Being taught Blake in my teens was one of the things that turned me on to poetry. I remember the teacher reading 'London' to us, hearing the phrase "mind-forged manacles" and turning to the girl next to me, at the same time she turned to me, and both mouthing 'fucking hell wooow!'.
William Blake, a true revolutionary and his weapons were Art and Vision.@Iain Sinclair time traveled to the past and explained what was happening on that time and what provokes William Blake to write and visualize all his majestic works. He explained everything with such calmness that i almost time traveled with him !! Truly amazing video. Thanks to +The British Library.
The belfast singer Van Morrison ,got me into Blake when he quoted "wisdom is sold in the desolate marketplace where no-one comes to buy or in the withered fields where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain "
But Blake said that every man should be priest and king in his own house, expressed admiration for medieval Catholic theocracy and lamented that so many people in his day were bothering their heads about politics rather than the one thing needful i. e. Imagination. Blake is always far more complex and challenging that these simplistic portraits of the naive artisan radical might suggest. He was, in his own words, 'a mental prince'. Blake's revolution is not socio-political but Imaginal. It is endless 'mental fight' to break the oppressive fetters of Urizenic law that darken the 'fourfold vision' of the man of Imagination.
I would not use such angles of sharp characterization as you had he been living even one word (i have feeling much more , even a dozen approximation, is rough shod betting character is shameful to a man so great so unheard deserves only the imagination best left like a LAMB innocent of this slandering forward spoken judgemental word of Apostacy surely he (Blake covered them all in real thought, even metaphorically a practical imagination and good free thinking brilliant soul a unique individual much less than words can ever poetically squander or exactly charter as ye weak sauce lol fr. Im never pen a political or Popery attachment to this man thats a cheap puff of smoke up not my a$$ 😂
@@r.l.morrone1105nieve suggests? Who would care such a silly voice. Nieve rebel? Huh? He did not hear what spirit followed in action. How would any suggest or recite such a word of even another in context to Blake? Thats absurd! 😂
The concerns Blake had are still concerns today. Although, they present themselves in ways enabled by the collected varieties born out of previous versions they continue to move these concerns forward fortifying them. keeping in check what one day checkmate.
Sinclair is so amazing. He amazes. He takes us through the maze of 'chartered' streets and loses us in the laberynth of his imagination. I wonder if he is the minotaur? He mocks majesty and though not crazy risks his sanity in the Thames gravel to unravel the clear depravity of bartered Picassos and broken down Archers.
I would think that the Industrial Revolution would represent man's achievement over nature. A new type of creative imagination that give us control over our environment.
Blake identified the wheels, cogs and escarpments of the industrial revolution and the 'dark satanic mills' with the fallen and dead mechanistic universe of the Age of Reason, imprisoning and impoverishing the human spirit under its reductionistic tyranny.
No, not to me! Blake was a mystic - a radical genius devoted to the highest realm of the imagination - a uniquely powerful sense of social and personal non-conformity - a visionary with individual Christian spiritual connections to the Divine - as his work makes clear - this all made him far more than a political revolutionary... This film is misleading because it's far too simplistic. He was a man of otherworldly prophetic ART tied into profound, overriding Faith... His unconventionality was all-consuming - he would never have fought with a 'side' in such a bloody fiasco - like some kind of 'rationalist' puppet... Whether he once wore a kepi rouge or not - or cursed the King for the miserable social injustices witnessed around him at that time, the atheist French radicals would have been worse than utter demons to him. He was a profound patriot - a true Londoner - more a loving compassionate champion of the poor, the downtrodden and the innocent, than a man of fire and bloody hatred. A rebel, yes - even a peculiar dissenter... But a rebel against even the rebels. An outsider - a complete marginal - a sheer enigma - a consummate original. A kind and good man. I see him far more like this.
You clearly understand nothing of Blake or the French revolution. Demonic forces were and are at play. Blake was an Englishman and a Christian - and would have no part in the demonic monstrousness of what followed. If you are a leftist and an atheist in the cult of Scientism and the Machine, then I can promise you that you people for your political (satanic) mission do not own Blake!! Nice try though… Maybe you can be luckier with someone else, but not me. Blake is far deeper and far higher than you can yet comprehend. Hope you wake up soon.
Put all the bad people’s heads on pikes what would that solve? Go to the root and destroy that, the root of all evil. Evil isn’t effected by its own nature such as violence and bitterness though, what else options is there?
