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Apr 2, 2014 · William Blake was a 19th-century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages. Updated:...
William Blake - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake.
Sep 10, 2019 · William Blake: The greatest visionary in 200 years. A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how he...
Tracing the full scope of his visionary poetry, from the pastoral to the prophetic. By The Editors. Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer. Best known in his time as a painter and engraver, William Blake is now known as a major visionary poet whose expansive style influenced 20th-century writers and musicians as varied as T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg ...
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
William Blake was a poet and printmaker born in London in the mid-1700s during the Romantic era. Blake lived and worked at a time of great social and political changes, including the American Revolution in 1775 and the French Revolution in 1789, that profoundly influenced his writing.
William Blake, (born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1827, London), English poet, painter, engraver, and visionary. He was trained as an engraver by James Basire and afterward attended classes at the Royal Academy. Blake married in 1782, and in 1784 he opened a print shop in London.
