William Blake, England's finest visionary, was born today in 1757. The great poet was a passionate dissident & a political artist deeply at odds with his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of the time.The Poet of Albion > http://bbc.in/1vtc2m0The British Library
William Blake, England's finest visionary, was born today in 1757. The great poet was a passionate dissident & a political artist deeply at odds with his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of the time.
The Poet of Albion > http://bbc.in/1vtc2m0
The English painter, poet and printmaker William Blake was born#onthisday in 1757. In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, perhaps his most famous collection of poems, he explores the tensions between the human passions and the repressive nature of social and political conventions. #DiscoverLiteraturehttp://bit.ly/1rxSCwQ
Image: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A facsimile of a coloured and gilded copy of the first edition
William Blake
A brief insight into the English poet, painter and printmaker, William Blake(1757 - 1827).
MORNING, OR GLAD DAY
Figure: Engraving. Nude figure personifying Morning, just touching one foot to earth, arms outstretched, rising sun behind head. Creeping caterpillar slides past his planted foot, while night moth flies away into background.
Life of William Blake
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- Scholarly Commentary Life of William Blake, ‘Pictor Ignotus’ Rossetti archive. Collections
- Online transcript of the 1863 (first) edition of Gilchrist's Life of Blake