William blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts 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". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham), he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".

Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic". Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England(indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions. Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary", and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".

Illuminated books:

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (edited 1794)Songs of Innocence (edited 1789)
The Book of Thel* (written 1788-1790, edited 1789-1793)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (written 1790-1793)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion* (edited 1793)
Continental prophecies*
America a Prophecy (edited 1793)
Europe a Prophecy (edited 1794-1821)
The Song of Los (edited 1795)
There is No Natural Religion (written 1788, possible edited 1794-1795)
The First Book of Urizen* (edited 1794-1818)
All Religions are One (written 1788, possible edited 1795)
The Book of Los* (edited 1795)
The Book of Ahania* (edited 1795)
Milton* (written 1804-1810)
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion* (written 1804-1820 additions even later, edited 1820-1827 and 1832)

Non-illuminated:

Poetical Sketches (written 1769-1777, edited 1783 and 1868 as a volume)
An Island in the Moon (written 1784, unfinished)
The French Revolution (edited 1791)
A Song of Liberty (edited 1792, published in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
The Four Zoas* (written 1797-1807, unfinished)
Tiriel* (written c.1789, edited 1874)

The works with * constitute the prophetic books.

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