
William Blake vs the World
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John Higgs
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John Higgs
"A glittering stream of revelatory light.... Fascinating." (The Times)
"Rich, complex and original." (Tom Holland)
"One of the best books on Blake I have ever read." (David Keenan)
"Absolutely wonderful!" (Terry Gilliam)
"An alchemical dream of a book." (Salena Godden)
"Tells us a great deal about all human imagination." (Robin Ince)
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition, and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed, and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts people from all corners of society - a rare inclusive symbol of human identity.
Blake famously experienced visions, and it is these that shaped his attitude to politics, sex, religion, society, and art. Thanks to the work of neuroscientists and psychologists, we are now in a better position to understand what was happening inside that remarkable mind and gain a deeper appreciation of his brilliance. His timeless work, we will find, has never been more relevant.
In William Blake vs the World we return to a world of riots, revolutions, and radicals; discuss movements from the Levellers of the 16th century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s; and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics, and comparative religion.
Taking the listener on a wild adventure into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into fascinating context. And although the journey begins with us trying to understand him, we will ultimately discover that it is Blake who helps us to understand ourselves.
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Great Introduction to Blake
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Fantastic
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Excellent!
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Love the integration of contemporary culture and thought with Blake's life and times.
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Leads you to a better understanding of his times
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Understanding Blake and his World View
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Not really a biography but an exploration of Blake’s thought!!!
So great!!!
The narrator was amazing too!!!!
So good!!
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An integral part of my experience was referring to the search engines and finding digital reproductions of specific examples of Blake’s work, while the author was referring to them.
It appears that the life of this artist, who was penniless at his passing, equals those of the masters of any age, before or after.
A mystic of divine humanism
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Great examination of William Blake
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Wonderful- Imagination is All
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