{"id":3293,"date":"2022-02-08T17:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T01:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:46:22","slug":"two-songs-by-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/two-songs-by-william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Two Songs\" de William Blake \/ Chant\u00e9 par Patricia Dickson (Section des arts visuels)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Patricia Dickson (Visual Arts Section) performed the song &#8220;Tyger Tyger&#8221; at the <a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/section-conferences-2024-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 North American Conference<\/a> for the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities in San Francisco at the historic Swedenborgian Church Sanctuary.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Patricia first performed the song (along with the song &#8220;The Divine Image&#8221;) at a Section Salon in December 2019, just before COVID changed our meetings. At that time we were studying Wm. Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft. \u00a0Here are the two songs as Patricia sang them in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Two Songs&quot; \/ William Blake\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/669224210?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>William Blake \/ Friend of Mary Wollstonecraft<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wm-blake-mary-wollstonecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We have discussed Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Godwin Shelley, several times at our\u00a0meetings.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what poet \/ scholar\u00a0<strong>Kathleen Raine<\/strong>\u00a0says about\u00a0<strong>William Blake<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Mary Wollstonecraft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>At the time [that Blake wrote &#8220;Songs of Innocence and of Experience&#8221;] he must have known Mary Wollstonecraft well. &#8220;Visions of the Daughters of Albion,&#8221; whose theme is the situation of women under restrictive marriage-laws, may also have been inspired by Mary, who as well as publishing her &#8220;Vindication of the Rights of Women&#8221; adopted Rousseau\u2019s views on free love and courageously and disastrously put those ideas into practice. She was abandoned by her lover, the American explorer Imlay, the father of her first daughter, Fanny. Mary afterwards married Godwin, who was also an acquaintance of Blake\u2019s, and Shelley\u2019s second wife, (Mary also) was the child of this marriage. Shelley was thus in a sense a spiritual heir to Blake\u2019s views on love and marriage also.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blake\u2019s &#8220;Songs of Innocence&#8221; may well have been directly or indirectly suggested to him by Mary Wollstonecraft; they were his contribution to the current conflict of ideas in the field of education at the end of the eighteenth century, and to the new thought of which Rousseau was the moving spirit.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8212; Kathleen Raine, from the book &#8220;That Wondrous Pattern&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>Frankenstein<\/em>: The Modern Prometheus \/ The Education of the Free and Ethical Human Being<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0education of the free and ethical human being is a salient theme in the\u00a0famous novel of trans-humanism\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em>\u00a0written by\u00a0Mary Wollstonecraft\u2019s\u00a0daughter Mary Shelley. <a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/the-modern-prometheus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>We have discussed this novel and its themes of education, trans-humanism, and individual spritual freedom several times in past meetings<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.8.22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Patricia Dickson (Visual Arts Section) performed the song &#8220;Tyger Tyger&#8221; at the 2024 North American Conference for the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities in San Francisco at the historic Swedenborgian Church Sanctuary.\u00a0 Patricia first performed the song (along with the song &#8220;The Divine Image&#8221;) at a Section Salon in December 2019, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7531,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/7531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}