HI All, here are links to the most promising first year (Oz Lit) Blogs. Enjoy some of this amazing creativity! https://morganjessie.wordpress.com/ https://annemariedimarco.wordpress.com/ https://benbotella.wordpress.com https://lauranema1.wordpress.com/ https://amarienguyen.wordpress.com https://asiyatrad.wordpress.com/ https://caitlyntuckerman.wordpress.com https://ninarwalker.wordpress.com
Category: Visionary Blake
The Doors of Perception: Heaven and Hell
The song “End of the Night” by The Doors was directly inspired by Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” especially the lines “Realms of bliss, realms of light, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to the endless night.” Listen to the Doors singing “End of the Night” here. William Blake takes…
William Blake in his letters and notebooks- Week 3
In his letters William Blake gives some startling revelations about how he sees the world, not through “single vision”, but through “fourfold vision”. He expresses this in a way that gives real insight into how he saw and experienced the world, a way that is far from what most of us are capable of knowing.…
Everyman- Review of National Theatre Live Production
As a group we went yesterday to see poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s new translation of Everyman with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and movement by Javier De Frutos. The original morality play called Everyman (written in the late 15th Century) was a play designed to remind people of their mortality. It was designed to…
William Blake – Week 2
William Blake was a radical in countless ways: political, religious, personal. He dared to confront and question received knowledge and forced his readers then and now to ask questions about the nature of God, the Universe and everything in it. Among many aspects of his creative life we explored closely today this contrasting vision of…
The Visionary Imagination Week 1 2015: Seeing through not with the eye.
A great start to the semester! So glad to see the level of interest and attention to these important ideas, to these amazing composite art works of William Blake. Here are the complete visual images of the Nurse’s Songs in The Book of Innocence and The Book of Experience (always click on the image for…
Welcome to Spring Semester, students in: Oz Lit, Twentieth Century & Visionary Blake
l am very much looking forward to working with you all in these three fabulous units. Oz Lit (otherwise known as Australian Literature) will take us on an amazing tour of the creativity produced in this, our, country over the past 200 years and more… Twentieth Century will engage us with the literature from around…
Bush Walking, Literature: An Introduction, Nineteenth, Shakespeare Plus, Visionary Blake, x Blogging
Grounding the Sacred: Don’t Miss This Event- Musicians, Artists, Novelists, Poets Engaging With the Sacred
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Wilde, Shaw, Jagger and the Challenge to a Dysfunctional Society
Oscar Wilde’s biographer Richard Ellman tells us that “From as early as 1881 … literary London was put out of countenance by this outrageous Irishman … who declared he was a socialist and hinted he was a homosexual, while patently mocking wise saws on all subjects. He declined, in a public and ceremonious manner, to live…
Shakespeare and the Quest for a Golden Age
Shakespeare’s contemporary Pietro da Cortona The Golden Age Arthur Golding’s translation of Ovid’sMetamorphosis (1565) has this wonderful description of the four ages of man on earth: the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age and the iron age. The golden age – as here described- is a wonderful period in which humans lived in harmony with…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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