William blake what is the price of experience

Smile when they frown, frown when they smile; and when a man looks pale With labour and abstinence, say he looks healthy and happy; And when his children sicken, let them die; there are enough Born, even too many, and our earth will be overrun Without these arts. If you would make the poor live with temper, With pomp give every crust of bread you give; with gracious cunning Magnify small gifts; reduce the man to want a gift, and then give with pomp. Say he smiles if you hear him sigh.

If pale, say he is ruddy. Preach temperance: say he is overgorg'd and drowns his wit In strong drink, though you know that bread and water are all He can afford.

Flatter his wife, pity his children, till we can Reduce all to our will, as spaniels are taught with art. His eyes behold the Angelic spheres arising night and day; The stars consum'd like a lamp blown out, and in their stead, behold The expanding eyes of Man behold the depths of wondrous worlds! One Earth, one sea beneath; nor erring globes wander, but stars Of fire rise up nightly from the ocean; and one sun Each morning, like a new born man, issues with songs and joy Calling the Plowman to his labour and the Shepherd to his rest.

He walks upon the Eternal Mountains, raising his heavenly voice, Conversing with the animal forms of wisdom night and day, That, risen from the sea of fire, renew'd walk o'er the Earth; For Tharmas brought his flocks upon the hills, and in the vales Around the Eternal Man's bright tent, the little children play Among the woolly flocks. Ben 20 books view quotes.

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Nice blog, by the way. This sends a tingle up my spine every time I read it. It's a fantastic piece of writing. Among Blake's best. But can I respectfully point out that it is not from an epic poem called 'The Price of Experience'. In Edmund Burke said: 'I do not impute falsehood to the government , but I think there has been considerable economy of truth. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

But it is not these entrancing senses of Economy with which I choose to dally. I want to talk about the economics of the method of publishing in Illuminated Printing which Blake invented and in which he published all his poetry. BLAKE'S ECONOMY Wilham Blake was similar to most honest academics, or at least to most scholars in the humanities, in thinking that his chief role was in communicatinginformation and beauty and in beingwilIing to be underpaid or even occasionally unpaid in order to be given this privilege.