| Front | William Blake |
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| Back | 1757_1827 poet and painter he fascinated with the nude Poetical Sketches contained such poems as 'to the Muses' my Silk and Fine Array' 1789 Songs of Innocence, the gentlest of all his volumes of lyrics' the Book of Thel' which illustrated his early mysticism and use of emblems Tiriel, written in 1788-9 is the first of this elaborately symbolic writings Marriage of Heaven and Hell, his principal prose work William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[3] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[4] While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham,[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[6] or "human existence itself".[7] |
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