William Blake - Wikipedia
WEBWilliam 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.
William Blake | Biography, Poems, Art, Characteristics, & Facts
WEBAug 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.
About William Blake - Academy of American Poets
WEBThe poems protest against war, tyranny, and King George III’s treatment of the American colonies. He published his most popular collection, Songs of Innocence, in 1789 and followed it, in 1794, with Songs of Experience.
William Blake | The Poetry Foundation
WEBPoet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Though in his lifetime his work was largely neglected or dismissed, he is now considered one of the leading lights of English poetry, and his work has only grown in popularity.
William Blake - Poems, Quotes & Life - Biography
WEBApr 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.
William Blake 1757–1827 - Tate
WEBWilliam 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.
William Blake Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBWilliam Blake's life and work templated the modern artist - via his prints, paintings, and poems he constructed an intricate, mythical universe.
William Blake - Poetry, Imagery, Mysticism | Britannica
WEBAug 31, 2024 · Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toronto. Author of Blake Records, The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake, and others.
William Blake | The Poetry Foundation
WEBApr 20, 2020 · 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 101 | The Poetry Foundation
WEBDec 1, 2016 · 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, and Bob Dylan.