I was curious what the members here would consider to be their favourite work by Blake whether it be examples of his poetry, his painting or a combination of both?
My favourite has to be The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It was the first Blake I ever read and I was really impressed with his imagination, his use of language and his convictions. I think it's certainly the wittiest work he ever did and possibly the most subversive (which I admit is a big statement to make considering his entire career can be seen as a reaction against the status Quo).
Anyone have any thoughts?
My favourite has to be The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It was the first Blake I ever read and I was really impressed with his imagination, his use of language and his convictions. I think it's certainly the wittiest work he ever did and possibly the most subversive (which I admit is a big statement to make considering his entire career can be seen as a reaction against the status Quo).
Anyone have any thoughts?
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Wed, December 22, 2004 - 1:17 PMHis Tone Poem: JERUSALEM
with music by E H Parry ~1914? -
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Mon, December 27, 2004 - 2:55 PMThis is also a good ringtone I've been told :)
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Tue, January 18, 2005 - 4:26 PMOne of my favorites: "The Lamb":
"Little lamb, who made thee?
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Sat, January 22, 2005 - 7:26 PMAh because I am so damn political, I choose Milton.
To justify the Ways of God to Men
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato &
Cicero. which all Men ought to contemn: are set up by artifice
against the Sublime of the Bible. but when the New Age is at
leisure to Pronounce; all will be set right: & those Grand Works of the more ancient & consciously & professedly Inspired Men,
will hold their proper rank, & the Daughters of Memory shall
become the Daughters of Inspiration. Shakspeare & Milton were
both curbd by the general malady & infection from the silly Greek
& Latin slaves of the Sword.
Rouze up O Young Men of the New Age! set your foreheads
against the ignorant Hirelings! For we have Hirelings in the
Camp, the Court, & the University: who would if they could, for
ever depress Mental & prolong Corporeal War. Painters! on you I
call! Sculptors! Architects! Suffer not the fash[i]onable Fools
to depress your powers by the prices they pretend to give for
contemptible works or the expensive advertizing boasts that they
make of such works; believe Christ & his Apostles that there is a
Class of Men whose whole delight is in Destroying. We do not
want either Greek or Roman Models if we are but just & true to
our own Imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall
live for ever; in Jesus our Lord.
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
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Mon, May 23, 2005 - 1:58 AMGreg Brown turned this and Tiger into songs. Have you heard them? They are beautiful. P.s. I like your name.
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Wed, April 27, 2005 - 9:10 AMJerusalem for sure. Even though as i read this epic work i sunk into a labyrinth in my own personal life wherin i became albion and was cast into darkness and haunted by the love i had ignored and the temptress who cunningly seduced me ... ah ... it was an intense time in my personal affairs and all the while i read blake's jerusalem again and again out loud and in my head ----- boiling up inside me and burning my notepads with brilliant/chaotic/incoherent notes on the genius and the Genius and the Oblivion. but it's a great work of art with amazing paintings.
as far as paintings go though, my favorties are the ones to dante's divine comedy. splendid. out of those i love the 'mission of virgil' i want in tatoo'd on me back. -
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Thu, February 8, 2007 - 8:47 AMI will also say that I appreciate 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.'
I read it in a literary class at school and the class discussion that surrounded it ended up totally blowing me away. -
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Mon, April 16, 2007 - 12:27 PMThe Human Abstract
when i was in the 9th grade this pem changed my life
it was the first poem that described how i felt about life or i should say put life how i've seen it go for others and myself to a 'T'. -
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Tue, April 17, 2007 - 7:03 AMThe Human Abstract, great poem, one of my favorites in my all-time fave Blake cluster of works "Songs of Innocence and Experience"... along with Ah! Sunflower, Little Vagabond, The Chimney Sweeper. All these works made up the spoken text for a paratheatre performance I was in around 1978. I returned to Blake in 1999 in my 2-act play, "Hungry Ghosts of Albion" where the main characters were the ghosts of William Blake and Sir Isaac Newton trapped on a life raft together and lost at sea. You can imagine they had a few bones to pick. LOL -
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Wed, June 27, 2007 - 11:08 AMi would really like to see that, or read, have you a written version?
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Wed, June 27, 2007 - 11:05 AMthe my favourite poem has to be the fly, it made me aware of the fragility and equality of all life.
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Thu, June 28, 2007 - 5:25 AM
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Thu, June 28, 2007 - 6:43 PMHi ya all,
Mine would be: 'Beatrice addressing Dante from the Car" pen and watercolour 1824-7
I was so inspired by the two geniuses Dante/ Blake that I have painted several of mine pwn version.
I was so happy one of them was accepted to be shown at the Grace Cathedral in SF backin........1992!
Hikaru
