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William Blake
William Blake 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. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he live…
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culture · English poet and artist (1757–1827) · painter · poet · theologian · collector · printmaker · illustrator · philosopher · lithographer · graphic artist · printer · also William Blake, W. Blake, Uil'iam Bleik, Blake
Born 28 November 1757 · Died 12 August 1827 · Q41513
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2026· 10 entries
ABC: William Blake, el visionario que «inventó» a Frankenstein, David Bowie o el monstruo de 'Alien'
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“For washed in life's river,My bright mane foreverShall shine like the goldAs Iguard o'er the fold.”
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“twenty tragedies as long as Macbeth”
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“Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to me.”
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“Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies”
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Yahoo: William Blake Wrote These Powerful Words About Loss More Than 200 Years Ago—and They Still Hit Home
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MutualArt.com: William Blake: The Collaboration of Art and Literature in the Romantic Era
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apollo-magazine.com: William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy
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2025· 4 entries
Hartford Courant: Cleverly displayed William Blake exhibit at Yale Center for British Arts draws you in
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Wall Street Journal: ‘William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love’ Review: Eye of the Tyger
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The Guardian: No CCTV on William Blake’s pleasant pastures seen | Brief letters
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The Guardian: Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon
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2024· 6 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: These Tiny Doodles May Be William Blake’s Earliest Engravings, Overlooked for Nearly 250 Years
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Reuters: William Blake's teenage copper plate doodles discovered
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The Guardian: Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum
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MutualArt.com: William Blake’s Paintings of Innocence and Experience
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The Guardian: William Blake’s Universe review – polymath’s paintings are outclassed by the Germans
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The Guardian: William Blake was the emblem of Englishness – but his art was intrinsically European
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Blake, Barnes and a different patriotism | Letters
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Guardian view on William Blake’s cottage: don’t let it crumble | Editorial
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The Guardian: William Blake cottage at risk of being lost, says Historic England
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: William Blake's final work to be projected on St Paul's Cathedral
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Tate Britain's Blake exhibition gave particular focus to Catherine's role in Blake's work
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2016· 1 entry
Blake bibliographer John Windle the world's first William Blake antique bookstore and art gallery opened in San Francisco, US
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2000· 12 entries
“Ed altri sette amori nel mio letto | D'ebrietà il mio cupo capo incoronano, | E compatiscono e sono dimentichi | D'ogni tua trasgressione grande o piccola. (da Attorno a me il mio spettro notte e giorno, in Manoscritto Rossetti, 2000)”
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“C'è un sorriso d'amore, | E c'è un sorriso della seduzione, | Un sorriso c'è dei sorrisi | Dove si incontrano quei due sorrisi. (da Il sorriso, in Manoscritto Pickering, 2000)”
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“Tigre! Tigre! divampante fulgore | Nelle foreste della notte, | Quale fu l'immortale mano o l'occhio | Ch'ebbe la forza di formare | La tua agghiacciante simmetria? (da Tigre, in Canti d'esperienza, 2000)”
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“Non c'è più impero! ora cesseranno il leone e il lupo. (da Un canto di Libertà, 2000)”
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“L'Energia è l'Eterno Piacere. (da La voce del diavolo, 2000)”
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“L'Opposizione è la vera Amicizia. (da Memorabile apparizione, 2000)”
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“L'uomo che non cambia mai parere è come l'acqua stagnante, e alleva i rettili della mente. (un musico: da Memorabile apparizione, 2000)”
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“Reprimono il desiderio solo quelli che lo hanno tanto debole da poterlo reprimere. (da La voce del diavolo, 2000)”
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“Se si pulissero le porte della percezione, ogni cosa apparirebbe all'uomo come essa veramente è, infinita. (da Memorabile apparizione, 2000)”
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“Senza Contrari non c'è progresso. (da Argomento, 2000)”
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“Tutte le Bibbie, codici sacri, sono state causa dei seguenti Errori:1. Che nell'uomo ci sono due principi reali di esistenza, cioè un Corpo e un'Anima. (da La voce del diavolo, 2000)”
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“[William Blake, Il Matrimonio del Cielo e dell'Inferno, in Visioni, 2000]”
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1997· 1 entry
“Coltiva la pietà, non chiuder fuori l'angelo. (da Giovedì Santo, in Canti dell'innocenza e dell'esperienza, traduzione di Roberto Rossi Testa, SE, Milano 1997)”
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1993· 1 entry
Thompson's last finished work, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (1993), claims to show how far he was inspired by dissident religious ideas rooted in the thinking of the most radical opponents of the monarchy during the English Civil War.
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1992· 1 entry
“Nascono alcuni al soave diletto, | Nascono alcuni ad infinita notte. (da Presagi di innocenza; citato in Nadine Gordimer, Il salto, traduzione di Franca Cavagnoli, Feltrinelli, 1992, p. 50)”
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1988· 1 entry
A more recent study, William Blake: Visionary Anarchist by Peter Marshall (1988), classified Blake and his contemporary William Godwin as forerunners of modern anarchism.
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1957· 1 entry
A memorial to Blake and his wife was erected in Westminster Abbey
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1954· 1 entry
His poetry consistently embodies an attitude of rebellion against the abuse of class power as documented in David Erdman's study Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Times (1954).
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1906· 1 entry
“The letters of William Blake: together with a life - Página 139, William Blake, Frederick Tatham, Archibald George Blomefield Russell - C. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 237 páginas”
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1904· 1 entry
“Jerusalem" - Página 65, William Blake, Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan, Archibald George Blomefield Russell - A.H. Bullen, 1904 - 127 páginas”
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1893· 1 entry
Drew on him for poetic and philosophical ideas, while British surrealist art in particular drew on Blake's conceptions of non-mimetic, visionary practice in the painting of artists such as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland
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1880· 1 entry
“A Vision of the Last Judgment in: Life of William Blake (1880), Volume 2”
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1863· 1 entry
“William Blake; Life of William Blake, "Pictor ignotus." - Volume 1, Página 190, Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Macmillan and co., 1863”
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1827· 23 entries
Died 1827-08-12.
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“Tygrys, tygrys w puszczach nocyŚwieci blaskiem pełnym mocy.Czyj wzrok, czyja dłoń przelałaGrozę tę w symetrię ciała?”
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“Nie próbuj mówić o miłości,Bo ona w słowach się nie mieści.Jest jak wiatr: cichy, niewidzialny,Co tylko czasem zaszeleści.”
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“I will not cease from mental fight,Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,Till we have built JerusalemIn England’s green and pleasant land. (ang.)”
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“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend:The man who permits you to injure him, deserves your vengeance:He also will receive it. (ang.)”
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“Kochajcie boski ludzki kształtW Żydzie i w poganinieGdzie Miłość z Miłosierdziem trwaTam Bóg ma swe świątynie”
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“Jedyny z ludzi, com ich znał na mieścieNa widok którego rzygać mi się nie chce.”
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“Love seeketh not itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its ease,And builds a heaven in hell's despair.”
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“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.”
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“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
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“[T]he man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
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“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”
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“englischer Maler und Dichter”
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“Entrambi leggiamo la Bibbia giorno e notte, | ma tu leggi nero dove io leggo bianco.”
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“(ang. Auguries of Innocence, tłum. Zygmunt Kubiak)”
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“Generalizzare vuol dire essere idioti.”
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“Se deseja ver o mundo num grão de areia”
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“Conduce tu carreta y tu arado por encima de los huesos de los muertos.”
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“To Generalize is to be an Idiot.”
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“E o céu numa flor do campo”
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“Każdego ranka i każdej nocyKtoś rodzi się w słodkim zachwycie.Ktoś rodzi się w słodkim zachwycie,ktoś rodzi się w nieskończoną noc.”
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“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”
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Cut short the enterprise, and only a handful of watercolours were completed, with only seven of the engravings arriving at proof form
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1826· 1 entry
Through Linnell, with the aim of producing a series of engravings
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1818· 1 entry
Was introduced by George Cumberland's son to a young artist named John Linnell
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1804· 2 entries
Career landmark: trial.
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And began to write and illustrate Jerusalem (1804–20), his most ambitious work
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1801· 1 entry
“Um eine Welt in einem Sandkorn zu sehn // und einen Himmel in einer wilden Blume, // halte die Unendlichkeit in deiner flachen Hand // und die Ewigkeit in einer Stunde ." - Beginn von »Auguries of Innocence« (Weissagungen der Unschuld), Pickering (Ballad) Manuscript ca. 1801- 03, S. 13-18”
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1800· 1 entry
Blake moved to a a cottage at Felpham, in Sussex (now West Sussex), to take up a job illustrating the works of William Hayley, a minor poet
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1779· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Arts (1779).
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1767· 1 entry
Studied at Henry Pars Drawing School (1767).
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1757· 1 entry
Born 1757-11-28.
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