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Encyclopedia: William Blake

William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 12 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, his work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. He was voted 38th in a poll of the 100 Greatest Britons organized by the BBC in 2002 . According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic corpus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language." Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, at least one modern critic proclaiming Blake "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced."^[1] Once considered mad for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, and the philosophical vision that underlies his work. As he himself once indicated, "The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself."

While his visual art and written poetry are usually considered separately, Blake often employed them in concert to create a product that at once defied and superseded convention. Though he believed himself able to converse aloud with Old Testament prophets, and despite his work in illustrating the Book of Job, Blake's affection for the Bible was belied by his hostility for the established Church, his beliefs modified by a fascination with Mysticism and the unfolding of the Romantic Movement around him.^[2] Ultimately, the difficulty of placing William Blake in any one chronological stage of art history is perhaps the distinction that best defines him.

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	(Chinese)	威廉·布莱克
	(Japanese)	ウィリアム・ブレイク
	(German)	William Blake
	(Spanish)	William Blake
	(French)	William Blake
	(Italian)	William Blake

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1757 in art

See also: 1756 in art, other events of 1757, 1758 in art, list of years in art. Births November 28 - William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver...

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1827 in art

See also: 1826 in art, other events of 1827, 1828 in art, list of years in art. Deaths August 12 - William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver...

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Dead Man

kills a man; after the victim asks if he's William Blake, Blake replies, "Yes I am. Do you know my poetry?" and then shoots. The poetry or William Blake is quoted by an Indian named Nobody throughout the... Neil Young. The movie is set in entirely black and white. Johnny Depp's character is named William...

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List of poetry collections

Baudelaire (1857) Lyrical Ballads - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth Man'yoshu The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake 1790-1793 Mother Goose (generic for collections of nursery rhymes... Lad - A. E. Housman Songs of Experience - William Blake Songs of Innocence - William Blake Svipdagsm�...

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1779 in literature

See also: 1778 in literature, other events of 1779, 1780 in literature, list of years in literature. Events William Blake enrols at the Royal Academy New Books Woldemar by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Births January 18 - Peter Roget May 28 - Thomas Moore December 22 - Thomas Gaisford Deaths...

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1793 in literature

See also: 1792 in literature, other events of 1793, 1794 in literature, list of years in literature. Events New Books Songs of Experience - William Blake The Old Manor House and The Emigrants - Charlotte Turner Smith Births July 12 - John Clare Felicia Hemans Deaths February 6 - Carlo Goldoni...

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Albion (William Blake)

In the complex mythology of William Blake, Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah and Urthona. The division of the primordial man is found in many mythic and mystic systems throughout the world, including Adam Kadmon in cabalism and...

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John Linnell (1792)

John Linnell (June 16, 1792 - January 20, 1882) was an English landscape painter. Linnell was a naturalist and a rival to John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also helped his friends William Blake and Samuel Palmer. See also...

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Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads , 1798, was the flame that lit the English Romantic movement, its spark being that of the somewhat earlier William Blake. The book was a joint venture between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both set out to overturn the priggish, learned and highly sculpted forms of...

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Songs of Experience

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