Antiabecedarian's review
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by William Blake
PRETTY pictures. And wonderful pictures. And awful pictures. I mean that in the clearest origin of the words: awe full and wonder full, ok? For my personal study of how I am not able to draw, or perhaps might alter what I have done already, like a touchstone, since it's impossible to imitate; therefore infallible. The first hippie. I wouldn't read Blake unless I had to for a grade. I could look at the pictures all day, though, till the pastel and tortured teenage notebook aspects start to revive my nausea...................... But he's infallible.
Not to mention, no one has surpassed the phrase, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." for Life on Earth! It has become ordinary and overused, but give props to the man who made it up. Like I would like to give props to Flannery O'Connor for popularizing delightful biblical phrases for a certain set of educated, secular, modern americans. "Everything that Rises Must Converge." It makes me resent, again, tha...more
Not to mention, no one has surpassed the phrase, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." for Life on Earth! It has become ordinary and overused, but give props to the man who made it up. Like I would like to give props to Flannery O'Connor for popularizing delightful biblical phrases for a certain set of educated, secular, modern americans. "Everything that Rises Must Converge." It makes me resent, again, tha...more
