WilliamBlake个人及作品风格介绍.ppt

William Blake Group 8 Content 1. Author Introduction Background 4.Stylistic Features PART ONE author Early life Later life and career Turning point His last life His life His life Early life: He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake. Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St Jamess Church, Piccadilly, London. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and remained a source of inspiration throughout his life. His life Later life and career: Blakes marriage to Catherine was close and devoted until his death. Blake taught Catherine to write, and she helped him colour his printed poems. Gilchrist refers to stormy times in the early years of the William and Catherines first daughter and last child might be Thel described in The Book of Thel who was conceived as dead. His life Turning point:1803 Changing of his mind and art An altercation with a private who in the Royal dragoons His life His last life: Blakes last years were spent at Fountain Court off the Strand (the property was demolished in the 1880s, when the Savoy Hotel was built). On the day of his death (12 August 1827), Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series. PART TWO Introduction THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER The Chimney Sweeper is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of experience in 1794. The poem The Chimney Sweeper is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coff