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William Blake didn't live during the Romanticism. He lived in the last years of the 18th century. He was the first poet to use imagination. He was an engraver and a painter before he became a poet. Blake supported the French Revolution and remained a radical throughout of life. He had a strong sense of religion. The most important literary influence in his life was the Bible. He claimed he had visions.
He was an individual poet, both in terms of his personal vision and technique. He supported abolition of slavery and egalitarian principles. He was influenced by the negative consequences of the Industrial Revolution. He was very interested in the conditions of the children.
He used symbols as a part of a deliberate attempt to avoid any kind of realism.
He studied Raphael and Michelangelo and he learnt the technique of representing exaggerated muscular bodies. Blake broke with the conventions of that time and created a new kind of art which emphasised the power of imagination.
Blake was also very active in publishing prophetic books in which he created a complex personal mythology and invented his own symbolic characters to reflect his social interest and denounce authority.
Some of his paintings are in the British Museum nowadays.
"Illuminated printings" are printings that were published with Blake's poem. Blake with this paintings represented the mean of the poem.

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Some interesting events of William Blake's life

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Some interesting events of William Blake's life

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https://learnodo-newtonic.com/william-blake-facts

Here there are some interesting events of William Blake's life.

These events can be summarized in 5 points:

1)  William Blake was the third son of James Blake, who owned a hosiery shop, and Catherine Wright Blake. William attended school only till the age of ten after which he was educated at home by his mother. He wanted to be an artist from an early age and when he was 10 his parents, realizing his talent, enrolled him in Henry Pars’s Drawing School in London.

2) At age 21, he became a professional engraver.  Blake’s early engravings were copies of designs of other artists but later he established his reputation and received commissions to engrave his own designs.

3)  His twenty-two engraved Illustrations for the Book of Job are considered to be his greatest masterpieces in the medium of engraving.

4) In 1826, Blake received a commission to illustrate for Dante’s Divine Comedy. The assignment was cut short due to Blake’s death but it is still considered one of his best works in the field.

5) During his life Blake was considered insane and was mostly unknown except to a few friends and faithful patrons. Interest in his work grew in the mid-19th century and by the 20th century he was held in high esteem for the profound, philosophical, creative and mystical elements in his works. Today William Blake is regarded as one of the finest artists and poets in Britain’s history. In 2002, he was placed 38 in BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

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Auguries of Innocence.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

In the American tv series "Penny Dreadful" are quoted 4 lines of a William Blake's poem to express the dream of a non-human character that tries to be accepted.

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Penny Dreadful . Look around you. Sacred mysteries at every turn..

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. William Blake

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A Poison Tree.
I was angry with my friend;

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I waterd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.

Till it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,

When the night had veild the pole;

In the morning glad I see;

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

This poem is "A poison Tree", written by William Blake.
This is one of the most important Blake's poems, in which the author expresses all his melancholy and frustation. For this reason the poem is quoted on the American tv series "The Originals".
Here the main character, Klaus, shows his own thoughts and feelings to the audience.

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Klaus reading William Blake's poem "A Poison Tree"

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OTROVNO STABLO - Vilijem Blejk Na svog druga Ijut beh, smesta Bes iskalih - Ijutnje nesta. Na dušmana Ijut beh, reći Ne hteh to - gnev posta veći. Zalivah ga ja u zloći Suzom danju i po noći I sunčah na smehu svom, Mameći ga mišlju zlom.

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This is a short estract from"The Mentalist", a tv series in which the famous William Blake's poem "The Tyger" is quoted.

The episode is based on Blake's quote. The protagonist, Patrick Jane, is released by the evil character,  Red John, after saying Blake's quote. Then, the protagonist, try to undestand what the evil character wanted to mean.

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#TheMentalist - Tiger, tiger, burning bright...

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The Mentalist S02E23 Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), Red John Jane says Lisbon that Red John said nothing to him... THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?