WILLIAM BLAKE

A FAMOUS POET ,

PAINTER ,

PRINTMAKER

INTRODUCTION

• BORN ON 28 NOVEMBER 1757

• AT SOHO , LONDON , GREAT BRITAIN

• WAS A POET ,PAINTER ,& PRINTMAKER

• NOTABLE WORKS WERE SONGS OF INNOCENSE AND OF EXPERIENCE ,THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL ETC..

• DIED ON 12 AUGUST 1827 (AGED 69)

• AT SOHO , LONDON , GREAT BRITAIN

LIFE STORY

William Blake was an english painter , poet and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime. Blake is now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of poetry and visual arts of Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form “what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English Language.” His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him “far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced “.

PLACEMENT

• In 2002 ,Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC’S poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Although he lived in london his entire life ,he produced a diverse and symbolically rich oeuvre, which embraced the imagination as “the body of God” or “human existence itself”.

FAMOUS QUOTES

If doors of perception were clensed , everything would appear to man as it is infinite..

-William blake

YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHATS ENOUGH TILL YOU

KNOW WHATS MORE THAN ENOUGH

-WILLAM BLAKE

BY-SHIVAM SACHDEVA XI-C

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