Blake
Ranked #85 in Artist Biography
Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier was William Blake -- poet, painter, and engraver -- possessed one of the most original and fertile creative geniuses of his age. Yet his strange aloofness and claims of supernatural visions caused many in his own time and since to doubt his sanity, and much of his astonishing poetry and visual art remains unfamiliar. Now, Peter Ackroyd gives us a biography of the enigmatic 18th-century master, clarifying at last the true nature of Blake's extraordinary life and art. Ackroyd's narrative traces Blake's progression from his childhood in a Dissenting... more
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