William Blake

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Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

«Innocence» and «Experience» are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of «Paradise» and «Fall». Blake categorizes our modes of perception that became standard in Romanticism:...

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William Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)

«The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.» The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Blake - Garden of Love

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He was...

Claudia Salto and 13 more 13 minutes

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William Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work...

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Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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William Blake - Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion

The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an engraved book of 100 pages (only one copy of which was every fully finished in...

Nick Duncan 6 hours 53 minutes

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William Blake - Jerusalem

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008.

Anna Roberts and 8 more 9 minutes

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William Blake - First Book of Urizen

The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 35 minutes

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William Blake - Poems of William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself...

Sam Stinson 55 minutes

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William Blake - Milton: a Poem

Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living...

Brian Russell Graham and 1 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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William Blake - Tiger

LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger , by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 3rd, 2006.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 16 minutes

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William Blake - Voice of the Ancient Bard

Librivox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard , by William Blake. This is a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Hugh McGuire and 5 more 6 minutes

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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