CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Demiurge, Emanuel Swedenborg, Urizen
27 Sep 2016
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William blake: engraver, make own prints, illustrate his writings, handmade books. Write directly on the copper plate in his own beautiful handwriting. The texts of these books are cryptic and obscure, but blake insisted that their meaning would become clear after long and careful study. Although blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the romantic movement and as pre-romantic. Reverent of the bible but hostile to the church of. England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the. Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist thomas. Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as.
