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A Short Biography of William Blake

Author Name:

William Blake

Born As:

William Blake

Other Names:

William Blake

Born:

28 Nov 1757

Died:

12 Aug 1827




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Poet, engraver and illustrator                          
Selected Works:

Illuminated Books:

All Religions Are One - c.1788
There Is No Natural Religion - 1788
Songs of Innocence - 1789
The Book of Thel - 1789
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790 - 1793
Visions of the Daughters of Albion - 1793
America: a Prophecy - 1793
Europe: a Prophecy - 1794
The First Book of Urizen - 1794
Songs of Experience - 1794
The Book of Los - 1795
The Song of Los - 1795
The Book of Ahania - 1795
Milton - a Poem - c.1804-c.1811
Jerusalem - The Emanation of The Giant Albion - 1804 - 1820

Non-Illuminated

Poetical Sketches - 1783
Tiriel - 1789
The French Revolution - 1789
The Four Zoas - 1797

Illustrated by Blake

Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life - 1791
Edward Young, Night Thoughts - 1797
Robert Blair, The Grave - 1805-1808
John Milton, Paradise Lost - 1808
John Varley, Visionary Heads - 1819-1820
R.J. Thornton, Virgil -  1821 -
The Book of Job - 1823 - 1826
Dante, The Divine Comedy - 1825-1827. Blake died in 1827 with these watercolours still unfinished.