William Blake 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 Blake's first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches, was printed around 1783. Along with William Wordsworth.

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William Blake 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 Blake's first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches, was printed around Along with William Wordsworth and William Godwin, Blake had great hopes for the French and American revolutions and wore a Phrygian cap in solidarity with the French revolutionaries, but despaired with the rise of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in France.

Relief etching In 1788, aged 31, Blake experimented with relief etching. Relief was intended as a means for producing his illuminated books more quickly than via intaglio. Stereotype, a process invented in 1725, consisted of making a metal cast from a wood engraving, but Blake's innovation was, as described above, very different. The pages printed from these plates were hand-coloured in water colours and stitched together to form a volume

Religious views “Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.” “As the catterpiller [sic] chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.” Jesus, for Blake, symbolises the vital relationship and unity between divinity and humanity: "All had originally one language, and one religion. Blake designed his own mythology, which appears largely in his prophetic books. “Men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.”

Cultural influence Blake's work was neglected for a generation after his death and almost forgotten when Alexander Gilchrist began work on his biography in the 1860s. The publication of the Life of William Blake rapidly transformed Blake's reputation, in particular as he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites and associated figures, in particular Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Blake had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, songwriters Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, and English writer Aldous Huxley. After World War II, Blake's role in popular culture came to the fore in a variety of areas such as popular music, film, and the graphic novel, leading Edward Larrissy to assert that "Blake is the Romantic writer who has exerted the most powerful influence on the twentieth century."

On Blake Peter Ackroyd (1995). Blake. Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN W. B. Yeats (1903). Ideas of Good and Evil (London and Dublin: A. H. Bullen). {Two essays on Blake at 168–175, 176–225}. Harold Bloom (1963). Blake's Apocalypse. Doubleday. Northrop Frye (1947). Fearful Symmetry. Princeton University Press. ISBN Alexander Gilchrist, Life and Works of William Blake, (2d ed., London, 1880). Reissued by Cambridge University Press, ISBN Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Blake: A Critical Essay. John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 2d. ed., 1868.

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