william blake

     

William Blake (28 November 1757 — 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, an printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts.

Trivia about william blake

  • "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright, in the forests of the night"
  • He often had visions of angels & dead people; perhaps he saw a "Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright!", too
  • After his deafness had set in, British poet Algernon Swinburne wrote criticism of this "Tyger Tyger" poet
  • He engraved his poems such as "The Tyger", illustrated them & hand-colored the prints he made
  • "The Lamb", one of his "Songs of Innocence", asks, "Little lamb, who made thee?"
  • "To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower"
  • In his poem about a "tyger", he asked, "Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
  • In 1996 Peter Ackroyd pubilshed a biography of this poet who wrote "Songs of Innocence" in 1789
  • Ironically Catherine, wife of this poet, painter, & printer, was illiterate
  • One of this man's most famous poems begins, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night"
  • This poet innocently wondered, "Little lamb, who made thee?"
  • This 18th century visionary poet penned the "Songs of Innocence" & the "Songs of Experience"
  • He's the British author-illustrator whose work is seen here