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William Blake

William Blake. Poet, Artist, Visionary. Single-handedly given credit for ending an era and influencing Romanticism Is considered a poet, painter, and engraver (often all 3 were in one book). Philosophy. Our way of life is founded on mistaken beliefs, leading to war and poverty

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William Blake

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  1. William Blake Poet, Artist, Visionary

  2. Single-handedly given credit for ending an era and influencing Romanticism • Is considered a poet, painter, and engraver (often all 3 were in one book)

  3. Philosophy • Our way of life is founded on mistaken beliefs, leading to war and poverty • We only know a small part of our reality through our 5 senses • We must learn to trust our instincts/intuitions, energies, and imaginations **Blake felt that we only concern ourselves with scientific truths and materialistic values**

  4. Poet of Contrary? • Called “mad” = later declared a genius • Worked tediously by hand=industrial revolution • Emotional=age of reason • Simple theme=ornate styles

  5. Major works • Songs of Innocence • Songs of Experience **Companion volumes showing “2 contrary states of human experience.”

  6. Innocence • Joy, spontaneity, and oblivious to evil • May discuss evil but not aware of its existence

  7. Experience • Destruction of the state of innocence because it leads to awareness of evil and ugliness (not all doom and gloom, though) • Blake NEVER meant to suggest that one was better than the other. Rather BOTH are necessary to reach a third, optimal state

  8. Organized Innocence • An existence based on knowledge of contraries and happiness “Without contraries there can be no progression” **Must pass through both innocence and experience to arrive at an existence based on knowledge and happiness.

  9. “Without contraries there can be no progression” What does this mean???

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