William Blake S Religious Vision

Author : Jennifer Jesse
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739177914

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William Blake's Religious Vision by Jennifer Jesse Pdf

Analyzing Blake’s works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

Author : Jennifer G. Jesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1391890786

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William Blake's Religious Vision by Jennifer G. Jesse Pdf

Author : Morris Eaves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521786770

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The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves Pdf

Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.

Author : Jennifer G. Jesse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780739177907

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William Blake's Religious Vision by Jennifer G. Jesse Pdf

Analyzing Blake's works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786455485

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William Blake and Religion by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake's life and work. This book examines the effect that Blake's mother's recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry, and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake's poetry, which examines in detail the subjects of religion, sex, and the attempted colonization of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group.

Author : Marsha Keith Schuchard
Publisher : Inner Traditions
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594772118

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William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision by Marsha Keith Schuchard Pdf

The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake’s creative and spiritual life • Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake’s mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation • Shows Blake had access to kabbalistic and tantric techniques of psychoerotic meditation, which used sexual arousal to achieve spiritual vision William Blake (1757-1827) has long been treasured as an artist and poet whose work was born out of authentic spiritual vision. The acutely personal, almost otherworldly look of his artwork, combined with its archetypal casting and depth of emotion, transcend societal conventions and ordinary experience. But much of the overtly sexual work has been destroyed or altered, deemed too heretical by conservative elements among the mystic Moravians and Swedenborgians, whose influence on Blake has been uncovered only recently. The author’s investigation into the radical psychosexual spiritual practices surrounding William Blake, which includes new archival discoveries of Blake family documents, reveals that Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation fueled much of Blake’s creative and spiritual life. Drawing also upon modern art restoration techniques, Marsha Keith Schuchard shows that Blake and his wife, Catherine, were influenced by secret kabbalistic and tantric rituals designed to transcend the bonds of social convention. Her exhaustive research provides a new context for understanding the mystical practices at the heart of Blake’s most radical beliefs about sexualized spirituality and its relation to visionary art.

Author : Kathleen Raine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Artists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040155983

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The Divine Vision by Kathleen Raine Pdf

A collection of nine essays on Blake as artist & poet, originally issued in celebration of the bicentennial of his birth.

Author : John Higgs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474614361

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William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547001249

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All Religions Are One & There Is No Natural Religion by William Blake Pdf

All Religions are One is the title of a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with relief etching in the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blake's first successful attempt to combine image and text via relief etching, and are thus the earliest of his illuminated manuscripts. As such, they serve as a significant milestone in Blake's career. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Author : Charles Gardner
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126991681

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Vision & Vesture by Charles Gardner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Paddington Press, Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bible
ISBN : IND:39000003202673

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The Book of Job by Anonim Pdf

With a new introduction by Michael Marqusee.

Author : Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher : East Lansing, Michigan State U. P
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004705961

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The New Apocalypse: the Radical Christian Vision of William Blake by Thomas J. J. Altizer Pdf

Author : Rudd E. Margaret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381327

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Divided Image by Rudd E. Margaret Pdf

First published in 1953, this book examines Blake’s vision and its impact on the work of Yeats who imitated Blake in the hope that he might find that same vision. Margaret Rudd’s approach is literary as well as philosophical, and psychological and she discusses the work of both poets in this way.

Author : Selina Kunz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640416103

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William Blake’s idiosyncratic beliefs and his poetry by Selina Kunz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Trier (Fachbereich II, Anglistik), course: Literature and Religion: From the Renaissance to Romanticism, language: English, abstract: The English poet and painter William Blake appears to be mysterious, mainly because his works are not easy to comprehend. His poems and books are full of religious and philosophical questions and metaphors, some of his works are even accompanied by paintings which make his legacy even more complex. Blake lived in revolutionary times. The era can be characterised as a time of big upheavals and major changes in society. Reasons for this are the French and the American Revolution which had an influence on writers of the early Romantic period. Furthermore the first signs of industrialisation in the late 18th century showed the need for political reforms. A connection between the events in France and the apocalyptic prophecies in the bible was drawn - a belief in a universal peace, similar to the promise of paradise following this apocalypse in the bible. When this hope was not satisfied, thinkers did not abandon it, but started a quiet, moralistic revolution. In Blake’s work, both the social criticism and the religious aspect can clearly be found. This paper wants to find out about William Blake’s (religious) beliefs which are often seen as idiosyncratic. It tries to explain the most significant influences on Blake and his writing by illustrating his relationship with the Church of his time, the ideas of the Deist movement and the influence of the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Afterwards it will describe the influences of religion on the well-known volumes of poetry “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” by commenting on exemplary poems of both volumes.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802068650

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The Double Vision by Northrop Frye Pdf

The Double Vision originated in lectures delivered at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto, the texts of which were revised and augmented.