William Blake - context & biography

Religious Beliefs:

1.Rationalism versus Methodism

2. Swedenbourg

Key historical context:

3. The groundwork for democracy

American revolution

French Revolution

4. Material wealth on a previously unimagined scale

5. Social factors

• Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667)

• Orientalism

• Works of Michelangelo

6. Enlightenment and Science

Philosophy:

7. Rousseau (1712-1728)