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Introduction
Welcome to the Scotch College guide to the poetry of William Blake, an engraver by trade who became an important poet and social activist. Here we will examine the historical, cultural and social contexts in which Blake's texts were received, the changes in those contexts over time and the persistence of his messages.
We will highlight specific works in the course of this examination as we aim to illuminate various aspects of his work and its impact on readers, past and present.
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Blake's poetry: spectral visions by Call Number: 821.7 BLAISBN: 9780333531365Publication Date: 1993William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and joy. But the contradictions within Blake's own 'visionary' poetics are less often considered. Throughout his work, Blake powerfully dramatises the energies and agonies of his own poetic labour.
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William Blake Biographical Information
- Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). William Blake. Britannica School. Retrieved July 30, 2024, from https://school-eb-com-au.db.scotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/William-Blake/15583
William Blake, (born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1827, London), English engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The First Book of Urizen (1794), Milton (1804[–?11]), and Jerusalem (1804[–?20]).
