英国文学史及选读---Part-VI--The-18th-Century-6.pptVIP

The 18th Century 6 William Blake The Tiger William Blake William Blake William Blake Poet / Artist Born: 28 November 1757 Birthplace: London, England Died: 12 August 1827 Best Known As: Mystic English poet 1. Major works 1757-1827 1. Major works 1757-1827 Poetical Sketches 素描诗集; Songs of Innocence 天真之歌; Songs of Experience 经验之歌; The French Revolution 法国革命; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 天堂与地狱的婚姻; The Book of Urizen 尤里曾的书; 1. Major works 1757-1827 The Book of Los 洛斯的书; The Four Zoas 四个成熟的个体; America 亚美利加; Europe 欧罗巴; Milton 弥尔顿; Jerusalem 耶路撒冷; London; The Tiger 2. Life and career ---- poet engraver William Blake started writing poems as a boy, many of them inspired by religious visions. Apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, Blake learned skills that allowed him to put his poems and drawings together on etchings (蚀刻版画, 蚀刻术, 铜版画), and he began to publish his own work. Throughout his life he survived on small commissions, never gaining much attention from the London art world. His paintings were rejected by the public (he was called a lunatic for his imaginative work), but he had a profound influence on Romanticism as a literary movement. 2. Life and career---- Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience In 1787 Blake produced Songs of Innocence (1789) as the first major work in his new process. This book was later complemented by Songs of Experience (1794). The magnificent lyrics in these two collections systematically contrast the unguarded openness of innocence with the embitteredness (痛苦; 难受) of experience. 2. Life and career----The Marriage of Heaven and Hell After a brief period of admiration for the religious thinker Emanuel Swedenborg, Blake produced in disillusioned reaction The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793). In this satire the devils are identified with energy and creative genius, and the angels with repression of desire and the oppressive aspects of order and rationality.