21. William Blake Biography of the British poet and mystic and discussion of his works. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne William Blake (1757-1827) British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. He joined for a time the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in London and considered Newtonian science to be superstitious nonsense. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance. To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. (from 'Auguries of Innocence') William Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier and attracted by the doctrines of Emmanuel Swedenborg. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. His parents encouraged him to collect prints of the Italian masters, and in 1767 sent him to Henry Pars' drawing school. From his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks, he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly. In 1774 Blake opened with his wife and younger brother Robert a print shop at 27 Broad Street, but the venture failed after the death of Robert in 1787. Blake's important cultural and social contacts included Henry Fuseli, Reverend A.S. Mathew and his wife, John Flaxman (1755-1826), a sculptor and draftsman, Tom Paine, William Godwin, and Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), married to the wealthy grandson of the earl of Sandwich.

22. William Blake - Blake, William william blake was born 28 November 1757, third and strangest son of James blake and his wife Catherine1. His life started off weird and never improved. http://incompetech.com/authors/blake/

the website with the self-referential tagline... William "New Age" Blake William Blake was born 28 November 1757, third and strangest son of James Blake and his wife Catherine . His life started off weird and never improved. At the tender age of four, he had his first vision . Though his parents may have thought it was all right at first, his father was very upset William was still having them at eight. James decided, probably quite rightly, not to put William in school. He learned to read and write at home, and also showed a great aptitude for drawing. He was sent to a drawing school at age ten, and his father arranged for William to be apprenticed to an engraver as soon as he was old enough William bought every print he could possibly afford. He drew sketches of monuments throughout the London area. Oh, yes, and he also wrote some poetry. His first collection (published 1783) was the Poetical Sketches , lyric poems written between the ages of twelve and twenty. Though mostly derivative of other poets' work, these early poems show the beginnings of the Romantic ideas of emotion over form , and they're still read today, which is more than you'd expect of such early stuff. In William's case, it's the later poems that don't get read anymore. But I'm getting ahead of myself. William's work was unusual for the time: he never attempted a sonnet, as near as we can tell, and he really wasn't very good at couplets, which all of his contemporaries considered the only good forms of poetry.

23. William Blake Online william blake British Romantic Writer and Painter and Illustrator, 17571827 Guide to pictures of works by william blake in art museum sites and image http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/blake_william.html

William Blake art links last verified November 16, 2007 Link to this page Report errors + broken links here More options William Blake [British Romantic Writer and Painter and Illustrator, 1757-1827] British artists writers William Blake's Red Dragon paintings: Click here if you're looking for information about the painting that obsessed serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the movie Red Dragon Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service) Original works by William Blake available for purchase at art galleries worldwide Museums and Public Art Galleries: , UK 6 works online Dallas Museum of Art , Texas NEW! Satan before the Throne of God, from the Book of Job Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Many works by William Blake Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge , UK Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website , Cambridge, UK J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles Satan Exulting over Eve William Blake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City 16 works from a 2001 exhibition of the artist's work Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History , New York City 5 works online Minneapolis Institute of Arts , Minnesota Nebuchadnezzar Museum of Fine Arts , Boston Prints/drawing collection online Museum of Fine Arts , Boston Watercolor collection online National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh William Blake at the National Gallery of Art , Washington D.C.

24. Some William Blake On The Web s of and pointers to the best of william blake on the web. blake, 17571827, was an English poet, artist, engraver, and publisher....... http://penn.betatesters.com/blake.htm

The luring songs of Luvah William Blake on the web (Go here for this page without the evocative but distracting background. William Blake , 1757-1827, was an English poet, artist, engraver, and publisher. His writings and art are extraordinary. They have been a source of inspiration to me over 30 years. Here are some William Blake pages on the web. Exhibit at the Tate! Britain's Tate Gallery presents a comprehensive exhibition of Blake as an artist, as a poet, and as a man. (This was at the Tate 9 November 2000 - 11 February 2001, then to the Metropolitan March 29 - June 24, 2001. The Online Exhibits are still up!) Giles Murray has produced an 88 page educational Online Interactive Exhibit to accompany the exhibition, featuring recordings of the Songs, an interactive guide to Blake's London, a dictionary of Blake's characters, and an Amazing Facts about Blake game for a teenage audience, and their arrangement and display here seems ideally suited to present these themes vividly and intelligently. Blake Digital Text Project Songs of Innocence and Experience in graphical hypertext. An astounding and useful site!

25. Poetry Archives @ EMule.com Home » Classic Poets » william blake. EMail Printable View. Author Picture. william blake. (1757-1827). A Divine Image Cruelty has a human heart http://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=overview&author=8

26. William Blake Quotes - The Quotations Page william blake; Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. william blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , 1790 http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_Blake/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author William Blake (1757 - 1827) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 16 of 16 total A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. William Blake Energy is eternal delight. William Blake - More quotations on: [ Energy He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. William Blake I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. William Blake - More quotations on: [ God Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. William Blake - More quotations on: [ Ignorance It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake - More quotations on: [ Enemies Forgiveness Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, ... And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

27. The William Blake Page A website devoted to blake s paintings and poetry, including a selection of complete texts and fullcolor reproductions of the etchings blake used to http://www.gailgastfield.com/Blake.html

The William Blake Page William Blake (b. Nov. 28, 1757, Londond. Aug. 12, 1827, London) was the first of the great English Romantic poets, as well as a painter and printer and one of the greatest engravers in English history. Largely self-taught, he began writing poetry when he was twelve and was apprenticed to a London engraver at the age of fourteen. His poetry and visual art are inextricably linked. To fully appreciate one you must see it in context with the other. A rebel all of his life, Blake was once arrested on a trumped up charge of sedition. Of course, he was a complete sympathizer with the forces of revolution, both in America and France. He was a personal friend of Thomas Paine and made the American War of Independence and French Revolution parts of his grand mythology in his America: A Prophecy and Europe: A Prophecy. Blake is frequently referred to as a mystic, but this is not really accurate. He deliberately wrote in the style of the Hebrew prophets and apocalyptic writers. He envisioned his works as expressions of prophecy, following in the footsteps (or, more precisely strapping on the sandals) of Elijah and Milton. In fact, he clearly believed himself to be the living embodiment of the spirit of Milton. Most of Blake's paintings (such as "The Ancient of Days" above, the frontispiece to

28. CGFA- William Blake blake Page 1. To Biography Graphic Glad Day. 56KB. Graphic Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion, engraving. 64KB http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/blake/

Glad Day. 56KB Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion, engraving. 64KB Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell (Illustration to Dante's Inferno). 180KB Whirlwind of Lovers (Illustration to Dante's Inferno), Birmingham Art Gallery. 131KB God as an Architect, illustration from The Ancient of Days, 1794. 96KB Job and his Daughters, 1799-1800, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. 65KB The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1805-1810, watercolor, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. 117KB The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, 1822, watercolor, Tate Gallery, London. 145KB Satan Smiting Job with Boils, 1826, watercolor, Tate Gallery, London. 112KB Online Since 1996 Alphabetical Index Nationality/Time Index ... Featured Artists

29. Blake Digital TextProject The Complete Poetry and Prose of william blake; Songs of Innocence and Experience. http://www.english.uga.edu/wblake/

30. William Blake Page william blake was a transitional figure in British literature. He was the one of the first writers of the Romantic Period. http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/britlit/97-98/blake/POEMS.HTM

William Blake About Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience Songs of Innocence "Holy Thursday" "The Chimney Sweeper" "The Lamb" "The Divine Image" Songs of Experience "Holy Thursday" "The Chimney Sweeper" "The Tyger "The Human Abstract" Analysis of Companion Poems "Holy Thursday" "The Chimney Sweeper" "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" "The Divine Image" and "The Human Abstract" ... Return to Main Menu William Blake William Blake was a transitional figure in British literature. He was the one of the first writers of the "Romantic Period." Before this period, most writers, such as Alexander Pope, wrote more for form instead of for content. Blake, on the other hand, turned back to Elizabethan and early seventeenth-century poets, and other eighteenth- century poets outside the tradition of Pope. Blake was not always a poet. In fact, his only formal training was in art. At the age of ten, he entered a drawing school. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. Blake became an apprentice under James Basire, a well-known engraver, at the age of fourteen and remained his apprentice for seven years. Blake found that he had quite a bit of free time. During this time, he read and soon began to try writing poetry. In 1788, at the age of thirty-one, Blake began to experiment with relief etching, which was the method used to produce most of his books of poems. He called this method "illuminated printing." He wrote the text of his poems on copper plates with pens and brushes, using an acid-resistant medium. The illustrations were also drawn onto the plates. He then etched the plates in acid in order to eat away the untreated copper and leave the design standing. The pages printed from these plates then had to be colored by hand in water colors and stiched together to make up a volume. Blake used illuminated printing for four of his works. These included "Songs of Innocence and Experience," "The Book of Thel," "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," and "Jerusalem."

31. The Blake List: Devoted To The Poet William Blake - Albion.com This is the home page for the blake List, devoted to the life and work of visionary poet william blake. http://www.albion.com/blake/

BLAKE LIST ARCHIVE: Vol. 1995 Vol. 1996 Vol. 1997 Vol. 1998 ... Vol. 1999 ALBION PAGES: Albion Home Happenings About Albion Ad Rate Card ... Contact The Blake List Home Page Notice: The Blake List is currently on hiatus whilst we bring up a new mail server. In the meantime, you can check out recent postings in the Blake List Archive. What is the Blake List? Who Runs the Blake List? The Blake List is run by Albion.com, one of the oldest commercial sites on the Internet. The list-maintainer is Seth T. Ross. The editor is Mark Trevor Smith. All administrative queries should be directed to the address blake-request@albion.com. When Was It Started? The Blake List was launched in November 1993. As of March 1999, there have been over 7500 posts. A partial archive of list postings covers 1995-1997 plus 1999. The Blake List Archive If you're interested in what's been said so far, review the Blake List Archive. Albion Netdictionary Netiquette ... Albion.com and Seth T. Ross webmaster2004@albion.com

32. William Blake's Urizen Books william blake, a Chronology. By Charles Beauvais (Connecticut College). A year by year chronology of blake s life with links to sites containing blake http://facstaff.uww.edu/hoganj/contents.htm

The Urizen Books of William Blake Site by Joseph Hogan Department of Languages and Literatures University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Contents Introduction Themes and Context Navigating the Site Acknowledgements ... William Blake, a Chronology By Charles Beauvais (Connecticut College). A year by year chronology of Blake's life with links to sites containing Blake material. A Chronology of the Romantic Period By Laura Mandell (Miami U. of Ohio) and Alan Liu (U. of California, Santa Barbara). A year by year chronology of the major events of the Romantic Period with links to sites with material on the period. Outlines Glossary Bibliography Web Sites: Blake and Romanticism ... Appendix: Other Related Poems Comments Send comments to Joseph Hogan, hoganj@uwwvax.uww.edu The Book of Urizen Introduction Text Preludium Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III ... Back to Contents The Book of Ahania Introduction Text Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV ... Chapter V Plates Outline Back to Contents The Book of Los Introduction Text Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Plates Outline Back to Contents Appendix: Other Related Poems The Human Abstract To Nobodaddy Milton Back to Contents

33. The Blake Multimedia Project The blake Multimedia Project is an approach to studying and teaching the works of william blake using the tools of computer technology. http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Blake/blakeproject.html

The Blake Multimedia Project The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Book of Thel, America and Job To download complete hypertext editions of Blake's illuminated books, click here Course Flyer for Multimedia Blake Return To Index Return To Resume

34. An Introduction To William Blake By Alfred Kazin In 1827 there died, undoubtedly unknown to each other, two plebeian Europeans of supreme originality Ludwig van Beethoven and william blake. http://www.multimedialibrary.com/Articles/kazin/alfredblake.asp

AN INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM BLAKE by Alfred Kazin The real man, the imagination. I n 1827 there died, undoubtedly unknown to each other, two plebeian Europeans of supreme originality: Ludwig van Beethoven and William Blake. Had they known of each other, they could still not have known how much of the future they contained and how alike they were in the quality of their personal force, their defiance of the age, and the fierce demands each had made on the human imagination. It is part of the story of Blake's isolation from the European culture of his time that he could have known of Beethoven, who enjoyed a reputation in the London of the early 1800's. The Ninth Symphony was in fact commissioned by the London Philharmonic, who made Beethoven's last days a little easier. The artistic society of the day was appreciative of Beethoven. It ignored the laborious little engraver, shut off by his work and reputed madness, who was known mainly to a few painters, and held by most of them to be a charming crank. Beethoven's isolation was different. He was separated from society by his deafness, his pride, his awkward relations with women, relatives, patrons, inadequate musicians. He was isolated, as all original minds are, by the need to develop absolutely in his own way. The isolation was made tragic, against his will, by his deafness and social pride. At the same time he was one of the famous virtuosos of Europe, the heir of Mozart and the pupil of Haydn, and the occasional grumpy favorite of the musical princes of Vienna. His isolation was an involuntary personal tragedy, as it was by necessity a social fact. He did not resign himself to it, and only with the greatest courage learned to submit to it. If he was solitary, it was in a great tradition. As he was influenced by his predecessors, so he became the fountainhead of the principal musical thought that came after him.

35. Tate Learning | Artists In Focus | William Blake Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist william blake (17571827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/

Home Tate Britain Tate Modern Tate Liverpool ... Shop Online var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. Tate Britain is now presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Blake's work ever held (9 November - 11 February 2001). The aim is to show Blake as an artist, as a poet and as a man. William Blake Online is designed to enrich your experience of the exhibition by introducing some of Blake's artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools , designed especially for teachers' and students' needs. The Blake exhibition microsite is available

36. 489. Tiger. William Blake. The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur QuillerCouch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900. william blake. 1757–1827. 489. The Tiger http://www.bartleby.com/101/489.html

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37. William Blake - Auguries Of Innocence blake Prints Auguries of Innocence. To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity http://www.artofeurope.com/blake/bla3.htm

ART OF EUROPE blake info a to z home Blake Prints - Auguries of Innocence this site fine art prints the web

38. William Blake @Web English Teacher Lesson plans and strategies for teaching the poetry of william blake. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/blake.html

39. Poems Of William Blake By William Blake - Project Gutenberg Download the free eBook Poems of william blake by william blake. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/574

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40. William Blake - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell william blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Back to literary works. The Argument. Rintrah roars shakes his fires in the burden d air; http://www.levity.com/alchemy/blake_ma.html

William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Back to literary works The Argument. Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, and in a perilous path, The just man kept his course along The vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow. And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees. Then the perilous path was planted: And a river, and a spring On every cliff and tomb; And on the bleached bones Red clay brought forth. Till the villain left the paths of ease, To walk in perilous paths, and drive The just man into barren climes. Now the sneaking serpent walks In mild humility. And the just man rages in the wilds Where lions roam. Hungry clouds swag on the deep. Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell. The voice of the Devil. All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors. 3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies. But the following Contraries to these are True 1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age

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