The Everlasting Gospel: and Other Poems

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UPC:
9780942208078
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
9/1/2011
Author:
William Blake
Language:
english

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Blakes notebooks after his death disclose an unfinished poem titled The Everlasting Gospel. The message of the poem is enduring, and presents a humanist document with few parallels and perhaps no predecessors. Blakes personality was seen by his contemporaries as part genius, part nafjust the combination to touch areas of sensibility remote from the rest of us. But in fact good and evil are not at all remote, they are simply removed from our daily considerations. To live with such consciousness, and with such conviction to shout against the platitudes of our lives, may be possible only for such a personality. Blakes ability to step outside the conventional thinking of his day (and of ours) gave him a point of view from which he could critically re-evaluate cherished values and expectations of the Christian tradition, such as good and evil.

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