blake ao5

Blakes views on science:

he has nothing but c_ for e_ p_ who build their systems on s_-p_ instead of v_

“he has nothing but contempt for empiricist philosophers

who build their systems on sense-perception instead of vision”

“we d_ it is we who can l_ from the c_”

“we discover it is we who can learn from the children” - Michael Phillips

“Experience [is] a s_ of e_ in which we have e_ from the T_ of K_ and have been e_ from P_”

“Experience [is] a state of existence in which we have eaten from the Tree of Knowledge and have been evicted from Paradise” - Brassington

“The Songs of Experience are m_ p_ and m_ m_ than the Songs of Innocence”

“The Songs of Experience are more powerful and more magical than the Songs of Innocence” - C.M. Bowra

“Casting himself in a the d_ r_ of v_ and voice of c_”

“Casting himself in a the double role of visionary and voice of condemnation”

“a_ or g_ - or m_ - or m_? probably he is all”

“artist or genius - or mystic - or madman? probably he is all” - Robinson 1825

“Blakes poetry has the u_ of g_ p_”

“Blakes poetry has the unpleasantness of great poetry” - T.S. Eliot

“Blake is a g_ r_, d_, o_-n_ poet”

“Blake is a great radical, dissenting, one-nation poet” - Paulin

“Blake was a_ a_ a_ e_ t_”

“Blake was against anything anyone else thought” - Collings

“He lived through the rise of i_, c_ and r_. He was a_ all t_”

“He lived through the rise of industrialisation, commercialisation and rationalism. He was against all three” - Collings

“His v_ of c_ as i_ c_ and c_ mirrors the p_ t_ of his age”

“His vision of civilisation as inevitably chaotic and contradictory mirrors the political turmoil of his age”

n_ can t_ more “than all the s_ can”

nature can teach more “than all the sages can” - wordsworth

“innocence is a s_ of f_… but d_ s_ tend to h_ over it”

“innocence is a state of freedom… but darker shadows tend to hover over it”

“for blake p_ was a p_ of the w_ we s_ be able to w_”

“for blake paradise was a part of the world we should be able to walk” - John Higgs

“the most p_ w_ of the o_ is the m_ of the o_”

“the most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” - Steven Biko