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BLAKE

WILLIAM BLAKE( 1757-1827)

• SONGS OF INNOCENCE (1789)• BOOK OF THEL (1789)• THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (1790-3)• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION• AMERICA A PROPHECY• VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION• SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE 1794• THE BOOK OF URIZEN• EUROPE A PROPHECY• THE SONG OF LOS• THE BOOK OF AHANIA• THE BOOK OF LOS• THE FOUR ZOAS• MILTON• JERUSALEM

• “I curse & bless Engraving alternately, because it takes so much time & is so intractable, tho’ capable of such beauty & perfection”

• “For they [the designs] when Printed perfect accompany Poetical Personifications & Acts, without which Poems they never could have been Executed”

• Every Poem must necessarily be a perfect Unity...when a work has Unity, it is as much in a Part as in the Whole

• “I must Create a System or be enslaved by another Man’s”

• Grecian is Mathematical Form:Gothic is living form, Mathematic Form is eternal in the Reasoning Memory: Living Form is Eternal Existence”

• Firm and determinate lineaments unbroken by shadows

• ...not a line is drawn without intention & that most discriminate and particular. As poetry admits not a Letter that is insignificant, so Painting admits not a Grain of Sand or Blade of Grass Insignificant...

frontespizio di Songs of

Innocence and of Experience

“showing the two contrary states of the human soul”

frontespizio

illustrazione dell’antiporta di

Songs of innocence

introduzione a Songs of Innocence