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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) Born (1757-11-28) 28 November 1757 Soho, London, England Died 12 August 1827 (1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, London ...
Title page of Poetical Sketches. Poetical Sketches is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777.Forty copies were printed in 1783 with the help of Blake's friends, the artist John Flaxman and the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, at the request of his wife Harriet Mathew.
Martha Redbone's 2012 album The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake consists of twelve pieces of Blake's poetry. [ 39 ] In 1983, Mark Stewart of The Pop Group recorded a version of Jerusalem with various On-U label associates under the name 'Mark Stewart & The Maffia', on the Jerusalem (EP) , which makes heavy and repeated use of treated ...
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln, and select plates from other copies. Blake's Illuminated Books, vol. 2. William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press, 1991. Based on King's College, Cambridge, copy, 1825 or later. Songs of Innocence, Dover Publications, 1971. Based ...
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A more common, alternate reading – and one more in keeping with what is known about Blake, his education and politics, and the times in which he lived – is that the poem simply reflects his views that the Church was an oppressor of free thought. Blake wrote the Songs of Innocence collection to reflect the innocence into which each human is ...
The poem London by William Blake has inspired various musical interpretations, demonstrating its enduring influence across different artistic fields. Notably, Ralph Vaughan Williams adapted the poem in 1958 as part of his Ten Blake Songs , a cycle that reflects his approach to integrating Blake’s visual and poetic elements with musical ...
Most scholars however support Keynes, and All Religions are One precedes There is No Natural Religion in almost all modern anthologies of Blake's work; for example, Alicia Ostriker's William Blake: The Complete Poems (1977), David V. Erdman's 2nd edition of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1982), Morris Eaves', Robert N. Essick's ...