Closer is he than breathing,

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Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Closer is he than breathing, and nearer than
hands and feet
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• Born on August 5, 1809
• In Somersby, Lincolnshire
• Educated at home
• Attended Cambridge University
• Married Emily Sellwood
• Had two children
• Named Poet Laurete in 1850
• Died on October 6, 1892

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Interesting Facts about Tennyson
One of four Kids!!!
Named Baron in 1883
Wrote a 6,000 line epic poem
Poems were inspired by the death of his best
friend Arthur Hallum
His first child died at birth
Spoiled his two sons
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The Higher Pantheism
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The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the
hills and the plains-
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Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body
and limb, Are they not sign ad symbol of thy
division from Him? Dark is the world to thee
thyself art the reason why For is He not all
but that which has power to feel I am I?
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Glory about thee, without thee and thou
fulfillest thy doom Making him broken gleams, and
a stifled Splendour and gloom. Speak to Him thou
for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can
meet-- Closer is he than breathing, and nearer
than hands and feet.
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Gold is law, say the wise O soul, and let us
rejoice, For if he is thunder by law the thunder
is Yet his voice
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William Blake 1757-1827
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Blakes Bio

• Born in London

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Artists, Poet, Visionary, Engraver, and a Prophet
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Age of four, he thought he saw God at his window.
Parents thought he had a gift of vision
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Mystical visions was his inspiration.
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Lack of recognition at a young age, he filled it
with creative activity and the most important
poet of his time
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Blakes Works

• Other poetry A Poison Tree

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And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time
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Anguries of Innocence
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Holy Thursday
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Black Boy
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Infant Sorrow
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Blakes first book of poems, Poetical Sketches in
1783
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Age 32, published Songs of Innocence
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In the Prophetic Books, Blake expressed his
lifelong concern with the struggles of the soul
to free its natural energies
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright
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In the forests of the night
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What immortal hand or eye
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Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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In what distant deeps or skies
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Burnt the fire of thine eyes!
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On what wings dare he aspire?
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What the hand, dare seize the fire?
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And what shoulder and what art?
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Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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And when thy heart began to beat
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What dread hand? And what dread feet?
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What the hammer? What the chain?
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In what furnace was thy brain?
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What the anvil? What dread grasp?
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Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
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When the stars threw down their spears
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And waterd heaven with their tears
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Did he smile his work to see?
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Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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