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What does /lit/ think of William Blake?

>> No.14986905

>>14986783
I liked songs of innocense and adulthood or whatever, there was some guy posting lots about all his drawings which werre pretyy, I like him, hes fun to read. I'm into that 1 book though havent read his schizo stuff. Just the stuff about the sick rose with a worm from night and all the little lambs around god, and the one about london was great

>> No.14987805

>>14986783
he's eternally based

>> No.14987815

>>14986783
A true Renaissance man despite living through the industrial revolution

>> No.14987893

>>14986783
Liked his earlier stuff, Milton is a chore and Jerusalem is unreadable.

>> No.14988507

>>14986783
Great poet, unfortunately horribly misinterpreted by most.

"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

So sung a little Clod of Clay
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:

"Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite."

I will never forgive the cuckolds who memed him into being the de facto patron saint of the orgyporgy lifestyle in the eyes of most people.

>> No.14988522

Thanks for the replies guys. I’m new to Blake and was wondering where I should begin, exactly.

>>14987893
I’ve heard that. Jerusalem does seem to have some beautiful lines though.

>>14988507
I’m already getting annoyed with seeing various people throughout history and online trying to claim him for whatever their pet causes are.

>> No.14988525

He writes boring nursery rhymes, change my mind.

>> No.14988529
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14988529

One of the best English poets, but pic related is infinitely better prove me wrong

>> No.14988580

>>14988529
who dat

>> No.14988598

>>14988580
John Milton (the G.O.A.T.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlrW9SUCINo

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>>14988529
Haven't read him yet.
pic related is the real O.G tho

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>>14988580
>who dat

>> No.14988887

A genious in the true sense of the word.

>> No.14988909

He is great

But his new age spiritualism is cringe and reminds me of a typical wine aunt world view

>> No.14988939
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>Bring me my bow of burning gold!
>Bring me my arrows of desire!
>Bring me my spear: o clouds unfold!
>Bring me my chariots of fire!
>I will not cease from mental fight;
>Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
>Till we have built Jerusalem
>In England's green and pleasant land.
Unquestionably one of the greatest poets to ever live.

>> No.14989273

poetry is fucking gay but his paintings look cool

>> No.14989361

>>14986783
Great poet but too crazy for his own good - man would spend all day in his garden conversing with imaginary angels. I love his shorter poems like Auguries of Innocence and the Marriage of Heaven and Hell which contain many striking insights, but I don't know who has the stamina to tackle his epics and try to decipher the entire mythical-philosophical project embedded in his writings.

>> No.14989401

What do I read to dive head first into schizo blake?

>> No.14990498

>>14988939
lol that sucks I knew this place was full of spectators

>> No.14990572

>>14990498
t. election migrant

>> No.14990677

>>14986783
Milton, Jerusalem, and The Four Zoas are his best work. Anyone who says otherwise has been pleb filtered.

>> No.14990751

>>14988522
>Jerusalem does seem to have some beautiful lines though.
It does but you have to wade through a bunch of Finnegans Wake-tier not-exactly-gibberish to find them.

>I’m already getting annoyed with seeing various people throughout history and online trying to claim him for whatever their pet causes are.
>>14988909
Blake really was an advocate of "free love" who thought marital fidelity was a Demiurgic concept though. Just read Daughters of Albion.

>> No.14991455

>>14989401
The Four Zoas