2025年3月26日 · William Blake (born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1827, London) was an English engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The First Book of Urizen (1794 ...

2017年1月10日 · The greatest poems by William Blake selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the key figures of English Romanticism, and a handful of his poems are universally known thanks to their memorable phrases and opening lines.

Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Though in his lifetime his work was largely neglected or dismissed, he is now considered one of the leading lights of English poetry, and his work has only grown in popularity.

2014年4月2日 · William Blake was a 19th-century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages.

William Blake was an English poet and artist known for his unique views on society, religion, and politics. His poem ‘Jerusalem’ is one of his most famous works and has become a well-loved national song in England.

THE COMPLETE POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, ED. ERDMAN. What's New? to The William Blake Archive Newsletter.

Blake was a nonconformist who associated with some of the leading radical thinkers of his day, including Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft.

William Blake is generally considered one of the great artistic polymaths, not just one of the finest poets in the English language, but also one of Britain's most revolutionary visual artists: the critic Jonathan Jones describes him as "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".

2004年10月1日 · William Blake (1757–1827), one of the greatest poets in the English language, also ranks among the most original visual artists of the Romantic era. Born in London in 1757 into a working-class family with strong nonconformist religious beliefs, Blake first studied art as a boy, at the drawing academy of Henry Pars.

Born in 1757, in the midst of the ‘Age of Reason’, and as the Industrial Revolution was gathering steam, Blake worked all his life as a jobbing engraver, illustrating and engraving other artists’ illustrations for prints and books.