Art Whisper
Art Whisper
1757–1827 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Blake, a visionary English poet, painter, and printmaker, created a symbolically rich body of work that was largely unrecognised in his lifetime.
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) 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 lived in London his entire life, except for three…
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