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William Blake

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William Blake

Blake in a portrait
by Thomas Phillips (1807)

Born

28 November 1757
Soho, London, Great Britain

Died

12 August 1827 (aged 69)
Charing Cross, London, Great Britain^[1]

Occupation

Poet, painter, printmaker

Genre

Visionary, poetry

Literary movement

Romanticism

Notable works

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton, And did those feet in ancient time

Spouse

Catherine Boucher (1782-1827, his death)

Signature

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 theRomantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".^[2] His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic 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]Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent inFelpham),^[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"^[6] or "human existence itself".^[7]

Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncraticviews, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic".^[8] Reverent of the Bible but hostile to theChurch of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions.^[9] Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg.^[10] Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary",^[11] and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".^[12]

London

I wandered through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.

But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.