William Blake

Poet/Artist
William Blake
Born 1757
Birthday November 28
Profession Poet/Artist
Nationality British

Notable Achievement

Romantic poet and visionary artist

Biography

William Blake 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. 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". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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William Blake was born on November 28

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