May 08, 2004

posted by plep 20 years ago

I fucking hate Blake. But if I didn't, I'm sure I'd love this site.
posted 20 years ago by Blaise Bailey Finnegan
A magnificent find, plep! The illustrated books in the Archive -- yum!
posted 20 years ago by beeswacky
Blaise: why? (Not trying to change your mind. Just curious.)
posted 20 years ago by SlightlyFoxed
Hooray!
posted 20 years ago by PF
I'll try and explain my hatred, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to explain the truest depths of my loathing. See, I've studied Blake. A fair amount. And all I can see is clumsy verse, that scans when it can, rhymes when it sees fit, and is an all-too transparent window into his mind, with his naive, self-gratifying, conceited view on life. I'm sure that he helped beckon in a whole new wave of poetry, but his work still annoys me incredibly.
posted 20 years ago by Blaise Bailey Finnegan
William Blake Online, interactive learning at the Tate
posted 18 years ago by Abiezer_Coppe
A Tree Filled with Angels: The Visionary Worlds of Jim Woodring and William Blake
posted 12 years ago by homunculus
And William Blake was himself a follower of another visionary who saw hallucinations of heaven and hell, namely Emanuel Swedenborg who even influenced Immanuel Kant... Swedenborg believed that everything flows from one source, the godhead, or another way he put it was that our spiritual sun is Love. As I recall, we either roll in filth with the devils, or walk in beauty with the angels thereby.
posted 12 years ago by Dan Folkus

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