William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise (1787-93)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise

by prismatic • 5 years ago

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zabzonk2• 5 years ago

You won't find a greater fan of Blake than me, but I'm not clear for the reason of this being posted here.

dang4• 5 years ago

If it's intellectually interesting, it's on topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Especially if it's unpredictable: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: I buried the lede. Tell us more about Blake!

zabzonk2• 5 years ago

Surely that would mean that any combination of graphics and poetry would be on-topic here? Which would make the site be about culture generally, and so more than a bit diffuse?

dang4• 5 years ago

Not much by way of Blake threads over the years:

William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786182 - Jan 2021 (8 comments)

William Blake’s design innovations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066650 - Sept 2019 (2 comments)

Glorious Luminary: On William Blake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098991 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

The Greatness of William Blake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10568050 - Nov 2015 (5 comments)

pvg• 5 years ago

William Blake, William

Blake, William Blake, William Blake,

say it and feel new!

From Peter Porter's Japanese Jokes

https://asuddenline.tumblr.com/post/23106401624/japanese-jok...

open-source-ux• 5 years ago

The BBC radio programme The Forum has an episode discussing the life and works of William Blake with three experts. It's a stimulating discussion. This episode was broadcast in 2018 and can be downloaded to listen offline:

The life and works of William Blake:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswps4

I can recommend The Forum in general. It features informative discussion of every subject possible. There are over 600 episodes available to listen online (although not all episodes can be downloaded).

boygobbo• 5 years ago

Also In Our Time (another great BBC radio discussion programme) on Songs of Innocence and Experience: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gh4pg

readonthegoapp• 5 years ago

The little I know about Blake was picked up by reading

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Great book

He apparently wrote a lot about the environment

And was vegetarian

Those images are pretty cool too. Unique-ish style

William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise (1787-93)

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