Appunti di inglese su William Blake

Imagination

Man could know the world with IMAGINATION power of vision and creation

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Blake’s interest in social problems

Supported abolition of slavery and egalitarian principles

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Against Industrial Revolution

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Sublime

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1 century AD sublime = beautiful

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The Spectator sublime ≠ beautiful

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Burke sublime opposite of beautiful

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Sublime must be discussed paying attention also to the effects on the perceiver

ADMIRATION

OCEAN SUBLIME REVERENCE

OBSCURITY RESPECT

INFINITIVE

Literature gothic novel

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Immanuel Kant sublime derives from the conflict between reason and sensibility

 Origin of the sublime in the perceiver

William Wordsworth

Cumberland 1770 – 1850 in the English Lake District

Influenced by the French Revolution democratic ideas

 Brutal development nervous

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breakdown

Importance of nature

With Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads with “Manifesto of English

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Romanticism”

Masterpiece “The Prelude”

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Relationship with the nature

Important interaction between men and nature

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Natural object described attention paused on the reactions of the perceiver

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Man and nature inseparable

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Nature a way to escape from man’s sorrow (you receive joy from the nature)

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Importance of senses sight and hearing

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The poet’s task

Poet greater sensibility

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