William Blake

William Blake
Blake in a portrait bi Thomas Phillips (1807)
Born	28 November 1757(1757-11-28) Soho, Lunnon, Great Breetain
Dee'd	12 August 1827(1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, Lunnon, Great Breetain
Thrift	Poet, painter, prentmakker
Genre	Veesionary, poetry
Leeterar muivement	Romanticism
Notable warks	Sangs o Innocence an o Experience, The Marriage o Hiven an Hell, The Fower Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton, An did those feet in auncient time
Spoose	Catherine Boucher (1782–1827, his daith)
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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) wis an Inglis poet, penter, an prentmakker. Lairgely unrecognised in his lifetime, Blake is nou conseedert a seminal feegur in the history o the poetry an veesual airts o the Romantic Age. Whit he cried his prophetic warks war said bi 20t-century creetic Northrop Frye tae form "whit is in proportion tae its meerits the least read bouk o poetry in the Inglis leid". His veesual airtistry led 21st-century creetic Jonathan Jones tae proclaim him "faur an awey the greatest airtist Breetain haes iver produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in Lunnon his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse an seembolically rich œuvre, that embraced the eemagination as "the bouk o God" or "human existence itself".

Awtho Blake wis conseedert mad bi contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in heich regaird bi later creetics for his expressiveness an creauteevity, an for the filosofical an mystical unnercurrents within his wark. His pentins an poetry hae been chairacterised as pairt o the Romantic muivement an as "Pre-Romantic". A committit Christian that wis hostile tae the Kirk o Ingland (indeed, tae awmaist aw forms o organised releegion), Blake wis influenced bi the ideals an ambeetions o the French an American Revolutions. Tho later he rejectit mony o thir poleetical beliefs, he mainteened an amiable relationship wi the poleetical activist Thomas Paine; he wis an aw influenced bi thinkers sic as Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite thir kent influences, the seengularity o Blake's wark maks him difficult tae clessifee. The 19t-century scholart William Rossetti chairacterised him as a "glorious luminar", an "a man nae forestawed bi predecessors, nor tae be clessed wi contemporaries, nor tae be replaced bi kent or readily surmisable successors".