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Milton and the Cottage
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
In our continuing series on how William Blake uses and abuses the Frontispiece, we look at one of the most radical examples, the frontispiece to Milton and its connection to the Cottage in Felpham.
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Blake’s Mental Traveller and The Gold Machine ~ with Iain Sinclair
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
An improvised talk about how a Blake poem became the secret code for Iain Sinclair’s late-life expedition to one of the sources of the Amazon.
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Death Day
£10.00Date: Sunday, 15 August 2021
Time: 12:00 14:00
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
38 City Rd, London EC1Y 2BGLondonUK (map)You are invited to gather at the graveside in Bunhill Fields at 12 Noon to celebrate the life and death of William Blake. All are welcome!
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Satanic Error and the Curse of Single Vision
£10.00Date: Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
Carol Leader, a Jungian analytic psychotherapist gives a talk on William Blake’s insights into therapy and everyday life
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William Blake Vs The World
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
John Higgs joins us to discuss his new book William Blake Vs The World to change the way we see the world.
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Blake and Dante
£10.00Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Luisa Calè asks : What artistic tools, visible languages, prophetic crafts did Blake employ to embody the souls of the damned, test the limits of opaqueness, and capture the translucent experience of paradise?
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The Frontispiece
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
How did Blake use and subvert the tradition of the Frontispiece in the illuminated books? This event is an open discussion and you are invited to bring your favourite frontispiece and share your insights.
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Blake’s Jerusalem in Translation
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
Two scholars, one from Poland and another from Brazil, talk about the challenge of translating Blake, who famously claimed ‘every word and every letter studied and put into its fit place’.
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Divine Images
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
Professor Jason Whittaker examines the complex development of Blake’s vision of divinity over his long career as a poet and artist, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations to Dante and the Book of Job.
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AGM
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
The Annual General Meeting will be followed by a special lecture by the Vice President of the Blake Society, Dr Keri Davies on Inoculation in the time of Blake.
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VIEW EVENTDescription The Annual General Meeting of the Blake Society followed by the artist Diane Eagles talking about the making of The Lamb at the Gate.
