William Blake

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jacke takes a look at the astonishing life and works of William Blake (1757-1827), a poet, painter, engraver, illustrator, visionary, and one of the key figures of the Romantic Period. How did the boy who saw God's head in a window at age four become the man who wrote the most anthologized poem in English ("The Tyger") AND perhaps the most brilliant and innovative visual artist that England has ever produced? We discuss all that and more! NOTE: Due to a host error, Blake's birth at one point is fast forwarded to the wrong century, erroneously placing him among 19th-century intellectuals such as Darwin. We regret the error, which is corrected in a subsequent episode. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: "Magistar" and "Wholesome" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello. In the entire history of literature, there's no one quite like William Blake.
0:20.0	Born in London in 1757, he became a poet, an engraver, a painter, and what we can only call a visionary.
0:29.5	In his day he was barely recognized, let alone acknowledged as the genius that he surely was.
0:35.0	And his works were often dismissed or overlooked
0:39.0	as confounded critics and a confused public
0:42.0	failed to appreciate their wild imagination and brilliant
0:46.4	innovation. He was viewed as an eccentric, a crank, a crackpot and within a few generations he was revered as one of the most original
0:56.2	poets and visual artists that England ever produced. Even today, his idiosyncratic style can take one's breath away, and although he's been admired
1:06.3	and imitated for a couple of centuries, his works still demand our attention.
1:11.8	And his poem, The Tiger, might be the most anthologized poem in the English
1:16.5	language.
1:18.1	Who was William Blake?
1:20.2	What kind of person was he?
1:22.0	Why was he believed to be mad? And how was he able to
1:25.2	persevere in spite of it? And what can we take from his works today?
1:31.2	We'll have the story of William Blake today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson. Happy
1:57.0	New Year. I guess we can say that. It's still January. We've received some great responses to our checkoff episode from last week.
2:05.9	I hope you've had a chance to listen to that one. Number 202. I'm not sure I can do a better one than
2:11.7	that. And after you run back through that one while you're
2:15.3	passing by please do hit the little five stars or whatever it is you can do to help us out
2:20.4	We're trying to grow this thing in 2020, this humble little podcast.
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