March 31, 2017 | History

William Blake

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic 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".[1] His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5] (Source.)

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Poems
139 editions - first published in 1783 Read
Songs of innocence and of experience
51 editions - first published in 1794 DAISY
The marriage of Heaven and Hell
33 editions - first published in 1793 Read
Illustrations of the book of Job
31 editions - first published in 1825 Read
Poetry and prose of William Blake
25 editions - first published in 1927 Borrow
Songs of Innocence
25 editions - first published in 1789 Read
Jerusalem l'emanazione del gigante albione
21 editions - first published in 1804 Read
Correspondence
17 editions - first published in 1906 Read
Milton
15 editions - first published in 1815 Read
Auguries of innocence
12 editions - first published in 1914
America, a prophecy
12 editions - first published in 1793 Read
Songs of experience
12 editions - first published in 1794 Read
The book of Thel
11 editions - first published in 1789
Visions of the daughters of Albion
11 editions - first published in 1793 Read
The prophetic writings of William Blake
10 editions - first published in 1926
First book of Urizen
10 editions - first published in 1815 Borrow
The gates of paradise
10 editions - first published in 1888
Songs of Innocence and Experience
8 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow
The Poems Of William Blake: Comprising Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience, Together With Poetical Sketches
7 editions - first published in 1983
The note-book of William Blake
7 editions - first published in 1935
There is no natural religion
7 editions - first published in 1788
Tiriel
7 editions - first published in 1967
The portable Blake
7 editions - first published in 1946 Borrow
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
6 editions - first published in 2003
Poetry and prose
6 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow
Complete writings
6 editions - first published in 1957
America
6 editions - first published in 1947
The complete poetry and prose of William Blake
6 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow
Blake
5 editions - first published in 1946
The Poetical Works Of William Blake: Lyrical And Miscellaneous
5 editions - first published in 2006
[Prints]
5 editions - first published in 1791
Selected Poems
5 editions - first published in 1996
The lyrical poems of William Blake
5 editions - first published in 1905 Read
Blake (1757-1827)
5 editions - first published in 1946
The book of Ahania
5 editions - first published in 1795
The four zoas
5 editions - first published in 1963
All religions are one
4 editions - first published in 1926
Blake's Grave
4 editions - first published in 1963
William Blake's writings
4 editions - first published in 1978
William Blake (1757-1827)
4 editions - first published in 1947
Blake's poems and prophecies
4 editions - first published in 1927
The illuminated Blake
4 editions - first published in 1974
Pencil drawings
4 editions - first published in 1927
Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, 1789-1794
4 editions - first published in 1967
The Poems: With Specimens Of The Prose Writings Of William Blake
3 editions - first published in 2007
William Blake
3 editions - first published in 2001
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
3 editions - first published in 1981
For the sexes
3 editions - first published in 1810
The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical
3 editions - first published in 1893
Engravings
3 editions - first published in 1950
Europe, a prophecy
3 editions - first published in 1794
Selections from the symbolical poems of William Blake
3 editions - first published in 1915 Read
The song of Los
3 editions - first published in 1795
William Blake's engravings
3 editions - first published in 1950
Blake's illuminated books
3 editions - first published in 1991
A grain of sand
3 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow
Eight songs of William Blake
3 editions - first published in 1925
The complete writings of William Blake
3 editions - first published in 1966
The divine image
3 editions - first published in 1960
The complete graphic works of William Blake
3 editions - first published in 1978
Tyger, tyger
3 editions - first published in 1969
Songs of innocence; and Songs of experience
3 editions - first published in 1902 Borrow
Selected poetry
3 editions - first published in 1960 Borrow
The Prophetic Books Of William Blake: Jerusalem
2 editions - first published in 2006
Poems of Prophecy
2 editions - first published in 1954
Matrimonio del Cielo y El Infierno
2 editions - first published in 1997
A Descriptive Catalogue 1809 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834)
2 editions - first published in 2001
The Lyrical Poems Of William Blake
2 editions - first published in 2007
Selected Poetry and Prose
2 editions - first published in 1966
Essential Blake
2 editions - first published in 2006
Illustrations Of The Book Of Job
2 editions - first published in 1979
The Life Of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus V2: With Selections From His Poems And Other Writings
2 editions - first published in 2006
Blake's Poetry and Designs
2 editions - first published in 2007
The Life Of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus V1: With Selections From His Poems And Other Writings
2 editions - first published in 2006
Blake, The Selected Poetry of William
2 editions - first published in 1976
A descriptive catalogue
2 editions - first published in 1990
Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante
2 editions - first published in 1922
Visioni
2 editions - first published in 1965
Antología bilingüe
2 editions - first published in 1987
William Blake's illustrations to The Grave
2 editions - first published in 1969
For the sexes: the gates of Paradise
2 editions - first published in 1925
Reader, lover of books, lover of heaven
2 editions - first published in 1971
Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul
2 editions - first published in 1876
The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
2 editions - first published in 1997
Poetical Sketches
2 editions - first published in 2004
The Four Zoas
2 editions - first published in 2004
Selected Poetry
2 editions - first published in 1996 Borrow
The Grave
2 editions - first published in 1984
Songs of innocence and of experience, and other works..
2 editions - first published in 1972
A selection of poems and letters
2 editions - first published in 1958
The marriage of heaven and hell, and A song of liberty
2 editions - first published in 1911 Read
The wood engravings of William Blake
2 editions - first published in 1840
To the nightingale
2 editions - first published in 1981
The grave
2 editions - first published in 1969
The writings of William Blake
2 editions - first published in 1925
William Blake's water-colours illustrating the poems of Thomas Gray
2 editions - first published in 1972
The drawings and engravings of William Blake
2 editions - first published in 1922 Read
Twenty-seven drawings by William Blake
2 editions - first published in 1925
Selected poetry and prose
2 editions - first published in 1953
The chimney sweeper
2 editions - first published in 1960

Places

Great Britain, United States, England, California, London, New York, New York (State), Rome, San Marino

People

William Blake (1757-1827), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), John Milton (1608-1674), Virgil, Robert Blair (1699-1746), Thomas Butts (1759-1846), Thomas Gray (1716-1771), Alfred Kazin (1915-1998), Ambrose Philips (1674-1749), Edward III King of England (1312-1377), Geoffrey Keynes Sir (1887-), Homer, John Linnell (1792-1882), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Maxwell David Eugene Clayton-Stamm, William Cowper (1731-1800), William Muir, William Stirling Maxwell Sir (1818-1878), William, - Blake

Time

18th century, 19th century, Revolution, 1775-1783, Facsimiles

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Alternative names

Blake William
William BLAKE
William, Blake
Blake/William
House of William Blake.
1757-1827 Blake William
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757-1827.

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