'Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion' by William Blake part 1 of 8
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2013
- This recording is part of the Blake Voice project of the Blake Society.
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Below is some information on the reader and what it felt like to make this recording.
Tim Bruce
is an actor, singer and writer who has narrated over 40 audiobooks across all genres,
including the Oxford Book of War Poetry and many works by William Blake. His two act
play 'William Blake's Divine Humanity' (based on 'Jerusalem', 'Milton', 'The Book of Job',
'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' and the life and works of William Blake) was the
centre-piece of the Blake 250 festival at the Charing Cross Theatre in 2007 and was
shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth award administered by the Royal National Theatre.
Since then the international company Theatre of Eternal Values has been touring around
the world with a spin-off production entitled 'Eternity in an Hour' (notably to the New York
International Theatre Festival, the National Theatre of Switzerland and the National
Theatre of Turkey). In this, Tim plays the lead role of Blake. TV includes: Bleak House,
Hollyoaks, Family Affairs, Byker Grove, 55 Degrees North, In Suspicious Circumstances.
www.timbruce.co.uk
Recollections while making this recording:
Jerusalem is a truly visionary work of extraordinary dimension, both in its depth of
understanding and in its cosmic expanse. In every respect I found it utterly stretching and
completely exhausting, as I struggled to expand my limited being to encompass the
enormity of Blake's themes - to convey both the subtle intensity, yet minute clarity of his
meaning, and the immense symbolic power of his characters, while maintaining their
simple elemental humanity. I agree with Blake from the bottom of my heart, when he
claims prophetically that Jerusalem is 'The Grandest Poem that this World Contains'. In
maybe 10 years time, when I have expanded some more, I would love to do it again! - Розваги
Excellent reading of my favorite poet William Blake
such magnificent reading; such tremendous flow of vibrations...so much appreciation for your learning to do this reading and give us this gift!
love,
Carolyn Vance
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold and Commerce settles on every tree.
Awesome, read with passion and understanding brother.... Together in Blake, in ourselves, wonderful savior, the wonderful human imagination, in Love
Such emphatic reading and dramatization. This is gold standard and amazing stamina too. Well done dear Reader! You breathed life into old verses!
Thank you for providing this sensitive and beautiful reading.
This wonderful post is quite a discovery. Thanks for making it available.
He is a great reader wow. I have no idea what's being said but its wonderful
Simply extraordinary, wonderful! Thank you!!!!!
Masterfully presented! Thank you
Great reading, adds to the poem. Thank you so much.
Amazing! Greetings from Argentina!
Its funny how this is at the base of so much media nowadays. Its almost as if this is part of the future of humanity.
That's a very powerful reading! Thanks a lot!
Very nicely done
The furnaces..are solar masses! Stars🤩
Thank you.
..was Blake crazed by realizing that he was helplessly in an endlessly twisting and contorting dimension of alternating heaven and hell scenarios that can only be defined and witnessed as an unpredictable,demented mess of mayhem and chaos?
I know late..but quite the contrary. Jerusalem is the poem of life. It's holy spiritual. Greatest poem ever written. Those twisting and conforming dimensions is the war inside of you! He's actually saying you are the source of all things.
interesting
this relates to my occult studies.
*standing ovation*
What a journey
Gratitude 🙏 ✨💖✨#TOGM
39:18 ... Yet why despair?
Oh, edited?
The' wheels"are solar systems
He's talking about the immortal dark universe..abstract ..
To understand Blake you have feel after it. Intellectually it will make no sense. If you relax, and just take the information in without analyzing the truth of the poem will gradually start to appear.
I'll give you a hint: when you finally start and I do mean start to understand, you will experience a strange sensation.. anxiety
My man on 10 ain't he😂😂
Suggesting ..dark universe
Such a magnificent poem - but I must admit I disagree with the feelings of most commentators who love the reading presented here. To me it is too artificially emotional, trying too hard to make a difficult text approachable - and in the process losing the MUSIC I hear in Blake’s text, and which just needs to be left alone to resonate and in my opinion is being destroyed by “over-acting”.
It’s a matter of taste of course, but I hear it very very differently - more exalted, more incantatory, more hymnic, more sung, less acted.
Ah, imagine it read by Dylan Thomas!
I def see how this is true for someone already familiar with Blake's work, maybe the act of dramatization (in this prayerful way) doesn't lend to the objective/rational tune of the poem. Stylization can be tedious to sift through, especially with places and numbers. I personally haven't heard this poem before, it's my first time hearing it. The dramatization helped me make out the different personalities and motives hidden between the intertwining voices of the specters and sub-specters, etc. It made it easier to understand the poem through audio, I'm not an audiobook person, I'd be dulled with the lack of drama lol. Cheers!
'...loveliness as a dry tree...'
Tim Bruce should redo all the other Blake readings on this channel, the female ones are uniformly terrible.