WILLIAM BLAKE - profile - profile 2 -
I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision. I see Every thing I paint In This World, but Every body does not see alike. To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the Sun & a bag worn with the use of Money has more beautiful proportions than a Vine filled with Grapes. 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 & Deformity & by these I shall not regulate my proportions, & Some Scarce see Nature at all But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is So he Sees. As the Eye is formed such are its Powers You certainly Mistake when you say that the Visions of Fancy are not be found in This World. To Me This World is all One continued Vision of Fancy or Imagination & I feel Flattered when I am told So. What is it sets Homer Virgil & Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining & Instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the Imagination which is Spiritual Sensation & but mediately to the Understanding or Reason? Such is True Painting and such <was> alone valued by the Greeks & the best modern Artists. [To] Revd Dr Trusler, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey 13 Hercules Buildings,.Lambeth, August 23, 1799 [Postmark: 28 August] |
10 best works by Blake - The Guardian
Elohim Creating Adam The Good and Evil Angels Newton videos WILLIAM BLAKE: 6:35 min. An introduction to William Blake's "The Tyger": 8:54 min - analisi un po’ tecnica. Patti Smith - The Tiger (Performed at the Wadsworth Atheneum). LONDON (recitata dalla gente) 6:05 min - Compare: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, by Wordsworth |
Songs of Innocence - book cover
The Lamb - testo con traduzione
Songs of Experience - book cover
The Tiger - testo con traduzione
London
Did you know that Jim Morrison got the name for The Doors from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ?:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is—infinite.
For man has closed himself up till he sees things
through narrow chinks of his cavern.”
The Lamb - testo con traduzione
Songs of Experience - book cover
The Tiger - testo con traduzione
London
Did you know that Jim Morrison got the name for The Doors from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ?:
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is—infinite.
For man has closed himself up till he sees things
through narrow chinks of his cavern.”