William Blake[William_Blake]

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A Cradle Song :
Poèmes 2008-04-17 (16419 affiches)

A poison tree :
Poèmes 2003-11-13 (11906 affiches)

Angel, The :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (10572 affiches)

Auguries of Innocence :
Poèmes 2003-11-13 (12943 affiches)

Crystal Cabinet, The :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9855 affiches)

Die kranke Rose :
Poèmes 2005-07-04 (9385 affiches)

From Milton: And did those feet :
Poèmes 2006-02-11 (8833 affiches)

Gnomic Verses :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9880 affiches)

Hornarul : ...să te știe aproape
Poèmes 2004-03-21 (12829 affiches)

I Saw a Chapel :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9692 affiches)

Introduction to Songs of Innocence :
Poèmes 2005-01-16 (11485 affiches)

Jerusalem :
Poèmes 2005-07-29 (14812 affiches)

London :
Poèmes 2005-09-05 (13405 affiches)

Mad Song :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9908 affiches)

Nevinovăție : Oare ?
Poèmes 2004-03-21 (15440 affiches)

Proverbs of Hell :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (10538 affiches)

Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9638 affiches)

The Chimney sweeper : From Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Poèmes 2012-12-05 (15687 affiches)

The Chimney-Sweeper :
Poèmes 2005-05-31 (17241 affiches)

The Divine Image :
Poèmes 2005-10-10 (9982 affiches)

The Garden of Love :
Poèmes 2003-11-13 (10156 affiches)

The Grey Monk :
Poèmes 2005-10-19 (9788 affiches)

the Lamb :
Poèmes 2005-01-29 (21952 affiches)

The Land of Dreams :
Poèmes 2003-11-13 (9738 affiches)

The sick rose :
Poèmes 2003-11-13 (14038 affiches)

The Tyger :
Poèmes 2003-11-17 (11224 affiches)

Biographie William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827) was a 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. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance.

Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier who encouraged Blake\'s artistic talents. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. In 1767 he was sent to Henry Pars\' drawing school. Blake has recorded that from his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks and that 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. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly.

Blake\'s first book of poems, Poetical Sketches, appeared in 1783 and was followed by Songs of Innocence (1789), and Songs of ExperienceE (1794). His most famous poem \"The Tyger\", was part of his Songs of Experience. In these works the world is seen from a child\'s point of view, but they also function as parables of adult experience.

Blake engraved and published most of his major works himself. Famous among his \"Prophetic Books\" are The Book of Thel(1789) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,(1790) The Book of Urizen,(1794) America(1793), Milton(1804-8)and Jerusalem.(1804-20).In the \"Prophetic Books\", Blake expressed his lifelong concern with the struggle of the soul to free its natural energies from reason and organized religion. Among Blake\'s later artistic works are drawings and engravings for Dante\'s Divine Comedy and the 21 illustrations to the book of Job, which was completed when he was almost 70 years old.

Blake never shook off his economic poverty, which was in a large part due to his inability to compete in the highly competitive field of engraving and his expensive invention that enabled him to design illustrations and print words at the same time. However, independent throughout his life, Blake left no debts at his death on August 12, 1827. He was buried in an unmarked grave at the public cemetery of Bunhill Fields. Though generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime, posterity rediscovered Blake and today he is highly rated both as a poet and artist.