AO3 Critics Flashcards
Raymond Williams (1)
Blake criticised his materialistic society for blunting imagination.
William blake (5)
For everything that lives is holy
Without contraries is no progression.
Man has essence of god in himself
I would sooner strangle an infant in it’s cradle, then nurse unacted desires
I must create my own system or be enslaved by another mans
J. Bronowski (2)
Blake saw Jesus Christ as spiritual goodness
God was associated with tyranny and repression (due to the distorted perspective of organised religion)
B.ifor Evans (1)
Blake was at best in simpler poems where wisdom speaks with the voice of a child
D w Harding (1)
Believes blake presents father figures as repressive (maybe to illustrate the corruption of the distorted view of traditional Christianity and how that god is repressive and vengeful)
J.Samuel (1)
Blake’s contemporaries thought him at best a harmless crank; a worst a madman
David punt (1)
‘London’ is the most concisely violent assault on establishment thinking that English poetry has produced
T. Vines (1)
Blake’s poems can be analysed as a response to a collapse in human innocence
Rousseau (1)
Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains
Rousseau (1)
To feel is to exist
Paine (1)
Government is in it’s native tyranny
Ackroyd (7)
Blake was an instinctive libertarian
Fierce radicalism characterised the politics of London
He was part of the first period of commercialisation and mass manufacture in English history
Among certain people a growing distrust for the industrialisation and commercialisation of English society
Blake had an ear for nursery rhymes
Cockney visionary
At a time of the war of France and the approach of the great terror of 1795, which marked the climacteric of the revolution, was to live in an atmosphere of continual suspicion, espionage and intrigue
