About William Blake Blake is one of the most powerful writers in the English language. "He valued, over everything, imagination and its power to liberate the human spirit from it’s earthy confines" (STEVENSON W. H.:1988, p12). His work shows humanity under different guises as it struggles to escape from the tyranny of god. Professors, philosophers and the ordinary people have sought high and low to discover the "key" to his paintings and his poetry. …showed first 75 words of 1603 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1603 total…the images partly explains why they are so vivid, but there is an emotional power in their vividness that surrealism rarely touches" (STEVENSON: 1988, p17) Bibliography STEVENSON W. H. (1988) William Blake - selected poetry Penguin Books Ltd. London IDEAS THAT CHANGEDT THE WORLD (1999); CD ROM CounterTop Corporations San Francisco WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA (1998) CD ROM Ivid Communications, California HARRISON, B (1994) Romantics William Marrow and Company, New York REEVES, James (1963) The Poets’ World Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. Melbourne