William Blakes Religious Vision
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Author | : Jennifer Jesse |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739177915 |
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake’s works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological “road signs” he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake’s messages to his intended audiences—sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals—we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley’s theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse’s call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake’s works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like “Blake says” or “Blake believes,” followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake’s respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake’s works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake’s works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.
Author | : Morris Eaves |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-01-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521786775 |
Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts |
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Author | : Marsha Keith Schuchard |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
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This work offers a new insight into the work of William Blake. The discovery of Blake family documents led to a radical cast of characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf and Swedenborg, and to a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.
Author | : John Higgs |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781474614368 |
'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.
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Publisher | : Paddington Press, Limited |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Art |
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With a new introduction by Michael Marqusee.
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Sarah Haggarty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781316508107 |
William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of thirty-eight lively and authoritative essays examines what Blake had in common with his contemporaries, the writers who influenced him, and those he influenced in turn. Chapters from an international team of leading scholars also attend to his wider contexts: material, formal, cultural, and historical, to enrich our understanding of, and engagement with, Blake's work. Accessibly written, incisive, and informed by original research, William Blake in Context enables readers to appreciate Blake anew, from both within and outside of his own idiom.
Author | : Alexander Gilchrist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Artists |
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Author | : John Higgs |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1474614345 |
'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William Blake A short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first century The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever.