WILLIAM BLAKE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the key figures of English Romanticism, and some of his poems are universally known thanks to their memorable phrases and opening lines. Read here.

"One thought fills immensity."
William Blake 

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/william-blake/poetry/

WILLIAM BLAKE'S ILLUMINATED PRINTING

"A method of printing which combines the painter and the poet." William Blake

Read here.

https://www.skoletorget.no/abb/eng/blake/ill_print.html

WILLIAM BLAKE: THE ROMANTIC VISIONARY

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/william-blake-the-romantic-visionary#

https://medium.com/@musicianchris1/william-blake-and-allen-ginsberg-poets-of-a-fallen-world-prophets-of-the-new-world-883bc70c9433

WILLIAM BLAKE'S ARTISTIC TALENT AND PROFOUND POETRY

 

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-things-you-didn-t-know-about-william-blake

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/blake-william/artworks/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/21/the-10-best-works-by-william-blake

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/artist-in-focus-william-blake

WILLIAM BLAKE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the key figures of English Romanticism, and a handful of his poems are universally known thanks to their memorable phrases and opening lines. Here you can find ten of his best poem, along with links to each of them.

"One thought fills immensity."
William Blake 

ENGLISH ROMANTICISM

The historical and literary background

Thomas Gray

William Blake

The First Generation of Romantic Poets

The Second Generation of Romantic Poets

Here you can find a PDF presentation too.

WILLIAM BLAKE ~ LONDON

Published in Songs of Experience in 1794, it is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience which does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence.

The poem has a total of sixteen lines which are split into 4 stanzas with a rhyming ABAB pattern throughout the poem. Repetition is the most striking formal feature of the poem, and it serves to emphasize the prevalence of the horrors the speaker describes.

I wandered through each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Thames does flow,

A mark in every face I meet,

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,

In every infant's cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forg'd manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper's cry

Every black'ning church appals,

And the hapless soldier's sigh

Runs in blood down palace-walls.

But most, through midnight streets I hear

How the youthful harlot's curse

Blasts the new-born infant's tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.

WILLIAM BLAKE

William Blake was an English poet, engraver, and painter. A boldly imaginative rebel in both his thought and his art, he combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life.