Vocabulary. unconventional - нешаблонный, чуждый условности engraver - гравер

unconventional - нешаблонный, чуждый условности engraver - гравер

visionary - мечтательный, призрачный

elaborate - сложный, подробный

virtually - фактически

mold - ленить, формировать

entirely - полностью

prophecy - пророчество

Answer Ihc Questions

1. Are Blake's poems easy to understand? Why?

2. What causes unhappiness according to Blake?

3. Why did he think we cannot understand reality?

4. Where did Blake spend most of his life?

5. What did he receive much praise for?

6. What process was Blake most intrestcd in?

7. What arc his most famous poems?

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6.4. Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (1759—1797), aBritish author, was best known for her book «А Vindication of the Rights of Woman» (1792). This book was one of the first to claim that women should have equality with men. Wollstonecraft said that men considered women morally and mentally inferior to themselves. She argued that women could live happy, creative lives if they had better educational op- portunities. She based her book on the democratic principles of the Frcnch Revolution (1789—1799) and on her own experiences.

Wollstonecraft was born in London. She educated herself by studying books at home. For a brief period, she and her sisters ran a school. From this experience, she wrote «Thoughts on the Educa­tion of Daughters» (1787). In tliis pamphlet, she criticized the cruel treatment of young girls that was common at the time. She also wrote other essays as well as stories and translations.

In 1797, Wollstonecraft married William Godwin, a British po­litical reformer. Their daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote the famous horror novel «Frankenstein» (1818).