William Blake Biography

William Blake biography

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NAME: William Blake
OCCUPATION: Artist, Poet
BIRTH DATE: November 28, 1757
DEATH DATE: August 12, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England

PLACE OF DEATH: London, England

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William Blake was an English engraver, artist, poet and visionary whose work held a mystical quality.

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While alive, William Blake was generally neglected or (unjustly) dismissed as mad. Since Gilchrist's Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus” (1863), Blake has been considered a major figure in English poetry and art. His writings have influenced scores of writers and artists who followed, and he has come to be regarded as a major poet, an original thinker and as a conundrum of endless fascination.