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William Blake

1757 - 1827

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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Blake is the 237th most popular writer (down from 199th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 140th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Writer.

William Blake is most famous for his poetry and his paintings.

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Among writers, William Blake ranks 237 out of 7,302. Before him are Nelly Sachs, Ray Bradbury, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, J. D. Salinger, Paul Heyse, and Shota Rustaveli. After him are Truman Capote, Lucian, Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, Ferdowsi, and Prosper Mérimée.

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Among people born in 1757, William Blake ranks 3. Before him are Charles X of France, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. After him are Antonio Canova, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Pierre Augereau, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Robert Smith, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Rigas Feraios. Among people deceased in 1827, William Blake ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Alessandro Volta, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. After him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, Wilhelm Hauff, Ugo Foscolo, Samuel Crompton, and Wilhelm Müller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Blake ranks 215 out of 8,785. Before him are Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Howard Carter (1874), James Chadwick (1891), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), and Anthony Giddens (1938). After him are David Livingstone (1813), Saint Boniface (680), Catherine Howard (1523), Guy Fawkes (1570), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), and George Stephenson (1781).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Blake ranks 24. Before him are Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Aldous Huxley (1894), and Terry Pratchett (1948). After him are W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), and Anne Brontë (1820).

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