULTHOOD, AGAINST THE CHILDHOOD DESCRIBED IN SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
IMAGINATION AND THE POET:
BLAKE CONSIDERED IMAGINATION THE BEST WAY TO KNOW THE WORLD.
IMAGINATION WAS SIMILAR TO A DIVINE VISION,
, AND CHILDREN, GOD (god) AND POETS HAVE THIS POWER.
. THE POET IS ALSO SEEN LIKE A PROPHET THAT CAN SEE MORE DEEPLY (dipli) INTO REALITY.