William Blake

The following quotes are from some extra reading I did for this class from the book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom.

"A poet-painter who considered the Bible to be the Great Code of Art, Blake more properly should be regarded as a visionary, akin to Dante,Milton, and Shelley." pg. 694

"Poetry and painting were, for Blake, prophecy.  His poetry is shadowed by Milton, as his painting is haunted by Michelangelo, but his composite art, has unique value as a prophecy of the Real Man the Imagination." pg. 695

"That which could be made explicit to the idiot, he snapped, was not worth his care." pg. 696



Books about Blake:

The Wisdom of Many, the Vision of One: The Proverbs of William Blake by Marvin D. L. Lansverk
Fearful Symmetry by Northrup Frye
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake by S. Foster Damon
The Stranger from Paradise : A Biography of William Blake by G.E. Bentley
The Life of William Blake by Thomas Wright
"Imitation is criticism": Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Blake by Eleonore Frauke Pieper



Recipes from Blake's time:

Earl Grey Tea
Earl Grey Tea Cookies
Crown Roast of Lamb
Eccles Cake
Hasty Pudding
Mincemeat
Syllabub
Trifle



Websites about Blake:


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