Blake and the Bible

Creation and exile, the divine and the human, angels and devils, the revolutions of human history, gender division and sexual identity, prophecy and apocalypse: these timeless themes occur in the sacred texts (mainly from the Hebrew canon of the Bible) and in the illuminated poetry of William Blake on which this seminar will focus. Emphasis will be given to form and genre proverbs, songs, lamentations, dream visions, prophecies, histories, fables - as well as to forging connections between texts and concepts.