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William Blake was an English poet, painter, engraver, and printmaker and is considered one of the most influential and representative artists of the Romantic Age. While he was alive, his work was largely unrecognized. Back then, his contemporaries thought his idiosyncratic views were unreasonable. However, his visual work and poetry are now celebrated and regarded as groundbreaking and immensely creative.
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EARLY LIFE
- William Blake was born on November 28, 1757, in the district of Soho in London, England.
- He was born the third of seven children; only five survived infancy.
- His parents, James and Catherine Wright Blake, raised their c
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