Eliot, Auden, Blake

 

T. S. Eliot spent his life re-inventing himself as a certain type of Englishman while managing a neurotic wife and writing some memorable verse.

 

 

W. H. Auden spent his life trying to rationalize his attraction to a religious tradition he could barely practice or believe while mourning an unfaithful lover and writing some memorable verse.

 

 

William Blake spent his life creating a mythology to live by and a psychology to live within while single-handedly attempting to usher in a New Age.

I don’t wish to minimize the achievements of Eliot and Auden but they pale in comparison to Blake’s.

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Back To Blake

 

William Blake has always been and still remains in a class by himself. It is difficult to imagine a stranger figure or, yet, a more compelling one.

He was, in his own way, a religious figure in a sect of one.

His "Christianity" was, by his own accounting, "true Christianity," although it was so far removed from what the churches would countenance as Christianity that it would seem to merit a different name.

Call it Blakeanity: a religion far superior to any form of cognizable Christianity on offer in his time or in ours.