William Blake
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 196 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 28,1757 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Date of died | August 12,1827 |
| Died | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Artworks | The Ancient of Days |
| The Ghost of a Flea | |
| Periods | Symbolism |
| Romanticism | |
| Poems | The Tyger |
| The Lamb | |
| London | |
| The Chimney Sweeper | |
| A Poison Tree | |
| Movies/Shows | Tiger |
| Chartered Streets | |
| Works | The Ancient of Days |
| The Ghost of a Flea | |
| Newton | |
| Pity | |
| On view | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| Spouse | Catherine Blake |
| Born | Soho |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Books | The Tyger |
| William Blake: Poems | |
| The Lamb | |
| Songs of Innocence and of Experience | |
| A Poison Tree | |
| Parents | Catherine Wright Armitage Blake |
| James Blake | |
| Place of burial | Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, United Kingdom |
| Siblings | Catherine Elizabeth Blake |
| John Blake | |
| Richard Blake | |
| James Blake | |
| Influences | John Milton |
| Dante Alighieri | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Ben Jonson | |
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| ID | 408870 |
William Blake Life story
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
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... The hymn, which takes an 1803 poem by William Blake and sets it to music written by Sir Hubert Parry, beat How Great Thou Art to the top spot, with In Christ Alone coming third...
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... He pointed to the Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake, who made etchings and engravings of his work, as an example...
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