EN 2643 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
25 Jun 2017
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Heaven in a wild ower, eternity in a grain of sand . Age 4: starts having visions (god, tree of angels, ezekiel in a eld, etc) Age 21: royal academy of arts - dropped out. Catherine boucher: 1782 (25) - marries sweet shadow of light , teaches literacy & visions. Symmetry: most important aspect of his work. 1784 age 27: sets up a print shop. 1787 age 30: brother dies & talk through visions - inspires to create illuminated etching. 1787 age 30: songs of innocence book. 1794 age 37: songs of experience book (handout - the tiger) 1800-1803 (43-46): works with william hayley (minor poet, tried curing blake"s vision) Milton; book (written from 1800-1810) - writes about this period. Madness & genius: madness is a sign of creativity - Accused of sedition: king is evil - trial, not guilty. Accused of fraud: false accusation for frescos business idea. Un-liked: unlike lewis carroll & others, he was un-liked, outsider.
