EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Intertextuality, 6 Years, Everyman
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Philanthropy: relates to patronage; writers actively seek a patron. Polemic: relates to intertextuality; a poem in response to another text. Epic convention: evoking the muse, using mythic imagery, etc. Pastoral conventions: relating to the pasture; emphasis on the ideal rather than the real. Autodidact: someone who has educated themselves; labouring class as well as. Spent his entire life as a city boy; poetry is very london based. Takes an urban view of the world, whereas the poems last week take a look at the rural life. Encountered a good deal of working-class style of poverty. A product of the romantic era; late 18th to 19th century. Blake fits in some ways and not in others. We would think of him as an early form of hippy in some regards. Spiritual, and somewhat prophetic; behaved like a prophet. At age 10, he claimed he had seen a tree full of angels.
