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Voici donc les derniers textes encore inédits de William Blake qui vont de la pleine maturité à sa mort. Contrairement à l'usage commun Blake ne prédit pas forcément l'avenir, il vaticine et profère des vérités éternelles auxquelles est confrontée la vérité humaine.
Dans un ensemble formellement hétéroclite (Jérusalem, Le fantôme d'Abel, des aphorismes autour d'un Laocoön, des marginalia, l'ébauche d'un Évangile à jamais, des lettres enfin) se fait jour une constante unité de propos.
Le Blake des dernières années est " un homme sans masque, au but unique, au chemin tracé tout droit ", " ayant peu de besoins, il était libre, noble et heureux ". Que dit Blake avec tant de constance et avec une netteté croissante ? Que notre imagination est humano-divine, qu'elle est identique au Verbe et donc que l'homme peut rejoindre après bien des larmes le cosmos, le monde matériel n'étant qu'une projection illusoire et éphémère, l'Homme, atome constitutif de l'univers est appelé à devenir le Christ, qui déjà l'habite.
Après les combats terribles contre l'esprit mercantile, l'exploitation des enfants et des hommes, il semble bien que William Blake ait atteint ici à la réconciliation des deux mondes (le réel et le spirituel) et donc à une certaine sérénité.

Ecrits Prophetiques Des Dernieres Annees Suivis De Lettres

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with   the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Blake's illuminated books, produced from 1783-1795, are remarkable examples   of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the   real with the mythical. 
Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and   paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal   representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out   his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four   personified elements: 
"Los, the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen, the   reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful   Christ of the New; Luvah, the senses; and Tharmas, the emotions". Each   of these characters has an emanation, or female "offshoot", who is   commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male   counterpart.
"William Blake (1757 - 1827) was an English poet, painter, and   printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered   a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the   Romantic Age.

Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Jerusalem (Illuminated Manuscript with the   Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader   with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus,   accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to   what is now England and visited Glastonbury during the unknown years of   Jesus. The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation  describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus   establishes a new Jerusalem. The Christian Church in general, and the English   Church in particular, has long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a   place of universal love and peace. 
In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit   by Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the   "dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution. Blake's poem   asks  questions rather than asserting   the historical truth of Christ's visit. Thus the poem merely implies that   there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly   heaven in England.
William Blake (1757 - 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic,   and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books.  Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the   imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely   unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in   the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Jerusalem (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Ghost of Abel: A Revelation In the Visions   of Jehovah Seen by William Blake (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original   Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a   functional and detailed table of contents.
Eternity, Jehovah, Adam, Eva, Cains, Death, Sin
This brief drama addressed to Lord Byron, whose Cain, a Mystery appeared in   1821, treats the themes of revenge, atonement, forgiveness, and   self-annihilation through the reactions of Adam, Eve, Satan, and Jehovah to   the first murder. The two plates of the work were etched in relief in 1822.   
William Blake (1757 - 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic,   and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books.  Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the   imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely   unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in   the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

The Ghost of Abel: A Revelation In the Visions of Jehovah Seen by William Blake (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

Two classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable corruption by a harsh and unjust world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Publisher's Note.

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Experience (Illuminated Manuscript   with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of   Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first   published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of   Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and   colored by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and   Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates.   The spelling, punctuation and capitalization are those of the original   Blake manuscripts.
William Blake (1757 - 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic,   and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books.  Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the   imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely   unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in   the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. 
CONTENT:
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod and the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Chimney-Sweeper
Nurse's Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tiger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah, Sunflower
The Lily
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
A Divine Image
A Cradle Song
The Schoolboy
To Tirzah

Songs of Experience (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

Reproduces the texts and the fifty-four hand-colored etchings of Blake's famous and now much sought-after double volume of lyrics

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