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| | ART4NET - William Blake |
 | | William Blake was born in 1757, the third son of a London hosier. |
 | | Apart from a brief idyllic sojourn to Felpham, West Sussex, Blake lived in or near to London, a city which dominates much of his work, whether as the nightmare 'London' of the Songs of Experience, or the London which Blake saw as the 'New Jerusalem', the kingdom of God on earth. |
 | | What did not change also was Blake's passionate commitment to a vision of Christianity revisioned, and to a Spiritual, Psychological, Political and Sexual Renaissance, brought about by discarding the narrow moralising and conventionality of orthodox Christianity, and his vision of Albion reborn, in Everyman and in England. |
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