Madman or Genius ? Philosopher - Poet - Painter - A Life - 1757 to 1827 - A Man with Phenomnal Lucidity....

Newton by William Blake

and Wisdom which came from within - A Swedenborgian - he was hailed by Swinburne, Rossetti and Yeats as the founder of the romantic movement in English Poetry - he bound his own books - he looked within and expressed himself and his ideas in symbolical languages. An extraordinary sensitive Poet. A man by name;

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William Blake...A student at the Royal Academy in 1779 - He rebelled against Rubens which he thought about as unfinished style...

Without nature as a reference he intertwined heaven and earth into visionary truth. Powerful paintings...

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Elohim Creating Adam by William Blake - c. 1795

with fragments from the tombs, old engravings inspired by Raphael and Michael Angelo....

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Pity by William Blake - c.1795

...Mystical state and intense spiritual paintings...

“Without contraries there is no progression.” - William Blake

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Poem - the Tyger by William Blake

Blake's first collection of poems was - Poetical Sketches - published in 1783

His final resting place is at an unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields, London, England...