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| William Blake, The Ghost of a Flea, c1819-20 |
William Blake is at
Tate Britain until 2 February 2020
From
The Proverbs of Hell
(William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793)
Drive your cart and
your plow over the bones of the dead.
The road of excess
leads to the palace of wisdom.
A fool sees not the
same tree that a wise man sees.
All wholsom food is
caught without a net or a trap.
No bird soars too
high, if he soars with his own wings.
The most sublime
act is to set another before you.
One thought, fills
immensity.
Always be ready to
speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
The head Sublime,
the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet
Proportion.
Exuberance is
Beauty.
Improvement makes
strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are
roads of Genius.
Enough! or Too
much!
Exhibition Reviews
Laura Cummings (
Observer) “
William Blake – a rousing call to arms”
Matthew Collings (
Evening Standard) "
Be drawn into a weird and wonderful fantasy universe".
Alastair Sooke (
The Telegraph) "
An incandescent imagination smothered by dull curating".
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| William Blake, The Sick Rose (plate 39 of The Songs of Experience), 1789-94 |
O Rose thou
art sick.
The
invisible worm,
That flies
in the night
In the
howling storm:
Has found
out thy bed
Of crimson
joy:
And his
dark secret love
Does thy
life destroy.
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| William Blake, Albion Rose, c.1793 (aka Glad Day) |
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| William Blake, Urizen struggling in the waters of materialism, 1794 |
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| William Blake, God creating Adam, 1795 |
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| William Blake, God judging Adam, 1795 |
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| William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar, 1795-c.1805 |
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| William Blake, Michael binding Satan, c.1805 |
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| William Blake, The Ancient of Days, c.1827 |
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