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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham), he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic". Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions. Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary", and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".
Actors: John T. Chase (actor), Niamh Coyne (actor), Christopher Craughwell (actor), Anthony Harrison (actor), Peter Heylin (actor), Annette Jordan (actor), Walter Pritchard (actor), Conan Rabbitt (actor),
Plot: Gabriel returns to his estranged home town after the death of his father. Confronted by the local priest, Gabriel soon discovers that all is not what is seems. Paranormal happenings in the night and the gruesome deaths of local people. Perhaps his father wasn't what he appeared to be. Now Gabriel and Fr. Malone must confront a treacherous evil before it destroys them.
Genres: Horror, Short, Thriller,Actors: Simon Phillips (producer), Simon Phillips (actor), Danny Dyer (actor), Gene Fallaize (producer), Tamer Hassan (actor), Lewis James (producer), Lewis James (actor), Phoenix James (actor), Johnny Lynch (actor), Samuel Victor (actor), Simon Neville (miscellaneous crew), Matthew David McCarthy (actor), Wayne Marc Godfrey (producer), Mick Slaney (actor), Ronan Vibert (actor),
Plot: A feature length thriller/horror set in post-apocalyptic London starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Simon Phillips, Ronan Vibert, Sebastian Street, Daisy Head, Rita Ramnani and John Mawson. The film tells the story of a cataclysmic event that leaves only 7 remaining people on earth and their desperate struggle to understand the events as they are hunted one by one by a demonic power.
Keywords: deserted-town, number-in-title, post-apocalypseActors: R.L. Scott (writer), R.L. Scott (director), Andre McCoy (actor), Monyque Thompson Scott (actress), Sean Riggs (writer), Sean Riggs (actor), Craig Zucchero (actor), Black Thomas (actor), Rich Ting (actor), Marc Jeffreys (producer), Joseph M. Moffitt (producer), Zachary Pope (producer), Sean Demarco Garcia (writer), Christopher Beaston (producer), Johnnathan Ashe (producer),
Plot: Fuse follows the story of brothers Trent and Leroy Thompson as they battle "The Association", a group of Italian gangsters lead by Ritchie Paziano. The Association create a record Label called "Clash Entertainment" as a way to recruit young street kids into organized crime. Trent, an undercover officer is sent in to investigate The Association for a new kind of firearm that is being smuggled into America through foreign sources. the weapons fire a unique bullet that detonates inside of the body on impact. Trent gains their trust. But when his brother is framed for a crime he didn't commit, he takes matters into his own hands... But at what cost.
Keywords: chicago, gangster, italian, one-word-title, undercover-policeActors: Kenneth Cranham (actor), Mel Raido (actor), Ben Pullen (actor), Jane Simon (miscellaneous crew), David Hayles (writer), Louis Caulfield (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Andre Royo (actor), Matti Pellonpää (actor), Mika Kaurismäki (actor), Joe Dallesandro (actor), Robert Davi (actor), Brent Morris (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Vincent Gallo (actor), Dominic Gould (actor), Monte Hellman (actor), Kenneth Hughes (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), James Le Gros (actor), Jerzy Skolimowski (actor),
Plot: An "aspiring Hollywood actress" (Vinessa Shaw), on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, actress, airplane, aspiring-actress, aspiring-musician, aspiring-writer, audition, autobiographical, based-on-novel, beachActors: Jim Jarmusch (writer), Neil Young (composer), Iggy Pop (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Michael Wincott (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), John Hurt (actor), Gary Farmer (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), Jared Harris (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Jim Jarmusch (director), Alfred Molina (actor),
Plot: Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody," who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th-century, accidental-shooting, accountant, african-american-man, animal-skull, anti-hero, arthouse, autograph, beachActors: Paul Verhoeven (director), Karl Walter Diess (actor), Frank Launder (writer), Helmut Pigge (writer), Paul Verhoeven (writer), Hans Jürgen Diedrich (actor), Herbert Fleischmann (actor), Ernst Stankovski (actor), Benno Sterzenbach (actor), Hans Zesch-Ballot (actor), Chariklia Baxevanos (actress), Christa Berndl (actress), Sidney Gilliat (writer), Hans Pössenbacher (actor), Heinz-Leo Fischer (actor),
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Plot: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.
Keywords: based-on-play, black-comedy, color-in-title, murderActors: Emlyn Williams (actor), Martita Hunt (actress), Cyril Smith (actor), Ralph Richardson (actor), Gordon Harker (actor), Muriel Aked (actress), Donald Calthrop (actor), O.B. Clarence (actor), Edmund Gwenn (actor), Eliot Makeham (actor), D.A. Clarke-Smith (actor), Gibb McLaughlin (actor), Wally Patch (actor), Percy Parsons (actor), Sidney Gilliat (writer),
Plot: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Keywords: blackmailer, bus-crashActors: Thomas H. Ince (miscellaneous crew), Mary Astor (actress), Louise Dresser (actress), Lillian Langdon (actress), Vera Lewis (actress), Florence Wix (actress), Bradley King (writer), George Archainbaud (director), Clive Brook (actor), George Bunny (actor), Lorimer Johnston (actor), Ian Keith (actor), Edgar Norton (actor), Maxine Elliott Hicks (actress), Aileen Manning (actress),
Genres: ,This documentary is a must see, if you are at all interested in the life and works of William Blake.
William Blake (1757 -- 1827) was an English poet, artist, and visionary. Considered something of an oddity during his lifetime, he is now celebrated as one of the central figures of the Romantic Movement in art and literature. Subscribe today! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=SocraticaStudios Circle us on Google+ at http://google.com/+socratica Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/socratica Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SocraticaStudios Host: Liliana de Castro Artwork: Kim Parkhurst Directed by Michael Harrison Written and Produced by Kimberly Hatch Harrison Creative Commons picture credits: William Blake's House in Felpham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_House_in_Felpham.JPG Author: Midnightblueowl William Blake memori...
Iain Sinclair visits William Blake's grave and discusses the spiritual visions that made up such a significant part of his life and work. Filmed at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London. Explore more films, together with thousands of Victorian and Romantic literary treasures, at the British Library's Discovering Literature website - http://www.bl.uk/discovering-literature.
Poems of William Blake by William Blake (1757-1827) - FULL Audio Book - Songs of Innocence and of Experience & The Book of Thel Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that Songs of Experience has always been published in conjunction with Innocence since its completion in 1794. Songs of Innocence mainly consists of poems describing the innocence and joy of the natural world, advocating free love and a closer relationship with God, and most famously including Blake's poem The Lamb. Its poems have a generally light, upbeat and pastoral feel and are typically written from the perspect...
MC & writer Akala talks to Mr Gee about William Blake's classic poem "London" (published in 1794). Poet & Radio Presenter Mr Gee: Presented BBC Radio 4's "Rhyme & Reason", "Bespoken Word" & 'Poetic Justice" Starred as "the poet" for the West End run of "Into the Hoods" Was the "poet laureate" for Russell Brand's SONY Award winning Radio Show (yes I was there during "Sachsgate") Supported Russell Brand on the "Messiah Complex" tour (first performance poet to do a set at the O2, in front of 17,000 people!), Had a cameo role in the film "Get Him To The Greek" Writes current affairs poems for BBC regional radio & is a regular contributor for National Prison Radio. "A charming and politically articulate street poet” - The Times Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrgeepoet Soundcloud: https://soun...
William Blake - God Is The Imagination - Gnostic
Iain Sinclair explores the historical background to William Blake's radical writings. Filmed on the South Bank of the River Thames, Vauxhall, London. Explore more films, together with thousands of Victorian and Romantic literary treasures, at the British Library's Discovering Literature website - http://www.bl.uk/discovering-literature.
The ten best quotes by the great English poet and painter William Blake! (1757 - 1827) See all quotes by Blake at http://www.iperceptive.com/authors/william_blake_quotes.html Enlighten yourself at http://www.iPerceptive.com The music used in this video is "Relent" from Kevin Mcleods website Incompetech.com Like iPerceptive at Facebook http://on.fb.me/raUG1o Follow iPerceptive at Twitter http://twitter.com/iPerceptive Follow iPerceptive at Pinterest http://bit.ly/113cbiL Follow iPerceptive at Google+ http://bit.ly/1PebOEx
The following dramatisation of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the introductory talk were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The Blake Society is grateful to the dramatiser for making this available. As with all the recordings they are available for mp3 download on the Blake Society web site at www.blakesociety.org.uk/voice. As always, we ask that those who have performed Blake's work to share with us a little of the experience. Below are the thoughts of the dramatiser Claire Peyton Jones. 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell lent itself perfectly to dramatization - I largely dramatized it as I heard it in my head; I could hear Blake's voice narrate, and the voices he used to drop in the proverbs and fancies - so all I had to do was appropriate these voices, and get a good audio balan...
Neville talks about the mystical William Blake and his spiritual revelation about the Imagination, States, Vision, Manifesting.
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Tate Britain and the British Council present 'William Blake and British Visionary Art'. The exhibition is open between 29 November 2011 and 26 February 2012 and introduces the art heritage of the English poet and artist William Blake (1757--1827), alongside works by such British masters of 19th -- 20th century art as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Samuel Palmer, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Francis Bacon and Cecil Collins, to a Moscow audience. These artists, in one way or another, appreciated Blake's spiritual experience and embodied it in their art. The core of the exhibition focuses on etchings, watercolours and tempera by William Blake, including 'The Judgment ...
The author Philip Pullman, President of The Blake Society, talks in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground at the gravestone of William Blake. Created by Curiocity. http://www.curiocity.org.uk
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Tate Britain and the British Council present 'William Blake and British Visionary Art'. The exhibition is open between 29 November 2011 and 19 February 2012 and introduces the art heritage of the English poet and artist William Blake (1757--1827), alongside works by such British masters of 19th -- 20th century art as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Samuel Palmer, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Francis Bacon and Cecil Collins, to a Moscow audience. These artists, in one way or another, appreciated Blake's spiritual experience and embodied it in their art. The core of the exhibition focuses on etchings, watercolours and tempera by William Blake, including 'The Judgment of P...
Interview with Rachel Searle and Will Harvey, members of the Big Blake Project. The group is based in Bognor Regis, and has launched a fund raising campaign to buy the cottage where poet William Blake once lived for three years. Once purchased, the cottage will be managed by an independent trust called Blake Cottage Society and transformed into a "centre of imagination".
LAST MINUTE OF INTERVIEW CUT OFF. MY APOLOGIES, BUT ALL YOU MISS IS TONY TYING IN DAEMON TO ROMANTIC POETS AND WE'RE DONE. This is our ongoing chronicle of Anthony's Cheating the Ferryman Hypothesis. Here we are...seemingly trapped in labyrinths of myriad realities, eternally reoccurring and eternally begetting, reincarnated and recycled in a vast universe...but there is hope to escape the Black Iron Prison if we find a way to not board Charon's boat this one time outside of time...
William Blake's Ah Sunflower (1793), read by Allen Ginsberg, remixed this from a longer interview Ginsberg gave shortly before his death .
INTERVIEW BEGINS AT MINUTE 26. SORRY, GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH INTRODUCTION. William Blake's visionary message is more relevant than ever. We mine his soul and psyche in order to understand how this amaranthine poet was able to harness both sublime art and sober prophesy from the eternal realms. We compare and contrast his views to other timeless luminaries of The Esoterica, as well as fully understand his impact on modern culture. Most importantly--from a new book that truly maps the landscape of Blake's imagination--we learn how each one of us can draw from the same creative wellsprings. A show not to be missed if you're a truthseeker or artist of any stripe; creator or inventor of any kind; or just an individual ready to break off the oppressive chains society placed on your inner Prometh...
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'The Fly' by William Blake (1757-1827) was first published in 1794 For more, and to find out why this is a great poem, visit: http://www.robertstephenparry.com/poem-the-fly.html
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Preface ends at 11:32 mark and main book start at 11:50 mark. Mysticism Part 1, History of Mystics (Jacob Boehme, Emmanuel Swedenborg, William Blake, Dante, etc.) Audiobook by Evelyn Underhill.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, Audiobook Audio Occult, Mystic, Alchemy, Magic. The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticized by Blake several places in the Marriage. Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral structures and his Manichean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order, hence, a marriage of heave...
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) INGLATERRA. El matrimonio de Cielo e Infierno (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell en inglés) es un libro del poeta e ilustrador inglés William Blake y que forma parte de una serie de libros que escribió como imitación de la profecía bíblica, pero en una interpretación propia, basada en sus creencias revolucionarias y religiosas propias. Como otros de sus libros, fue publicado e impreso en láminas con aguafuerte que contenían prosa, poesía e ilustraciones. Fue escrito entre los años 1790 y 1793, en un periodo de gran intensidad política y social debido al estallido de la Revolución francesa. El título es tomado como una referencia irónica al libro Del cielo y del infierno, del científico y filósofo sueco Emanuel Swedenborg, publicado en latín 33 años antes, y que es ...
The greatest Gnostic of the Enlightenment Period—and perhaps one of the greatest of all history—is the visionary poet William Blake. We acquaint ourselves with his life, his ethereal work, and his mystical legacy that honored the ancient heretics and defied the powers of Orthodoxy. We also partake in the gnosis of other Romantic poets like Shelley and Keats, and even beyond to Emerson and Herman Melville. Astral Guest-- Eric G. Wilson, author of ‘Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy', 'Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film' & 'The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and Imagination'
This recording is part of the Blake Voice project of the Blake Society. This and many more Blake recordings can be downloaded for free at http://www.blakesociety.org/voice/. If you would like find out more about being involved in this project and making a recording please contact voice@blakesociety.org. This video will shortly have a link to the mp3 file so that if you enjoyed it online you can download the reading. Below is some information on the reader and what it felt like to make this recording. Tim Bruce is an actor, singer and writer who has narrated over 40 audiobooks across all genres, including the Oxford Book of War Poetry and many works by William Blake. His two act play 'William Blake's Divine Humanity' (based on 'Jerusalem', 'Milton', 'The Book of Job', 'Songs of Innocen...
Tyger, tyger burning bright
In deep forests of the night
And little lamb you are the light
That is burning in one Child tonight
Who felt it so?
Who wrote it down?
Who lifts my soul?
Who wears the crown?
Sleep, William Blake
All is well
There's a marriage up in heaven tonight
There's a fire in hell
You were not mad
I know time will tell
William Blake
The wild wind's weeping, the night grows cold
The child is sleeping, the man grows old
The seed is dying, the child unfolds
And he walks upon the streets of gold
Who is the child?
Who is the man?
Who makes me smile?
Who loves the lamb?
Sighing lovers sleep and dream
Upon the wind the music floats
The piper pipes at gates of dawn