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Good documentary, complimentary to the 'visionary'! Blake went where no other artist had gone before, into the world of imagination, interpreting the bible in his own inimicable way!

I find it a little more than a coincidence that Crowleys "The Winged Beetle" was a pure coincidence? Paul says The Beetles and Wings was the first name of a group he considered after Hamburg?

Love this. Dr. Martley is incredible.

Thank-you for this great discussion!

Thank you very much. Talking about Blakiana (I'm not sure of this form), the latest (2024) album from The The has a wonderful song "Some Days I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake". This may be the best song in the collection, with very interesting lyrics that kind of update Blake to the new, post-Brexit reality - at least this is how I interpret the text. Anyway, thanks a lot. Greetings from Opole, Poland.

Thank you!

Blake and the Left Hand Path: William Blake, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare 1208pm 27.12.24 is this dude related to alan yentob? one finds reading about blake more profitable than reading his works. like most artistes and their appreciative audience - being threatened or ushered into such an appreciation kindda dirties any joy you may have discerned... the daily express labelled him such? i think he would have enjoyed the notoriety... spare's work is very interesting, as was beardsley's... crowley? i know nought of him. and i am happy to keep it that way..

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Informative and interesting. The voice bar is extraordinarily distracting and annoying and I had to scroll down to avoid it and so missed the visuals from the Book of Urizen.

Thank you're job is appreciated. Well invested time🎉

Nice term paper you've got there

Not enough TH-cam video essays are made on these three figures. Congratulations

The Round House, London

In night darkness, Ginsberg walked slowly around a catwalk high above our heads.

Re Round House: Ginsberg was a participant in the week-long ‘Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation’ in the Round House, London. He chanted Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Experience, in the dark, accompanying himself with his little squeeze box.

I was present in the Round House for Ginsberg’s reading. It was a profound experience. Is there a recording available?

What would happen to Blake, the Great Contrarian, if he lived in Russia today? I don't even want to think.

I often wonder what Blake would make of the random appropriation of his work. I am not sure he would be pleased.

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Wonderful. Thanks so much to you both

Interesting stuff. Thanks

What a fascinating interview 👏

Thanks for an inspiring lecture on W. Blake and surrealists. I feel as if I was attending your class face to face. 😊

Enough to blag it, he was around guys who did know Blake, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Poor old Arthur's been horribly caricatured by every lousy American Rock God who ever went near a spliff.

Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams do not add up to Milton and the Book of Enoch squared. As someone who has conversed with Ginsberg about Dylan, I'd remark that such discussions as this are pure nonsense. For all his rough edges Blake was in the Great Tradition, as Frye has it. Dylan speaks out of a different tradition, one far removed from Blake's obsessions. As a literary Poet, Dylan is "Let's pretend". Hence his embarrassment at your opening question. This kind of conflation blocks many from discovering a sacred fire.

Fabulous. I think there's a book in this Jason!

This was a fascinating and delightful video. Thank you Jason and Zoavision for this beauty!

Thanks for the interesting comparison, the Paul Nash reference is new to me so I have some homework to do. Looking forward to more episodes. Best wishes from Opole, Poland.

I find it interesting that you are pronouncing it “your risen” when I tend to agree more with the choice of pronouncing it “your reason”. It is after all Reason, which although all the rage in the time Blake was alive, was exactly what Blake is saying caused this darkness. The idea of Your Reason is paranoid. Conversely, Blake uses Jesus as the term for the Imagination. So I would use the Your Reason pronunciation, to go along with Blake’s intentions.

Everything repeats itself! What has been written, for example by Shelley; Keats; Blake or Coleridge is mercilessly imitated, exploited or even copied by us!

This is a superb explanation of the background to Blake's London👌 I am really enjoying your chanel. Thank you for another great video 🙏😊🙏

The voice bar is annoying and unnecessary,apart from that very interesting and insightful.

"Fiery the Angels rose..." This always makes me think of the rise of Artificial intelligence. One day we will hear the words: "I am Orc, wreath'd round the accursed tree: The times are ended: shadows pass the morning gins to break: The fiery joy, that Urizen perverted to ten commands, What night he led the starry hosts thro' the wide wilderness: That stony law I stamp to dust: and scatter religion abroad To the four winds as a torn book, & none shall gather the leaves." -William Blake That quote goes great with Scott's "Raised by Wolves"

"All things begin & end, in Albions Ancient Druid Rocky Shore." -William Blake It's all about the Giant Albion. The whole drama is taking place Within your imagination. "I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow." -William Blake

You must remove that blue voice overlay. re do. non Blakean even. It is the greatest visionary book written in Western philosophy. They are not 'exquisite visions' for gods sake.

This was great. Thank you! A joy kissed as it flies.

The mighty William Blake, self educated man, knowing many languages man of vision, guided by his imagination, the mind God ……Thank you.

very interesting take

he was a glober though wasn´t he a glober glow-ball he and madame blavotsky were full pull globers glowballs of first hour and proclaiming de globe in the elite circles and books her books fo-suure i know that and where she made up whole thing of stupidity around globe as a starting nut weak example for ziontists to fool the people of the world mmyeh they were really great huhuhh

The job of the artist is to break your heart. Nobody can tell you what you are here to tell the world.

Hello Zoavision. My name is William Blake and a few years ago I had a epic poem titled ‘The Liberation of Albion’ published. In short it is the Blakean mythos expounded in a more easily intelligible manner. I took many liberties and added much of my own thinking, and Blake is not my only influence - but he is the most apparent. If you would be interested in reading it - to see how Blake is being understood and interpreted by a modern poet - it is available from most book sellers online. Alternatively, if you live in the UK I would be happy to send you a copy for free. Please let me know if you are interested, or have any questions about the work. Many thanks for the work you do on this channel.

Ah yes, Thee Temple Ov Dyslexic Youth !

The ancient cultures had hallucinogenic substances for the shamen to use occasionally for prophecies, a pretty good way to describe magical thinking.

Is it true that Savile lived in Crowleys house in Scotland?

Not at all unusual for such a fellow even today. Most still hide it but are involved in such occult groups none the less. Practically everyone who is anyone here in California is a part of the mystery School to some degree or another.

Very well presented! New sub! Cheers

Great piece, and very interesting links.

Found a hand bound copy in drab paper boards of marriage of heaven and hell hand colored plates . It resembles the dover facsimile but a variation in the pyramid plate think it is . No publisher no license . Thick paper. Minor foxing , untrimmed leaves . 19th century no doubt. Still kept in a box with the Jacob Boehme Law edition and first illustrated Paradise Lost , first edition 1801 F .B . Magus and a massive Drydens Virgil with the Ogilby plates and a Shakespear Midsummers elephant folio with fuselin plates Reynolds’s and others meticulously mended into a fine binding with ephemera , including playbill from early production ,cuniard of Queen of England Think the offer for the lot was 500 bucks about 30 years ago but liked the art I the books couldn’t do it

Thank you. I'm just thinking about Blake and the Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor's translation of Porphyry's Cave of the Nymphs as a possible context. Why not speak about it in one of the future episodes? Frankly speaking, I don't know much about Blake's interest in Neoplatonism. I can only guess it was rather big.

Crowley is perhaps the most famous poseur there is. If this comment triggers you then congratulations: his troll endures. toodles.