Listen now | Conor grills The Traveller in the Evening (Andy Wilson). What leads a person to try to combine Surrealism, William Blake and Christian Anarchism? Some background.
Fascinating discussion of Blake's Christianity and his place in Romantic philosophy. So many people want to borrow Blake as.a mystic, a gnostic, a Cabalist, etc. I appreciate that the author emphasizes Blake's Christianity, as I do. Blake's pathetic rendering of Milton and Satan tell us that empathy for everyone is primary to his system. Blake remembered Satan in his original glory, and his fall from eternity into Ulro is part of the plot of Blake's Milton. Milton follows Satan's original track through Beulah and Feltham's veil, where Blake glimpses the decent of Milton, to redeem Satan and his 6-fold emanation. Blake's argument here is that Milton's act of writing Paradise Lost is an attempt to redeem Satan. That's deep. When Blake began a new work of art, he would say, "a new Heaven is begun." For Blake, creating art is entering into Heaven. The eternal work that is done there is more important than the more mundane labors below.
Fascinating discussion of Blake's Christianity and his place in Romantic philosophy. So many people want to borrow Blake as.a mystic, a gnostic, a Cabalist, etc. I appreciate that the author emphasizes Blake's Christianity, as I do. Blake's pathetic rendering of Milton and Satan tell us that empathy for everyone is primary to his system. Blake remembered Satan in his original glory, and his fall from eternity into Ulro is part of the plot of Blake's Milton. Milton follows Satan's original track through Beulah and Feltham's veil, where Blake glimpses the decent of Milton, to redeem Satan and his 6-fold emanation. Blake's argument here is that Milton's act of writing Paradise Lost is an attempt to redeem Satan. That's deep. When Blake began a new work of art, he would say, "a new Heaven is begun." For Blake, creating art is entering into Heaven. The eternal work that is done there is more important than the more mundane labors below.