Happy birthday William Blake! Have you seen our William Blake display at Tate Britain? http://ow.ly/F2E2H
William Blake, England's finest visionary, was born today in 1757. The great poet was a passionate dissident & a political artist deeply at odds with his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of the time.
The Poet of Albion > http://bbc.in/1vtc2m0
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Happy birthday William Blake! Have you seen our William Blake display at Tate Britain? http://ow.ly/F2E2H
William Blake, England's finest visionary, was born today in 1757. The great poet was a passionate dissident & a political artist deeply at odds with his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of the time.
The Poet of Albion > http://bbc.in/1vtc2m0
The English painter, poet and printmaker William Blake was born # onthisday in 1757. In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, perhaps his most famous collection of poems, he explores the tensions between the human passions and the repressive nature of social and political conventions. # DiscoverLiterature http://bit.ly/1rxSCwQ
Image: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A facsimile of a coloured and gilded copy of the first edition
William Blake, one the most original visual artists of the Romantic era, was born on this day in 1757. Learn more about the artist and view a slideshow of his works: http://met.org/11z0Nxd
Featured Artwork of the Day: William Blake (British, 1757–1827) | Songs of Experience: Title page | ca. 1825 http://met.org/14nl5Ld
William Blake
A brief insight into the English poet, painter and printmaker, William Blake (1757 - 1827).
Born #onthisday in 1757: poet and printmaker William Blake. This is his Judgement of Paris http://ow.ly/F1mvL
You can also purchase art prints of Blake’s work in the British Museum Shop http://ow.ly/reo9t
MORNING, OR GLAD DAY
Figure: Engraving. Nude figure personifying Morning, just touching one foot to earth, arms outstretched, rising sun behind head. Creeping caterpillar slides past his planted foot, while night moth flies away into background.
The Blake Society is £400,000 short of the amount needed to turn the Sussex cottage in which the poet penned Jerusalem into an artists’ space, visitors’ centre and memorial
Life of William Blake
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- Scholarly Commentary Life of William Blake, 'Pictor Ignotus' Rossetti archive. Collections
- Online transcript of the 1863 (first) edition of Gilchrist's Life of Blake
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