Benjamin Jowett vs. William Blake
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Benjamin Jowett
1817 – 1893
Benjamin Jowett was an English writer and classical scholar. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was master of Balliol College, Oxford.
"Learn just enough of the subject to enable your mind to get rid of it."
William Blake
Unknown dates
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
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