/lit/ - Literature

what in the everloving fuck was his problem?

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>>22772323
*AHEM*

>>22697547
This
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This

Does he hold a candle to Shakespear?

>restores your faith

>Every Night & every Morn
>Some to Misery are Born
>Every Morn and every Night
>Some are Born to sweet delight
>Some are Born to sweet delight
>Some are Born to Endless Night
>We are led to Believe a Lie
>When we see not Thro the Eye
>Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night
>When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light
>God Appears & God is Light
>To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
>But does a Human Form Display
>To those who Dwell in Realms of day

Yea, I get what it's saying, but it reads like it was written by an 8 year old on DMT

>>22600755
Whitman isn’t even the greatest English language poet

I love William Blake so much it’s unreal

>>22320144
>perfects Nietzsche's philosophy before Nietzsche was even born
sorry, but even poles get mogged by big anglo cock.

>>22215124
*blocks your path*

Maybe William Blake's prophetic books? Depends on how strictly you define "Christian"

What does imaginative literature (in the form of poetry, novels, and plays) teach us? It doesn't teach us particular things about particular subjects, of course. Does it broaden our understanding of human culture? Does it widen our cognitive awareness of human life? If that's the case, then its benefits are unquantifiable, and we cannot have a definite discussion around it.

I've been reading Northrop Frye's study of Blake, "Fearful Symmetry", and I think I have just been converted to Blakean Idealism. Blake believes the creative impulse in man is his true perception, and that the human imagination is at the center of culture on a universal scale. Art synthesizes our experience, unlike rational philosophy, which does not create new images but establishes relationships between images we already have, which are partial and thus partial in their appeal, unlike the human imagination, which creates new images and forcibly persuades us by its examples and illustrations, which are more powerful than doctrines and precepts. The imaginations primary function, to Blake, is the re-creation of a hostile natural world into a Garden of Eden which fits our desires as a creative beings, with art being the medium for this visionary process (humans are thus natural visionaries). Wisdom is, then, the "application of the imaginative vision taught by art".

What do you think? I'm very impressed by his theory, which goes in line with how I read philosophy (I think an imaginative response to philosophy is the only way to get anything out of the subject).

"Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world." Northrop Frye.

I've been reading William Blake's prophetic books and I find interesting how some of his ideas influenced movements and eventually were realized a century after his death, but at the same it seems that they eventually were co-opted by conglomerates (and probably american government agencies but that's another discussion) as tools to sell and advertise.
I wonder how he would feel, as the industrial world had only begun when has alive.

Satan's

holy shit

What do you Make of Blake? Was he on to something, or just insane? Why are so many poets and authors obsessed with him, from Shelley to Alan Moore? Was he a political figure, or did he transcend such things?

Is Blake's argument against Druidism and Newtonian science (i.e. natural religion and natural philosophy) primarily an argument for transcendent causes, that the Christian god (and the poet/prophet who channels Christ) can enter the natural world of finite causation and neccesity (that neccessrily must always result in "eternal death") from "outside" and inject new life and chains of contingent causation into the natural world from the infinite ground of Eden/Golgonooza, akin to Schelling's ungrund?

Blake & Druidism
http://ramhornd.blogspot.com/2021/06/blake-druid.html

I want to get into William Blake's work.

What are the must-reads?
Is there a Mega link to his collected works?

>*blocks your path*

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Wrong

>solves religion
>unifies eastern and western philosophy
>never mentioned in /lit/
makes sense you're all midwits

He might actually be the most talented person to ever live