"I give you the end of a golden string" - Blake, the Gita and God
I've notice a tendency to downplay the divine element in accounts of William Blake, and to reduce his understanding of the imagination to a human artefact, from its true status as a supernatural capacity that he knew. In this talk I consider 5 ways in which this can be resisted: - Blake's insistence that "there is no natural religion". - Blake's affirmation that “God becomes as we are that we may become as he is”. - His understanding that, “The desire of man is infinite”, and without it, we ...