William Blake: The "Madman" Who Saw Another World

William Blake was an English poet and visionary artist whose unique work gives us a glimpse into an entirely different world. His art was ignored and neglected, and few people took his work seriously. He was generally seen as a madman. His vivid imagination, visions and mystical experiences lead him to a spiritual task that was the exploration of his inner self. For Blake, the essence of human existence is imagination. 👑 Become a Patron Access exclusive material and deeper studies https://www.patreon.com/eternalised ⭐ Or become a YouTube Member https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join — Support the work ☕ Buy a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 💸 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 👕 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com — For deeper study 📜 Full transcript: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/04/11/the-otherworldly-art-of-william-blake/ 📚 Personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 💡 eBooks: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop 🎨 Artwork archive: https://eternalisedofficial.com/patron-benefits Stay connected 📨 Newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe ✍️ Substack: https://substack.com/@eternalised — Elsewhere 🐦 X: https://x.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 🎧 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/eternalised 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books https://amzn.to/3wX4FIu ▶ William Blake vs. the World https://amzn.to/3MW5qs4 🎧 Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Mesmerize – Kevin MacLeod 2. Evening Fall Harp – Kevin MacLeod 3. Mourning Song – Kevin MacLeod 4. Wounded – Kevin MacLeod 5. Sinister Dark Ambient Dark Music – Dark Rage – CO.AG Music 6. Dark Ambient Background Music – The Lost – CO.AG Music 7. Haunting Atmospheric Background Music – Nobody is Home – CO.AG Music 8. Mysterious Ambient Background Music – The Rake – CO.AG Music 9. Gregorian Chant – Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist. Edited with an introduction by W. Graham Robertson - Commentaries on The Life and Works of William Blake (Brigid McCauley, Geir Uthaug, Brigid McCauley and