William Blake: 1757-1827
Illustrations to John Milton's Paradise Regained: 1816-1820
I wrote the following in my post on Baudelaire:
Beauty takes on a mature happiness, a joyful engagement in the world around us, a desire to live in it, to improve on it, to share it, and to exalt in it. It is what God gave us, after all, albeit having sent us out of paradise. Our earth is not a "lost paradise" but a distorted paradise, where we can see bits of the real thing around us... [T]his drives us to find those "real" moments, and interject them into our world.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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