William Blake

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William
Blake
8 November 1757 –
12 August 1827

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William Blake
• was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is
now considered a seminal figure in the history of the
poetry and visual arts of the Romantic age.
• Although Blake was considered mad by
contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held
in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness
and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical
undercurrents within his work. His paintings and
poetry have been characterised as part of the
Romantic movement
• A committed Christian who was hostile to
the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of
organised religion)

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Some pictures of
Willam Blake

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God blessing the
seventh day, 1805

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Newton (1795)

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The Body of Abel
Found by Adam and
Eve, 1825

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The archetype of the
Creator
• The archetype of the Creator is a familiar
image in Blake's work. Here,
the demiurgic figure Urizen prays before
the world he has forged. The Song of Los is
the third in a series of illuminated
books painted by Blake and his wife,
collectively known as the Continental
Prophecies.

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Poetry of William Blake
Songs of Experience. The Tyger.

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The Songs of Experience.
‘The Tyger’
‘The Tyger’ was first published in William Blake’s
1794 volume Songs of Experience, which contains
many of his most celebrated poems. The Songs of
Experience was designed to complement Blake’s
earlier collection, Songs of Innocence (1789), and
‘The Tyger’ should be seen as the later volume’s
answer to ‘The Lamb’, the ‘innocent’ poem that had
appeared in the earlier volume.
The main idea is wondering of the poet by the
creator.

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'Lamb
and tiger'
Some scholars make
such an analysis , they see the duality
between the lamb and
the tiger as being of the two versions of
God in Christianity: the vengeful and pu
nitive Old Testament God, Yahweh, and
the meek and forgiving God presented
in the New Testamen.

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