Creator story
Surprising fact
Blake claimed to see visions from childhood — angels in a tree, the prophet Ezekiel — and said he conversed with the dead.
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William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827) was a visionary English poet, painter and printmaker, ignored in his lifetime and now seen as a genius. His mystical images of God, angels and the cosmos are unlike anything before them.
Blake's fusion of poetry and image and his private mythology made him a hero of Romanticism and the counterculture.
- A visionary poet, painter and printmaker.
- Invented his own mythology and illuminated printing.
- Ignored in life, now revered as a Romantic genius.
Key works
A key work by William Blake
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1795
Newton
Newton is one of William Blake's defining works.