William Blake
English poet and artist
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Why Is William Blake Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
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What Are William Blake's Academic Contributions?
William Blake has made the following academic contributions:
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion
- Vala, or The Four Zoas
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- The Gates of Paradise
- The Book of Urizen
- The Book of Ahania
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Milton
- Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
- For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
- Europe, a Prophecy
- America, a Prophecy