William Blake

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The paper provides an overview of the life of William Blake. The paper discusses Blake's poetry and art and describes how it is continually concerned with the assertion of the hidden mystery in common things and in ordinary life. The paper discusses Blake's rebellion against convention and conventional conceptions of reality. The paper also looks at his unique engraving and illustrations of his poems.

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Introduction
A Critical Overview of His Life
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"William Blake is commonly known as a cardinal figure among the Romantic poets in English literature. However Blake was also a painter, engraver as well as a visionary and mystic. These qualities in his works and artistic oeuvre have only been fully recognized in fairly recent scholarly criticism, through the works of Harold Bloom and others. Central to his work is the veneration of the independence of the human imagination and the rejection of what he saw as the suppression of the imagination and the propensity towards the divine that was embodied in his critique of modern rationality and authoritarianism. All these themes were to be combined in an artistic and poetic unity in his works."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Blake, William. Songs of Innocence: Lyrics from the Works of William Blake. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Questia. 17 Apr. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101414434>.
• Digby, George Wingfield. Symbol and Image in William Blake. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Questia. 17 Apr. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54748962>.
• Encyclopedia Britannica. Volume 3. London: William Benton, 1964.
• Gardner, Charles. William Blake: The Man. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1919. Questia. 17 Apr. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=66120334>.
• Harvey P. ( ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1967. The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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