ENGL 1003H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Flying Shuttle, Second Industrial Revolution, Lycidas
8 Mar 2016
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William blake (28 november 1757 12 august 1827) Part of the pantheon of major romantic poets, with william wordsworth, samuel. London-based, deeply religious, but in his own eccentric manner, had a deep antipathy for institutionalized religion, especially the church of england. Largely self-educated except in artistic technique (apprenticed to an engraver before attending the royal academy of art, 1779-1808) Inventor of the technique of relief etching, used to produce illuminated" books combining text and image, which were then coloured by hand in water-colour. A working printer, opening his first shop in 1782, working radical publisher. Joseph johnson whose circle included many leading dissidents, including: Philosopher william goodwin (early proponent of utilitarianism and anarchism) Feminist mary wollstonecraft (author of a vindication of the rights of. American thomas paine (author of the rights of man, 1791) Sympathetic to the french revolution until it dissolved until it dissolved into the. Violently opposed to the principles of the enlightenment and scientific.
