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About William Blake
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 the 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".
Everything about William Blake →- Occupation
- painter, poet, theologian, collector
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom
- Born
- November 28, 1757, 1757
- Died
- August 12, 1827, 1827