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4 days ago · William 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.
2 days ago · William Blake, an 18th-century Londoner, lived a long life full of artistic outpouring, though he was little recognized for his work at the time. As a poet, painter, and engraver, Blake spent many years within the confines of the city, though he is known to have rambled into the countryside as a young boy.
3 days ago · Songs of Innocence and Experience is a poetry collection by Blake. It contrasts childhood innocence (joy, wonder) with the harsher realities of adulthood (injustice, disillusionment). Imagine two sides of the same coin: one bright, one shadowed.
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6 days ago · William Blake — ‘I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.’
5 days ago · William Blake > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.” ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence. tags: poetry. Read more quotes from William Blake. Share this quote: Like Quote. Recommend to friends. Friends Who Liked This Quote.
4 days ago · In mild humility ; And the just man rages in the wilds. Where Uons roam. Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in. the burdened air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep. As a new heaven is begun, and it is. now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives.
4 days ago · At the same time, William Blake, who was obsessed with astronomical imagery, used the Moon for expressive purposes, which reached a fever pitch later in the century in the work of Vincent Van Gogh.
