{"id":3990,"date":"2014-03-27T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:06:58","slug":"another-facet-of-william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/03\/27\/another-facet-of-william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Facet of William Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3987\" height=\"300\" width=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg 1423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Who was William Blake? Ask a CC202 student and they&#8217;ll tell you he was an English Romantic poet. They&#8217;re right but that&#8217;s not all. Blake was also a talented artist and many of his subjects will appear familiar to keen-eyed core students. We thought we&#8217;d take a moment to share a bit of this lesser known side of Blake.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment3992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m3fau4iaxR1qbo39mo1_1280.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3992\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m3fau4iaxR1qbo39mo1_1280-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3992\" height=\"209\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m3fau4iaxR1qbo39mo1_1280-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m3fau4iaxR1qbo39mo1_1280-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/tumblr_m3fau4iaxR1qbo39mo1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment3998\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/william_blake_dantes_inferno_whirlwind_of_lovers.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3998\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/william_blake_dantes_inferno_whirlwind_of_lovers-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"The Lovers Whirlwind illustrating Canto V of Dante's Inferno\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3998\" height=\"222\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/william_blake_dantes_inferno_whirlwind_of_lovers-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/william_blake_dantes_inferno_whirlwind_of_lovers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lovers Whirlwind illustrating Canto V of Dante&#8217;s Inferno<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment3999\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Newton-WilliamBlake-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Newton (1795)\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3999\" height=\"230\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Newton-WilliamBlake-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Newton-WilliamBlake-1024x787.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newton (1795)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment3995\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Blake_Dante_Hell_XII.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3995\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Blake_Dante_Hell_XII-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Depiction of the Minotaur from Dante's Inferno\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3995\" height=\"212\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Blake_Dante_Hell_XII-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Blake_Dante_Hell_XII-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/Blake_Dante_Hell_XII.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depiction of the Minotaur from Dante&#8217;s Inferno<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment3994\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_003.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3994\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_003-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun (1805)\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3994\" height=\"300\" width=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_003-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/03\/William_Blake_003-832x1024.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun (1805)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was William Blake? Ask a CC202 student and they&#8217;ll tell you he was an English Romantic poet. They&#8217;re right but that&#8217;s not all. Blake was also a talented artist and many of his subjects will appear familiar to keen-eyed core students. We thought we&#8217;d take a moment to share a bit of this lesser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,3856],"tags":[4936,3916,45042],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}