Re: Aule the deity of conlanging

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Sep 7, 2004, at 3:41 PM, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Ray Brown scripsit:
>>
>>> Aule, Guardian spirit of Conlanging.
>>> 'guardian spirit' can be interpreted according to our different POVs.
>>
>
>> Indeed.  I would add as an additional avatar William Blake's figure
>> Los, also a smith and maker:
>>     I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Mans
>>     I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create
>>         --Jerusalem plate 10, lines 21-22
>> --
>> John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
>
>
> Could you give us some more information about William Blake, Los and
> these "Jerusalem plates"?  It sounds interesting.
>
I can do the William Blake bit.  Learnt about him in English.  Did an
essay, too.

William Blake was a Nonconformist(religiously) poet.  He's probably most
famous for 'Tyger"('Tyger, Tyger, Burning bright, in the forest of the
night).  He was something of a revolutionary, and wrote various poems
attacking poverty, including London('I wandered through the chartered
streets, near where the chartered Thames doth flow, and mark in every
face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe'), and Holy Thursday (an
attack on the self-serving philanthropists who established 'charity
schools').  He was also an excellent engraver, and illustrated each of
his poems with very colourful, printed illustrations(which might be the
'plates' John refers to).

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