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Great
things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
William
Blake
Gnomic Verses
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Vinson
Massif is the highest mountain of Antarctica. It
is a massive mountain, stretching thirteen miles long
and eight miles wide. Its location, the Sentinel Range
of the Ellsworth Mountains, is home to most of Antarctica's
highest peaks.
Alpine
Ascents International Climb Date:
Poem
read on January 19, 2002 by Neil McCarthy (below)
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William
Blake was born on November 28th, 1757 as the third
of five children to a London hosier. He enrolled at
the Royal Academy in 1779, but rebelled against the
doctrines of its dominating president, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
From 1779, Blake served as an engraver for a London
bookseller while contracting his services to others.
It is during this time, at the age of twenty-five (1782),
that Blake married his lifelong companion and wife,
Catherine Boucher. He taught her to read, write, and
help him with his work. During this time, he produced
An Island in the Moon (1784-5), All Religions
Are One and There is No Natural Religion (1788),
The Book of Thel (1789), and Songs of Innocence
(1789). The year 1789 marked the beginning of tremendous
creativity for Blake as he published his major works
in the relatively short period to follow-- The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell (1790-93), The French Revolution
(1791), America: A Prophecy (1793), Visions
of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The Book of
Urizen (1794), the Songs of Experience (1793-4),
Europe: A Prophecy (1794) The Book of Los
(1795) and The Four Zoas (1795-1804). After 1818
and until his death on August 12, 1827, Blake produced
no more poetry but continued his engravings including
the twenty-one plates of the Book of Job and
illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy.
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