416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)
The History of Literature
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Imagination and Perception
The poet wrote a poem about an argument he had with a thistle. He believed that the world as we see it was part of the universe, not just our own imaginations. The notion that things like color and sound don't exist in the world is called naive realism.
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