Proverbes de l'enfer - Edition bilingue français-anglais

Introduits par le Livre de Thel (1789), figure de la prise de conscience enfantine de la Mort, le Mariage du Ciel et de l Enfer (1793) et l'Évangile éternel (1818), réunis ici pour la première fois en seul volume, sont les deux " réécritures " blakiennes de la Torah juive et des Évangiles chrétiens. Blake l'affirme lui-même : il veut écrire une autre Bible - il va jusqu'à évoquer une " Bible de l'Enfer ". Messie négatif, transgresse-t-il la " loi " pour mieux l'affirmer ? De quel " Exil " serait-il la promesse enfin tenue ? Au-delà des " influences " et des " sens ", qu'est-ce qui motive le poète ? Blake n'est pas, comme le voulut Bataille, un poète du Mal. Il " montre " le Mal, mais c'est pour le fondre dans la Contradiction universelle, pour démontrer qu'il mène à la possibilité du Bien ! Il s'en prend vigoureusement aux " institutions ", mais sa Bible noire et son Evangile blanc sont des approches poétiques et mystiques qui dessinent les contours de la même Loi fondamentale : il y a du symbolique et ce champ est la dimension et l'espace du Père. Excellent connaisseur de la Bible et de la Kabbale - jusqu'à apprendre l'hébreu pour les lire dans le texte -, loin de vouloir brûler les Livres, il en rappelle l'évidence poétique. Le feu qui y brille est celui de la révolte intérieure, de l'aspiration à l'Absolu, l'appel sans fin à la transgression suprême et quotidienne. Alain Suied.

Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer précédé de Le Livre de Thel et suivi de L'Evangile Eternel

Longtemps présenté comme un précurseur ou un «pré-romantique», William Blake (1757-1827) apparaît bien plus désormais comme un génie singulier, un visionnaire au sens absolu du terme, auteur d'une ouvre irréductible et multiforme. Dessinateur, graveur, peintre, aquarelliste autant que poète, philosophe et mystique, il est celui qui a le plus intimement décliné le pictural et le verbal afin de témoigner, par une mise en miroir, des résonances et des énigmes d'une même réalité.Farouchement libre et solitaire, opposé à tous les dogmes, il crée à la manière d'un prophète insoumis qui, après avoir célébré un Dieu sauveur, découvre le versant sombre et cruel de la Création, au point de procéder à une véritable inversion des valeurs. À cet égard, Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer, texte sarcastique s'il en est, se développe comme une charge violente et inspirée contre les églises, les lois et les conventions morales.Comme le souligne Jacques Darras dans son importante préface, l'oeuvre de William Blake vient en écho aux secousses révolutionnaires de son temps, mais c'est un écho sans cesse transfiguré, en cela voué à une révolution totale qui prend en compte toutes les forces en mouvement dans le champ du visible, du temporel, comme dans celui de l'invisible, de l'éternel.

Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer et autres poèmes

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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them, and whether they did not think at the time that they would be misunderstood, and so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answered: "I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception: but my senses discovered the infinite in everything; and as I was then persuaded, and remained confirmed, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote."

Then I asked: "Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?"

He replied: "All poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything..."

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

This   carefully crafted ebook: "For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise   (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William   Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Gates of Paradise, was first published in a limited run in 1793. In 1818 W. Blake changed the title to "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise", and   added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verses. The seventeen emblematic drawings and their   commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the   four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the   "mundane shell," encountering women, reaching for the moon of love   ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean. After several other   episodes he finally arrives at the death's door with Job's words: "I   have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister." There a female   figure is "Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the Web   of Life." 
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.

For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Innocence (Illuminated Manuscript   with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Songs of Innocence was the first of Blake's illuminated books published in   1789. It is a cheerful and optimistic   volume which concerns itself with such themes as springtime, children's   games, the freedom of the human spirit, and a kind and loving God. The poems   and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes   by hand. 
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
The Shepherd
The Echoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Blossom
The Chimney-Sweeper
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found
Laughing Song
A Cradle Song
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Night
Spring
Nurse's Song
Infant Joy
A Dream
On Another's Sorrow

Songs of Innocence (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.

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