Blake seeks to provide the Golden String which can lead us through the labyrinth of our experience or his own poetry.

Friday, October 23, 2020

VIDEOS

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Illustrations to Poems of Thomas Gray

Jerusalem, Plate 34 [38], (E 179)
"but mild the Saviour follow'd him, Displaying the Eternal Vision! the Divine Similitude! In loves and tears of brothers, sisters, sons, fathers, and friends Which if Man ceases to behold, he ceases to exist: Saying. Albion! Our wars are wars of life, & wounds of love, With intellectual spears, & long winged arrows of thought: Mutual in one anothers love and wrath all renewing We live as One Man; for contracting our infinite senses We behold multitude; or expanding: we behold as one, As One Man all the Universal Family; and that One Man We call Jesus the Christ: and he in us, and we in him, Live in perfect harmony in Eden the land of life, Giving, recieving, and forgiving each others trespasses."
Letters, To Thomas Butts, (E 722)
"Los flamd in my path & the Sun was hot With the bows of my Mind & the Arrows of Thought My bowstring fierce with Ardour breathes My arrows glow in their golden sheaves"

Blake was an innovator, an inventor. It is satisfying to see that in our age innovators and inventors have turned to the tools that are now available in order to present Blake in ways which were unavailable in his contemporary world. In order to give a flavor of ways Blake's life and work is being reinvented, I have selected four videos from the many which are available on YouTube. For more information about the subject of the video, click on the link to a post which treats similar ideas.


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Inner Reality

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William Blake South Bank Show

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Imaginative Art

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Spiritual Visions

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Palmer

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Ancients

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This review is to prepare you for the nudity which is present in the film.

Review of In Lambeth

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In Lambeth


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