Available online
Description
Professor Northrop Frye discusses the contrast between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience through a study of two lyrics.
Professor Northrop Frye discusses the contrast between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience through a study of two lyrics.
| Module code and title: | A202, The age of revolutions |
|---|---|
| Item code: | A202; 22 |
| Recording date: | 1971-08-25 |
| First transmission date: | 19-06-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:20 |
| + Show more... | |
| Producer: | Alasdair Clayre |
| Contributors: | Marius Goring; H Northrop-Frye |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Blake's songs of experience; Blake's songs of innocence |
| Footage description: | Professor Northrop Frye discusses the contrast between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience through a study of two lyrics, The Lamb and The Tiger. He relates these ideas to the development of Blake's later thought. The suppression of the child's innocent vision into a mainly sexual subconscious, under the tyranny of a spirit of law which is always threatened by rebellion and new energy is shown - with its political as well as psychological implications - through the figures of Ore and Urizen in Blake's later works. Professor Northrop Frye, one of the most distinguished of living Blake scholars, is Professor at the University of Toronto. Blake's poems are read by Marius Goring. |
| Master spool number: | TLN34FM177J |
| Production number: | TLN34FM177J |
| Available to public: | no |
