Notebook of William Blake

Notebook of William Blake

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Notebook of William Blake''' (also known as the '''Rossetti Manuscript''' from its association with its former owner [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]) was used by [[William Blake]] as a [[commonplace book]] from {{circa|1787}} (or 1793) to 1818. ==Description== The Notebook [Butlin #201] consists of 58 leaves and contains autograph drafts by Blake of poems and prose with numerous sketches and designs, mostly in pencil. C…

William Blake Naropa lectures continues - 19 - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Allen Ginsberg’s Naropa lectures on William Blake’s The Book of Ahania continues and concludes here  AG: So, finally, Urizen the tyrant becomes “Cruel jealousy selfish fear/Self-destroying.”  Now, how did that come around? We already had the Book of Urizen.  There’s another retelling of the same story of the development of that kind[…]The post William Blake Naropa lectures continues – 19 appeared first on The Allen Ginsberg Project.