The Vision of William Blake - ACE006.2

"To mercy, pity, peace and love…" sung over The Ancient of Days; credits over. Caption: "William Blake was born in 1757 and died in 1827. As a poet, painter and visionary, he lived unrecognised, in opposition to the social and spiritual life of his time. To express his dissatisfaction and torment at this, he invented a personal world and mythology, even a private religion, which this film sets out to explore." "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s…" and commentary over The Ancient of Days. Title page from Songs of Innocence (1789); Infant Joy; Piping Down the Valleys Wild… sung over The River of Life (c.1805), In Thunders Ends the Voice from America, a Prophecy (1793), Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (c.1786), and Mirth (illustration to John Milton’s L’Allegro, 1816-1820). "I give you the end of a golden spring…": Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion (Leaning Against the Pillars...)(c.1804). Jacob’s Ladder (1799-1800). David Delivered out of Many Waters (c.1805). "Holy, holy holy, is the Lord God Almighty." The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns before the Divine Throne (c. 1805). Saint Peter and Saint James with Dante and Beatrice and with Saint John Also (1824-1827), Canto 25 from Dante’s Paradiso/Divine Comedy. The Terror Answered from America A Prophecy (1793). Europe a Prophecy (Entharmon Slept) (1794). Beatrice on the Car, Matilda and Dante (1824-1827). He Who Binds to Himself a Joy…sung over. Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car from Purgatorio/Divine Comedy. Elohim Creating Adam (1795). Man Was Made for Joy and Woe… over The Angel of the Divine Presence Clothing Adam and Eve with Coats of Skins (1803). Eve Tempted by the Serpent. America, a Prophecy (Albion's Angel Stood Beside). Jehovah stood among the Druids..., from Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion . The Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil in The Fall of Man. Illustration from Milton a Poem: Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels (1808). Illustrations from The First Book of Urizen (1794). The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve (1826) "I was angry with my friend…" read over this and the illustration to A Poison Tree (Songs of Innocence, 1794).