William Blake eBooks

Poems. E-book. Formato EPUB William Blake   -  Rea Multimedia, 2026  - 

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he came to be highly regarded by later critics and readers for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic". He was hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), and was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions. Although later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amicable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Michael Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary", and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".

Poesie. E-book. Formato EPUB William Blake   -  Rea Multimedia, 2022  - 

La parola che definisce con maggiore precisione il genio poetico di William Blake (1757-1827) è “visionario”. Influenzato dal neoplatonismo, da Swedenborg, da Bohme, dalla Cabala e soprattutto dal Vecchio e Nuovo Testamento, nei libri profetici presenti in questa raccolta di poesie, il poeta inglese traccia un quadro esoterico e potentemente animato, nel quale s’intrecciano le più svariate mitologie e simbolismi. Sull’assunto di fondo che l’artista è soprattutto un veggente, dotato della facoltà di penetrare nella verità fantastica del cosmo, queste poesie offrono una rappresentazione vividamente drammatica dei temi ricorrenti in tutta l’opera di Blake; la falsità della morale, la natura divina dell’energia e dell’immaginazione, la negatività delle ideologie meccanicistiche nate dall’industrialismo, l’unità mistica dell’universo.