William Blake

William Blake

1. 1757-1827

2. no education at school

   • engraver
     • he engraved his works in copper plates

3. THE SONG OF EXPERIENCE

   • THE SONG OF INNOCENCE(1789)
     • talks about childhood
   • THE SONG OF EXPERIENCE(1793)
     • talks about adulthood
   • complementary works
     • two states coexist in the human being
   • symbolism
   • lamb, simbol of innocence
   • tyger, simbol of energy
   • simple syntax

4. prophetic books

   • the French revolution
   • America: a Prohecy
   • Milton

5. political view

   • firstly shared french revolution ideas, but after the Terror turned conservative

6. precursor of Romanticism

   • importance of feelings

7. London

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