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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) 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.
Aug 31, 2024 · William Blake was an English engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The First Book of Urizen (1794), Milton.
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- William Blake is considered to be one of the greatest visionaries of the early Romantic era. In addition to writing such poems as “The Lamb” and “T...
- Although William Blake’s principal occupation was engraver, he transitioned to watercolour illustrations after an ambitious 1794 engraving commissi...
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794) is arguably William Blake’s most well-known poetic c...
- Many of William Blake’s contemporaries either ignored his work or outright ridiculed him. Much of Blake’s art and poetry went unnoticed by the gene...
- William Blake’s poetry and art moved away from the periphery following Alexander Gilchrist’s publication of a two-part biography and compilation of...
Jan 10, 2017 · Explore the greatest poems by William Blake, a key figure of English Romanticism and a critic of injustice and corruption. Read about his famous works such as 'Jerusalem', 'London', 'The Tyger', and more.
Learn about the life and work of William Blake, one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic era. Explore his illuminated books, relief etchings, tempera paintings, and watercolors inspired by the Bible, poetry, and his own imagination.
Sep 10, 2019 · A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how he helped us “dream outside the sphere”.
Nowadays, he is widely considered one of UK's most influential and respected artists and poets. And in a new biography, William Blake vs the World, author John Higgs argues we are now far better...
Blake is at pains to show us that his mythology is not something far removed from us but is part of our day to day life. Blake describes the reader’s own fall from vision and the possibility of regaining those faculties necessary for vision. The climax of the Bard’s Song is the Bard’s sudden vision of the “Holy Lamb of God": “Glory!
