... riend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow— William Blake
Blake distinguished between Contraries, without which there is no progression, and Negations, which hinde ...
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.— William Blake
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
When I started studying William Blake in the 1950s, it seemed that only English majors knew who he was, but today, I think more people mi ...
... at only English majors knew who he was, but today, I think more people might recognize The Tyger as Blake’s than would be able to identify poems by Keats, Byron, Shelley, or Wordsworth. After 200 years, his ...
... ans that other poets tied their writing to frameworks which have receded into the background, while Blake’s words were chosen in a way that allowed them to travel across the centuries without loss. Even thou ...
... surface, individuals and groups have always lived as though time behaved very differently for them. William Blake was a person who investigated this discrepancy between official cultural progression, and real huma ...
... pass the officially established mechanistic view of reality, into a more fully human reality. Since Blake ridiculed established doctrines in medicine, chemistry, mathematics, and Newtonian physics, many pe ...
Blake’s work, I think, is of continued and increased interest because he discovered something of great impo ...
... ating on becoming a biologist, and I realized that it was his scientific knowledge that shows up in Blake's imagery, far more than his theology, which Blake obviously despised. By chance, just after I finish ...
... it was his scientific knowledge that shows up in Blake's imagery, far more than his theology, which Blake obviously despised. By chance, just after I finished my master’s thesis on Blake, I got a job at a ...
... is theology, which Blake obviously despised. By chance, just after I finished my master’s thesis on Blake, I got a job at a Swedenborgian college (Urbana University), where I saw in traditional form the sm ...
... rgian college (Urbana University), where I saw in traditional form the small minded theologism that Blake had seen in Swedenborg. As a result of those experiences, I greatly appreciated the book, The Heave ...
Blake’s imagery indicates that he had a great interest in the physical and biological sciences, and he appa ...
E. P. Thompson’s Witness against the Beast is an extremely valuable source for clarifying Blake’s vocabulary.
In the “scientific” philosophies of Blake’s time, it was common to speak of matter and its primary and secondary qualities. Blake understood th ...
In studying literature, the only person that really appealed to me in English literature was William Blake, who in many different places— he had physiological descriptions, for example, the number of nerves ...
... Which, obviously, he was getting these ideas from the culture. Erasmus Darwin was contemporary with William Blake and was a very famous intellectual. And so, there was this oral culture in London and other big cit ...
... religious leader who was also an engineer and biological experimenter. Swedenborg, I think is where Blake got the idea that showed up in his book that the nerves develop and invade the other tissues. This ...
... ely to get hanged if they were too blatant in their description of things the King didn’t like. And William Blake was tried for sedition in 1804 and after that he was much more circumspect in the way he described ...
I wanted to just ask you about, in the beginning you were talking about William Blake. A lot of what William Blake wrote was poetry and what I got from his readings, back in medical sch ...
... wanted to just ask you about, in the beginning you were talking about William Blake. A lot of what William Blake wrote was poetry and what I got from his readings, back in medical school, he was profoundly religi ...
... oddy. As always, please do your own research and come to your own conclusions, and in the spirit of William Blake, the true method of knowledge is experiment. Without further ado here is the show.
... ough a foreign power ruled from a distant imperial capital. Maybe this goes back to your writing on Blake, and you say that that’s a representation of the past, and it’s trying to retain the past into the ...
... winged fly, smaller than a grain of sand? It has a heart like thee; a brain open to heaven & hell…– Milton
... ently had some direct contacts with the leading scientists in London, some of whom are lampooned in Island in the Moon. Some of Swedenborg’s discoveries were probably discussed in these groups.
Imagination has nothing to do with memory.– Annotations to Wordsworth's Poems
... hod of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences.– All Religions are One
... it seemed that only English majors knew who he was, but today, I think more people might recognize The Tyger as Blake’s than would be able to identify poems by Keats, Byron, Shelley, or Wordsworth. After 200 ...
Energy is the only life, and is from the Body … Energy is eternal delight.– The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
... oft lute; and shew you all alive / The world, where every particle of dust breathes forth its joy.– Europe a Prophecy
... tity: nor shall that which is aboveEver descend into thee: but thou shalt be a Non Entity for ever— Jerusalem, Plate 17, (E 161)
... pectre of Man: the Holy Reasoning PowerAnd in its Holiness is closed the Abomination of Desolation– Jerusalem
... ame Thing? Brotherhood is ReligionO Demonstrations of Reason Dividing Families in Cruelty & Pride!– Jerusalem
... ce; I punish the already punishd: O whomShould I pity if I pity not the sinner who is gone astray!– Jerusalem
With Demonstrative Science piercing Apollyon with his own bow!– Jerusalem
Generalizing Art & Science till Art & Science is lost.– Jerusalem
For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars– Jerusalem
Knowledge is not by deduction, but Immediate by Perception or Sense at once.– Annotations to Berkeley's Siris
