An Elements Of Romanticism In Blake By William Blake

Register to read the introduction… He lacks what the romantic poets are characterised with-the nostalgia, and a disgusted approach towards the world. In his approach towards nature and human bondage he is both a Romantic and a revolutionary. An element of Romanticism found in Blake, though in a lesser degree, is his absorbing sense of self.

Closely connected with Blake’s concentration of thought is his swiftness of expression. Many of his lyrics appear to have been written rapidly without alteration. Others show a few minor changes. But the changes themselves are swift and striking. He often changes a great thing into something much greater, or seldom returns to an earlier form without an obvious reason.

Many of Blake’s poems belong to his own pure and spontaneous in-born ideas, but he is not wholly independent. Blake can be seen to have been influenced by eminent writer. He paid Socrates the compliment of calling him ‘ a kind of brother’ and allowed Plato the honor of having anticipated his own ideas on poetry and the art; but of only two masters did he write with unqualified admiration and these were chemists. In the Marriage of Heaven and Hell he says that any man of mechanical talents might from the writings of Paracelsus or Jacob ‘produce’ ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg. The vocabulary adopted by Blake was amazingly comprehensive but the ideas expressed through them are profound. …show more content…
Open the casket a little way and you are dazzled by the wealth within. Look long and you will see that every jewel has its place, and the casket within and without is itself an image of something yet more beautiful and emits rays of light brighter than the sun at noon