416 William Blake vs the World (with John Higgs)
The History of Literature
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Blake's Mythology of Characters
Blake's work, i men ecrater tis, this whold new mythology of characters a irely from his own mind. Most artists at the time would use greek mythology or e biblical stories athey shared myths. For blake, they bertrayed a world that wasn't quite right. So he saw, created his own. And all the different characters represented different aspects of the human mind in a way that prefigures psychology. I mean, amotion recollected in tranquillity of wordsworth blake would probably say, now, this is, this is just reality that's on fire.
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