«Quand Klopstock défia l’Angleterre"
Blake a écrit ce pendant son séjour à Lambeth (1797-1799).
Les latrines (toilettes sèches) pour les maisonss de Hercule, où Blake a vécu, étaient sous une ligne de peuplier, à travers la cour arrière des bâtiments.
Blake dans ses latrines, sous les peupliers.
Le poème décrit une sorte de malédiction, dans lequel Blake utilise ses entrailles. il se peut qu’il souffre déjà de la cirrhose provoquée par l'inhalation de cuivre volatilisé par la solution Aqua Fortis (acide) qu’il utilisait pour faire ses gravures et sa colique intestinale est transféré par magie à Klopstock.
Le résultat est que l'âme de Klopstock ne peut quitter son corps jusqu'à ce que il meurt.
à cette époque les pensée politique de Blake sont violentes., Il ne portait pas Klopstock dans son coeur. Blake ne machait pas ses mots !
Si vous regardez les notes textuelles de David Erdman sur P. 862 de de 1988 _Complete Works_ , qui est en ligne à http://www.english.uga.edu/wblake/eE.html vous verrez que Erdman pense que c'était l'opinion de Klopstock sur l’art imaginatif anglais qui a été le problème - "
" Quand Klopstock Angleterre défié " N 1 (crayon) Date: ca 1797-1799, pour Blake laisserait Lambeth en 1800, Klopstock avait déclaré aux anglais que leur langue était incapable de la grandeur épique des hexamètres, et avait parlé avec mépris de la grossièreté des écrivains anglais.
Mais aussi, le personnage Nobodaddy apparaît dans le poème.
Nobodaddy est le nom que Blake invente pour le Dieu, qui n’ pas de corps "No Body» et. est un père, ou « Daddy » «papa». Il est également inexistante – « Nobody » "personne" - et il est le père de rien de ce qui est, donc, politique, ainsi que théologique ou philosophique.
. Nobodaddy est une sorte de démiurge gnostique, mais aussi l'autorité séculière. Donc, Nobodaddy est impressionné par la malédiction de Blake sur Klopstock.
Blake était une personne aimable qui maudissait rarement les autres.
Une malédiction sur , lors d’une « engueulade avec un soldat ( Schofeld) avait failli lui couter la prison pour Propos séditieux en 1803,
Blake devait se sentir coupable de maudire Klopstock - un acte spontané pendant qu’il soulage ses entrailles.
Dans la fiction poétique, Nobodaddy dit qu'il admire le talent de Blake à maudire, mais lui demande de lever la malédiction.
La pitié est primordiale pour Blake, tout au long de sa vie.
Ensuite, les deux dernières lignes indiquent que Blake pourrait faire une malédiction vraiment efficace - ou vraiment magique, s'il écrivait .
les 3 fois 3 tours sont simplement associés à la sorcellerie dont Blake se moquait en général.
Maison de Blake reconstituée en 1918
Hercules Buildings- Lambeth-Oct 1913
Blake’s Lambeth
During this period of turmoil Blake moved from Poland Street in Soho to 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, in autumn 1790 (he stayed until 1800). He lived in some comfort: his house was one of the largest in its row, accommodating a studio and a printing press on the ground floor. Here he received guests such as John Gabriel Stedman, author of The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796), for which he produced some illustrations. He continued to receive engraving work from Joseph Johnson (including illustrations for Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories, 1791). Other projects included a huge number of watercolour designs for an abortive edition of Edward Young’s poem Night Thoughts. Lambeth was still partly rural, but had its share of social problems. There were alms-houses, workshops of the Philanthropic Society, and an Asylum for orphaned girls; overcrowded housing and grim factories were beginning to appear. The nearby Albion flour mill was an example of the ‘dark Satanic Mills’ Blake would later condemn in his poem ‘Jerusalem’. In Lambeth, helped by his wife Catherine, he produced some of his most daring illuminated works, including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Experience, America, Europe, and The Book of Urizen. The radicalism of such works was potentially dangerous to Blake. On 10 December 1792, a Lambeth group affiliated to Reeves’s Crown and Anchor Society decided to ask every local householder to sign a declaration of loyalty. Blake risked being prosecuted for sedition, with possible imprisonment and ruin. His illuminated works were produced in small numbers, and while some were apparently on sale in Joseph Johnson’s bookshop in St Paul’s churchyard, most were probably sold privately. The latest ‘Lambeth books’ are dated 1795. -
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/william-blake-radical-politics
Number 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, was a comfortable two-story house with a garden front and back. The Blakes lived there, at least from the summer of 1791, until they moved to Felpham on the South Coast in September 1800. The first three years in Lambeth redirected Blake’s thinking on the follow-up to ‘Songs of Innocence’, and from here he launched his attack on the broader conspiracies of place and power, which perpetuated oppression and conflict.
http://invectiveagainstswans.tumblr.com/post/24683335676/number-13-hercules-buildings-lambeth
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William Blake and his wife Catherine lived for 10 years, and where Blake produced some of the most important work of his life.
William Blake lived for ten of his most productive years in North Lambeth at 13 Hercules Buildings. The old house has been knocked down, but there is a plaque where it once stood on Hercules Road. William Blake lived in Hercules Road, SE1 from 1790 – 1800 and this mosaic project pays homage to his genius and some of his greatest work. Southbank Mosaics artists worked with 300 volunteers over a period of 7 years to research, design, plan, make and install 70 mosaics based on the words and paintings of William Blake into the railway tunnels of Waterloo Station, turning them from dark unwelcoming places into street galleries bright with opulent and durable works of art.
The names of all those who helped with this monumental work have been included in ceramic plaques currently being installed near the mosaics. The mosaics are installed on Centaur Street, Virgil Street, and Carlisle Lane (North).
Link to map of Railway Arches
http://www.southbankmosaics.com/projects/blakes-lambeth/
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