PARTE SECONDA PRESENTAZIONE GABRIELI BLAKE WILLIAM BLAKE 1757
PARTE SECONDA PRESENTAZIONE GABRIELI 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
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