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"The refusal of praise is actually the wish to be praised twice." Rochefoucauld
O lente lente currite noctis equis.
To a man such as Blake, who seems to have ventured outside London only once, imagination was itself the creator of his world; ."a mystic who reversed the mystical pattern, for he sought man as the end of his search"http://www.multimedialibrary.com/Articles/kazin/alfredblake.asp
William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, his work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts.
While his visual art and written poetry are often considered separately, Blake perceived these two disciplines to be companions in a unified spiritual endeavour. As fierce a critic of the Church of England as he was of the government itself, Blake's conception of God was intimately
Though he believed himself able to converse aloud with Old Testament prophets, and despite his work in illustrating the Book of Job, 's conception of God was intimately entwined with his conception of mankind, a radical departure from the structured
Christian beliefs were modified by a fascination with Mysticism and what is often considered to be his anticipation of the Romanticism unfolding around him. [1] Nonetheless, the difficulty of placing William Blake in any one chronological stage of art history is perhaps the distinction that best defines him.
According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic opus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language." Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, at least one modern critic proclaiming Blake "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced." [2]
Once considered "mad" for his "single-mindedness" (he lived and died in poverty), Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity in both fields, and the underlying philosophical vision that unifies the intent of all his work. As he himself once indicated, "The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself."
While his visual art and written poetry are often considered separately, Blake perceived these two disciplines to be companions in a unified aesthetic and spiritual endeavour. Though he believed himself able to converse aloud with Old Testament prophets, Blake was himself a radical critic of Blake's conception of God was intimately entwined with his conception of mankind; as such, he
fascination with Mysticism and what is often considered to be his anticipation of the Romanticism unfolding around him. [3] Nonetheless, the difficulty of placing William Blake in any one chronological stage of art history is perhaps the distinction that best defines him.
