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WILLIAM BLAKE LONDON 1757-1827 - Coggle Diagram
WILLIAM BLAKE
LONDON 1757-1827
humble
and poor all his life
engraver
Royal academy of Arts
painter
and illustrations (John Milton e Dante's Inferno)
radical free thinker
supporter of the French revolution
evil effects of the indrustrialization
strong sense of religion
(explanation of the world)
early Romantic
imagination
over reason
illuminated printing
(picture and text)
prophetic books
(personal mythology)
IMPORTANT WORKS
pastroral by Virgilio Rouseau and De Foe Noble Savage
Songs of Innocence
before the French Revolution
childhood as innocence
musical and simple language
Songs of Experience
during the period of Terror
pessimistic
view of life
Experience as adulthood
IMAGINATION
means to know the world
beyond the material reality
God, the child and the poet
power of creating a new reality
poet as a prophet
STYLE
simbol structure
original use pf symbols
linear and rhythmical verse
frequent use of repetition