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WILLIAM

BLAKE

Matteo Ciccolini and

Michele Semeraro

50 ANNO

letteratura Inglese

LIFE Ɣ William Blake was born on 28 November in 1757 in London, from a humble family Ɣ From a very early age his artistic talent emerged: he began an apprenticeship to become an engraver , and after becoming an engraver he began his career as a painter after being taken at the Royal Academy of Art's School of Design Ɣ Thanks to the Bible , which has been a point of reference since childhood, brought the poet to have a strong religious feeling. Ɣ Blake died in London in 1827 a

*$"Ļ/'./0$, His Christianity is neither liturgical nor moralistic: he believes in reality but blames Christinaity for the fragmentation of consciousness and the dualism that characterizes human life. To this dualistic view he replaced that of ' 'complementary opposities ƅƅÆ God and the Devil, man and woman, kindness and cruelty, etc. For Blake, the opposite states exist in parallel and are simultaneous ; according to him, the possibility of progress lies in considering these two states as coexisting and not opposing. H

Talks about different aspects of political change

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Prophetic book were Hell and Satan represent liberty while Heaven is the place of lawgiving

THE MARRIADGE OF

HEAVEN AND HELL

Two masterpieces of Blake; represent the two contrary states of human soul Æ adulthood and childhood

Attack on conventional sexual morality

THE VISION OF THE

DAUGHTERS OF

ALBION

WORKS

SONGS OF EXPERIENCE ‡ Was published during the Period of Terror (1794) ‡ These collection of songs is a counterpart (in the form of a bard) which questions the themes of the previous one ‡ Shows a more complex and pessimistic view of the life, and the weakness of the innocence prospective ‡ The poet moves a critic to the evils of society EXPERIENCE ADULTHOOD COESIST

with CHILDHOOD

VIEWOF^ RELIGION

IMAGINATION ‡ Blake considers the imagination (also understood as the Divine Vision) as the key to the knowledge ‡ He believes that only God, child and poet has these vision, and these one is power to create ‡ *SPPS[MRKXLI&PEOIƅWZMI[ the poet became an illuminated prophet, closer to the knowledge of the reality

STYLE Blake's works are characterized by a simple structure and original use of symbols, that represent the states of innocence : ‡ the child ‡ the father ‡ christ His verses are linear and rhythmic: ‡ written text is connected to sound ‡ repetition is frequent. T

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