Blake

Question 1

Misprision

Answer 1

Deliberate misreading

Question 2

Clinamen

Answer 2

Swerve. Changing the direction of a cultural tradition is the only way the poetic landscape can be built up.

Question 3

Bricolage

Answer 3

Inheritance of what has come previously whilst taking it apart

Question 4

Urizen

Answer 4

An anti-democratic tyranical figure representing kings/priests (narrow-minded, against the arts)

Question 5

Single vision

Answer 5

Unitary, monological, self-obsessed

Question 6

Two-fold vision

Answer 6

The level in which most of us live, one in which the perception of objective physical reality is overlaid with emotional and spiritual resonances

Question 7

Three-fold vision

Answer 7

The experience of dreams, of poetry and art that grasp after the supernatural and/or emotional truths

Question 8

Four-fold vision

Answer 8

Mental fight and self-annihilation. It is the level of discourse at which self and other fold into each other, where the work of art is permeated by multiple voices and where the artist both confronts and befriends the audience.

Question 9

Beulah

Answer 9

Hebrew for ‘married’, one of the biblical names given to Palestine when it is rejoined to God after the exile