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William Blake's body of work has influenced countless writers, poets and painters, and his legacy is often apparent in modern popular culture.〔''Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture'', Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker,(eds), Palgrave, 2007, Introduction: Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture; S. Clark & J. Whittaker〕 His artistic endeavours, which included songwriting in addition to writing, etching and painting, often espoused a sexual and imaginative freedom that has made him a uniquely influential figure, especially since the 1960s. After Shakespeare, Far more than any other canonical writer, his songs have been set and adapted by popular musicians including U2, Jah Wobble, Tangerine Dream, Bruce Dickinson and Ulver. Folk musicians, such as M. Ward, have adapted or incorporated portions of his work in their music, and figures such as Bob Dylan,〔William Blake, in ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', by Michael Gray.〕 Alasdair Gray and Allen Ginsberg have been influenced by him. The genre of the graphic novel traces its origins to Blake's etched songs and Prophetic Books, as does the genre of fantasy art.〔(Jay Shukla, ''William Blake - The Divine Image'' )〕 ==Literature== Blake's illustrated books were much imitated in the early twentieth century, and the emergence of radical ideas about alternative futures heightened the appeal of Blake's prophetic literature. Aldous Huxley took up the idea of ''The Doors of Perception'', in a 1954 book of the same name about mind expansion through ingestion of mescaline. C. S. Lewis took up the theme of Blake's ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' in the preface of his book ''The Great Divorce'', in which he describes Blake as a "great genius." William Butler Yeats edited a collection of Blake's poetry and considered himself the inheritor of his poetic mission. Blake's painting ''The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun'' (1806-1809) and the poem "Auguries of Innocence" both play a prominent role in Thomas Harris' novel ''Red Dragon'' (1981), in which the killer Francis Dolarhyde has an obsession with the painting. Dolarhyde imagines himself 'becoming' a being like the Red Dragon featured in the paintings. In ''Hannibal'', a copy of Blake's painting ''The Ancient of Days'' is owned by Mason Verger, a reference to Verger's Urizenic qualities.〔Gompf, M. "The Silence of the Lamb and the Tyger: Harris and Blake, Good and Evil", in ''Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture'', Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker,(eds), Palgrave, 2007〕 Blake and his wife Kate are the major characters in Ray Nelson's science fiction novel ''Blake's Progress'' (1975), which subsequently was extensively rewritten and republished as ''Timequest'' (1985). William Blake's mapping of London in ''Jerusalem'' inspired London psychogeography in the work of novelist Iain Sinclair, biographer Peter Ackroyd and poet Aidan Dun, and his epic ''Milton a Poem'' was adapted by J. G. Ballard's 1979 novel, ''The Unlimited Dream Company''.〔J. Whittaker and Shirley Dent, ''Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827'', Palgrave, 2002.〕 Salman Rushdie's novel ''The Satanic Verses'' (1988) contains a brief episode in which the characters discuss Blake's ''Marriage of Heaven and Hell.''〔M. Green, 'This Angel, who is now a Devil, is my particular Friend': Diabolic Friendships and Oppositional Interrogation in Blake and Rushdie, ''Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture'', Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker,(eds), Palgrave, 2007.〕 Blake is described by Philip Pullman as one of three major literary influences on ''His Dark Materials'', along with Heinrich von Kleist and John Milton. Pullman's stated intention was to invert Milton's story of a war between heaven and hell in the light of Blake's famous comment that Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it". Pullman stated that he "is of the Devil's party and ''does'' know it." Ed Bemand's novel ''Beheld'' (2006) refers to both "The Fly" and "The Tyger" and describes ideas of perception inspired by Blake's work. The Blakean city Beulah is featured in Angela Carter's ''The Passion of New Eve'' (1977) as an underground site for a female religious cult. Blake is a character in Tracy Chevalier's novel ''Burning Bright'' (2007), which centres on a family who live next door to him in Lambeth while he is writing ''Songs of Experience''.〔("In the forests of the night, Tracy Chevalier moves on from Vermeer to Blake in ''Burning Bright''", by Clare Clark, The Guardian, 10 March 2007 )〕 Alfred Bester's 1956 science-fiction novel The Stars My Destination was originally titled ''Tiger! Tiger!'' after Blake's poem "The Tyger" - which also appears on the first page of the book. In Orson Scott Card's series ''The Tales of Alvin Maker'', William Blake was depicted under the name "Taleswapper." 〔 "If one of your prophecies comes true, Bill Blake, then I'll believe it, but not until.", p. 93. "I was born in fifty-seven . . . .", p. 96. He opened his eyes and found his fingers resting among the Proverbs of Hell. . . . "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.", p. 92〕 David Almond's Carnegie Medal-winning children's novel ''Skellig'', a story about a 12-year-old boy named Michael and his meeting with a strange, angel-like creature, refers to Blake often. In the novel, the child Mina and her parents are proponents of Blake. Mina has a strong relationship to animals and "The Tyger" is quoted. Many of the names of characters from Blake's myths are used in Philip José Farmer's World of Tiers books, including Urizen, Los, Orc, and Anana. This mythology is referred to by the characters in the stories (mainly in ''The Gates of Creation'', ''Red Orc's Rage'', and ''More than Fire''). There is also a character based on Blake's painting "The Ghost of a Flea". Similarly, in Crawford Kilian's novel ''The Fall of the Republic'', when a gateway is found to a parallel world equivalent to 18th-century Earth, it is named Beulah, and other worlds at different points in the timestream are named for other Blake entities, such as Orc, Ahania, Los, Urthona, Thel, and Tharmas. In particular, a future world whose atmosphere has been devastated by unknown forces is called Ulro.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Blake in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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