Project Gutenberg on Nostr: English poet and painter William Blake was born #OTD in 1757. Author of exquisite ...

English poet and painter William Blake was born #OTD in 1757. Author of exquisite lyrics in Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience & profound and difficult “prophecies,” such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The First Book of Urizen, Milton, & Jerusalem. In the early 21st century, Blake was regarded as the earliest and most original of the Romantic poets, but in his lifetime he was generally neglected or dismissed as mad.

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