Author: Charles GardnerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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William Blake, the Man
Author: Charles GardnerWilliam Blake, the Man (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles GardnerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483274631
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Excerpt from William Blake, the Man In Blake's day the transitions in Broad Street were more clearly defined. It had been a fashionable quarter, and still retained a vivid memory of its past glory. The new buildings were shops of a good solid kind, which struck the eye like vivid green paint as they sprang up side by side with the older private houses that time had softened and mellowed. Blake's father was a hosier. His name was James, he was married to Catherine, and they had five children, William being the second. James was a dissenter, but, like so many dissenters, he liked such important functions as baptism, marriage, and burial to be performed by the Church of England, that there might be no mistake about them. Accordingly, William was taken on December 11th, when he was a fortnight old, to be christened at St James's Church in a Grinling Gibbons font, the highly ornate character of which was fortunately not observed by the tender recipient of baptismal grace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
William Blake (Classic Reprint)
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334510175
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Excerpt from William Blake William blake would have been the first to understand that the biography of anybody ought really to begin with the words, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Sanity of William Blake (Classic Reprint)
Author: Greville MacDonaldPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267432042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Excerpt from The Sanity of William Blake And if we are to judge William Blake's sanity by the limited arguments of mind specialists, we shall most certainly find him lacking; though we may wish the world were less sane if the loss of its wits would bring it nearer to the Kingdom in which Blake lived. But more than this. He was mad if we are to judge him by those many wise Whose only idea of living in perfect sanity is to take in one another's washing, and yet not wash it in public. He was mad if no man may see further than his neighbours with out the sanction of the Lunacy Commission if no man has right to prophecy; if none may use terrific metaphor without being accused of coarse realism if none may call the devil black without being stigmatized as small-minded; if none may light a candle without the sane world disputing his right to find road through the darkness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
William Blake, Mystic
Author: Adeline M. ButterworthPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267673445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Excerpt from William Blake, Mystic: A Study Silence, and Darkness' solemn Sisters' twins From ancient night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve, That column of true majesty in man, Assist me: I Will thank you in the grave The grave, your kingdom: them this frame shall fall A Victim sacred to your dreary shrine But what are ye P thou, ho didst put to flight Primeval silence, when the morning stars, Exulting, shouted o'er the rismg ball O thou! Whose word from solid darkness struck That spark, the sun; strike Wisdom from my soul My soul, which flies to thee, her trust, her treasure. As misers to their gold, while others rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
William Blake
Author: P. BergerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331236750
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Excerpt from William Blake: Poet and Mystic In this study of Blake we shall consider him almost exclusively as poet and visionary, disregarding his artistic side except in so far as it throws light upon his character as a man. We shall examine him as a strange poetical and psychological phenomenon. We shall try to define his ideas of the world as we can gather them from his writings, and to give as comprehensible a description as possible of the universe that he saw in his visions. Finally, and chiefly, we shall endeavour to show the influence of the visionary upon the poet, searching his works for signs of the mystical and imaginative spirit that produced them, and being thus led to see, in this very characteristic case, the general effect of mysticism and of prophetic vision upon the poetic spirit properly so called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
WILLIAM BLAKE : THE MAN
Author: Charles GardnerThe Prophetic Books of William Blake
Author: E. R. D. MaclaganPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331723417
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Excerpt from The Prophetic Books of William Blake: Milton Butts, to my poetry as he is to a chapter in the Bible, and approves of my designs as little as he does of my poems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Poems
Author: William BlakePublisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099511632
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITHWilliam Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by
The Mysticism of William Blake (Classic Reprint)
Author: Helen C. WhitePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666996596
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Excerpt from The Mysticism of William Blake The next chapter, the sixth, carries on the description of Blake's mysticism to what may be called his message, what Blake as a mystic has to say about man's life and destiny. While funda mentally indebted to the work of men like Ellis and Yeats, this summary View of the essentials of Blake's mystical teachings has been arrived at from a careful study of all Blake's works, including his letters (fortunately Dr. Keynes' new edition came to hand in time to be useful in the revision), and all of his drawings and paint ings (in the majority of cases reproductions) to which the present writer had access. Its claims to originality of interpretation are slight. All that it tries to do is to present as simply and clearly as possible the main features of Blake's system, and the dominant tendencies of the philosophy back of that system that must be taken into account when we try to understand Blake as a mystic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.