Defending the Imagination

15/07/2020 11 min

Listen "Defending the Imagination"

Episode Synopsis

As a person is, so they see. One day the English mystic, poet, and painter William Blake sat down to pen a lively document in defense of the imagination, the inventively eccentric, the artistic spirit. 
Mentioned in this episode: William Blake; Reverend John Trusler; unorthodoxy; Visions of Eternity; Moses; Solomon; Aesop; Homer; Plato; John Keats; Blake's "The Tyger"; Alfred Kazin; living on a dollar a day. 
(All music used courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist)
This episode is reprised from the ITA archives.