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William Blake: The Epics Audiobook
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William Blake was an unconventional radical in his day, an early member of the Romantics and heavily influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg's esoteric philosophy. His wild imagination, with its undercurrents of mysticism, spiritualism, and philosophy, is apparent in two of Blake's epics included here, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and America, a Prophecy.
Though he lived in poverty and died without much recognition, Blake's vivid and intense work is still relevant in the modern day, inspiring artists as diverse as the Beat poets, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Jim Morrison. His visionary poetry and art made a significant contribution to Western thought, and he was canonized as Gnostic Saint by the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica in 1997.
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About William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, artist, and printmaker. Although largely unrecognized during his lifetime, he is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He is held in high regard by critics for his expressiveness and creativity and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. He produced a diverse and symbolically rich body of works that embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself.” Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England, he was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Emanuel Swedenborg.
About Richard Mitchley
Richard Mitchley is an actor and narrator who has appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…, The Black Adder, and Doctor Who.