Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics agree that William Blake was one of history's most deeply religious poets and painters-though they cannot agree on what his religion was. In 1761, when he was only four, Blake startled his parents with the announcement that he had seen the Godhead at his window. In 1827, when he was near death, he flabbergasted his friends with a 100-page philosophical poem called Jerusalem, which he not only illustrated but engraved and printed himself. His contemporaries called it "perfectly...
...poetess, will deliver the third of this year's reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund at 4:30 p.m. today in Harvard Hall, Room 4. Miss Raine is the author of two volumes of verse "Stone and Flower" and "Pythoness," and a study of William Blake...
...Members: the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large of the Congregational Christian Churches; the Rev. Ben. R. Lacey, president of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Southern Presbyterian...
...sculling, a sport which he took up at the end of his freshman year because he needed some sort of physical credit, Hart is now being trained for the Olympics by rowing coach Blake Dennison Hart's progress in the sport has been steady and rapid. In his first year he was second in the University wherries, as a sophomore he was a finalist in the novice singles, and last year he came in first in the New England championships, and second in the Middle States...
Tired as he is. and much as his wife wants him to quit and rest, plain Mr. Attlee has a big job looming ahead of him. Gone is the party's evangelical zeal of 1945, when Socialists sang Blake's great hymn, and meant it: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land...