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Blade Runner’s Fallen Angels

Blade Runner’s Fallen Angels

The film Blade Runner is hugely successful, but what does it mean? As the makers hint, the key is to watch it through the eyes of William Blake and his mythology of liberation.

Blake and the Mad Crew: The Ranters and the Historians

Blake and the Mad Crew: The Ranters and the Historians

While A L Morton thought Blake may have read the work of the Ranter, Abiezer Coppe, modern historians say there is no evidence of Blake being familiar with Ranter texts. How much do Blake’s ideas overlap with The Ranters? I look at the Justification of the Mad Crew (1650) to compare.

Serge Arnoux’s Mirror of Blake

Serge Arnoux’s Mirror of Blake

An analysis of the recently discovered engravings by Serge Arnoux illustrating William Blake’s ‘Proverbs of Hell’, with a discussion of surrealism and Blake, and the impact of Moravianism on Blake’s idea of faith, sexuality, freedom and religion.

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