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	William Blake
		Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother.
		Blake's important cultural and social contacts included Henry Fuseli, Reverend A.S. Mathew and his wife, John Flaxman (1755-1826), a sculptor and draftsman, Tom Paine, William Godwin, and Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), married to the wealthy grandson of the earl of Sandwich.
		Blake never shook off the poverty, in large part due to his inability to compete in the highly competitive field of engraving and his expensive invention that enabled him to design illustrations and print words at the same time.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wblake.htm (1193 words)

	William Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blake wanted to take his poetry beyond being just words on a page and felt they needed to be illustrated to create his desired effect.
		Blake’s preoccupation with good and evil as well as his strong philosophical and religious beliefs remained throughout his life and he never stopped depicting them in his poetry and engravings.
		Although Blake is not well known for being a specifically grotesque artist, it is his experiences and disgust with London society in the late eighteenth century that clearly emulates elements of the grotesque.
	www.modern-poetry.com /WilliamBlake.htm (588 words)

	WebMuseum: Blake, William
		Blake was born on Nov. 28, 1757, in London.
		William, the third of five children, went to school only long enough to learn to read and write, and then he worked in the shop until he was 14.
		Blake was a poor businessman, and he preferred to work on subjects of his own choice rather than on those that publishers assigned him.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/blake (449 words)

	William Blake - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Blake seems to have believed, or rather hoped, that self-published books could liberate the artist and author from the tyranny of censorship by Church and State but its time-consuming nature meant that his most personal and prophetic works reached a minute audience in his lifetime.
		Blake benefited from this group technically, by sharing in their advances in watercolour painting, and personally, by finding a receptive audience for his ideas.
		William Blake died in 1827 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields, London, England.
	www.egnu.org /thelemapedia/index.php/William_Blake (1352 words)

	The William Blake Art Archive
		William Blake was a engraver, poet, and painter who was born November 28, 1757.
		One somewhat peculiar thing of note regarding Blake: he painted based on his imagination, it is said that visons he had in earlier life of angels, historic and religious figures fueled this imagination.
		In 1791 Blake decided to move to Labeth and it was here that he started work on his so-called "prophetic books" which deal with the struggles of the soul -- freedom and it's interaction with organized religion.
	www.geocities.com /blakearchive (627 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - William Blake
		William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake.
		Blake believed that his poetry could be read and understood by common people, but he was determined not to sacrifice his vision in order to become popular.
		Blake's final years, spent in great poverty, were cheered by the admiring friendship of a group of younger artists who called themselves "the Ancients." In 1818 he met John Linnell, a young artist who helped him financially and also helped to create new interest in his work.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/116 (1070 words)

	Island of Freedom - William Blake
		William Blake, a visionary English poet and painter who was a precursor of English Romanticism, combined the vocations of engraver, painter, and poet.
		Blake spent all of his relatively quiet life in London except for a stay at Felpham, on the southern coast of England, from 1800 to 1803.
		Blake produced and published his other works himself, except those which remained in manuscript at his death, by using his own unique method of engraving both illustration and text on copper plates and coloring the printed volumes by hand.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /BLAKE.HTM (874 words)

	William Blake's Ecofeminism
		During the Romanticist art period and the start of the industrial revolution, William Blake was one of a scant few artists with both gender equality and the environment on his mind.
		Blake believed it was the ignorance of the older generation that socially conditions children to become a specific gender role.
		William Blake was intensely interested with the emancipation of slavery.
	www.geocities.com /westernarthistory/williamblake.html (960 words)

	William Blake
		William Blake was an engraver, a painter, and a poet.
		William Wordsworth is reported to have said "There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott."
		William Blake 1757 - 1827 Melba Cuddy-Keane The University of Toronto at Scarborough
	www.roebuckclasses.com /people/thinkers/blake.htm (324 words)

	William Blake - Biography and Works
		William Blake was born on 28 November, 1757, in London, England, the third son of Catherine née Wright (1723—1792) and James Blake (c.1723—1784) a hosier and haberdasher on Broad Street in Golden Square, Soho.
		In 1782 Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher (1762-1831).
		Blake was buried in an unmarked grave in the Non-Conformist Bunhill Fields in London where Catherine was buried four years later among other notable figures of dissent like Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan.
	www.online-literature.com /blake (2130 words)

	Albion Rising: Reflections on the Nativity of William Blake, by David Plant
		Blake the Mystical Artist' was published in Urania, or the Astrologer's Chronicle and Mystical Magazine, with a short commentary by R.C. Smith, the first of several astrologers to adopt the pseudonym 'Raphael'.
		Blake's is a nocturnal chart [3] with the last degrees of Cancer rising and the Moon above the horizon in her own sign - an impressionable Cancerian child with an unusually vivid imagination perhaps, but what set Blake apart was his ability to retain and even intensify his visionary powers throughout his life.
		Blake's best-known lyrics, like his 'Tyger, tyger burning bright" and the stirring lines from the prologue to Milton quoted above, [5] are breathtaking evocations of Sagittarian fire and vision.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /blake.html (2859 words)

	CGFA- Bio: William Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Blake was an English poet, painter, and engraver who created a unique form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original lyric and prophetic in the language.
		Blake, the son of a hosier, was born November 28, 1757, in London, where he lived most of his life.
		Blake's writings also include An Island in the Moon (1784), a rollicking satire on events in his early life; a collection of letters; and a notebook containing sketches and some shorter poems dating between 1793 and 1818.
	cgfa.sunsite.dk /blake/blake_bio.htm (1020 words)

	[minstrels] Jerusalem -- William Blake
		Blake was writing about the state of mind where he saw all life as one, and the beauty of life when experienced with a calm, clear mind.
		Blake was certainly referring to the chariots of fire which appeared to take the prophet Elijah up to heaven in the whirlwind (2 Kings 2) and those which surrounded Elisha on the hills as he claimed "Don't be afraid...
		From: Jane Clarke William Blake was a Knight Templar, the forerunners of freemasons, and in his later years most of his references included symbols currently used in freemasonry.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/26.html (5028 words)

	William Blake
		The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
		"Vala, Hyde, and Skofeld: Jerusalem, plate 51" by William Blake
		"Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion" by William Blake
	www.mythosandlogos.com /Blake.html (661 words)

	Some William Blake on the Web
		Britain's Tate Gallery presents a comprehensive exhibition of Blake as an artist, as a poet, and as a man. (This was at the Tate 9 November 2000 - 11 February 2001, then to the Metropolitan March 29 - June 24, 2001.
		William Blake and Allen Ginsberg: Poets in a Fallen World, Prophets of the New World (a thesis on the prophetic tradition in the poetry of Blake and Ginsberg).
		She insists on her inner purity and, in a long concluding lament to the "Daughters of Albion," on the varieties of energetic self-expression that cannot be delimited by materialist philosophies or legalistic codes.
	www.betatesters.com /penn/blake.htm (1342 words)

	Chiron and Friends - William Blake
		Blake was a strong libertarian, with a deep hatred of the tyranny that was rife during his lifetime.
		Blake is also quoted as saying, "In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." Jim Morrison got the name for his rock group, "The Doors", from these quotes.
		William Blake has the conjunction of these two planets in his Fifth House, which is the house of creativity and self-expression.
	www.zanestein.com /WilliamBlake.htm (1561 words)

	William Blake
		Blake taught her to read and write, and she became his assistant, taking off prints and helping him to color his engravings.
		It is probable that Blake's young passion frightened Catherine into what would now be called a permanently neurotic state, though some of the stories told of their relation are certainly apocryphal.
		It was only for a short period that Blake had been an intimate of the Paine-Godwin-Wollstonencraft circle; but he had walked the streets of London wearing the red cap of the French Revolutionists, and he was a fair target for anyone who wished to attack him on the ground of disloyalty to the state.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/burch/william_blake.htm (2274 words)

	William Blake at the Huntington
		As a pictorial introduction to Blake, it is the first publication to highlight the unique or rare pieces at the Huntington and to reproduce them in color.
		Blake's best-known poem is less about the tiger than the mind of the speaker.
		Blake may be saying, in a veiled way, that the reactionary forces are every bit as violent as revolutionary energies.
	www.huntington.org /HLPress/blakeathuntdetail.html (989 words)

	Buy.com - Visions of the Daughters of Albion : William Blake : ISBN 9780873281874
		The son of a haberdasher, Blake attended drawing school as a boy and later studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts.
		Blake passed most of his life in poverty and obscurity, doggedly adhering to his unpopular beliefs.
		Blake gave up poetry in his 60s to produce only pictorial art, but his great contribution as a poet was his prophetic myth-making and his stubborn originality.
	www.buy.com /prod/visions-of-the-daughters-of-albion/q/loc/106/33641830.html (441 words)

	William Blake, Albion Rose, a colour printed etching with hand-drawn additions in ink and watercolour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Blake, The Judgment of Paris, a water...
		Blake executed the same subject in about 1804 as a fl and white etching and engraving, to which he added the inscription 'Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc'd the dance of Eternal Death'.
		The figure of Albion, a personification of humanity and of Britain, is freeing himself from the shackles of materialism.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ2492 (250 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: William Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blake spoke in imaginative essences; he worked as a seer or visionary whose command over the figurative world spawned spiritual revelations.
		Blake integrated the visual and the literary to convey a complete artistic conception.
		Blake conceived both images and poetry under the same premise: that artistic visions should well up from the soul rather than the material world.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1247 (673 words)

	WILLIAM BLAKE art canvas reproductions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Blake claimed that, while he was sketching the flea, it had explained to him that fleas were inhabited by the souls of bloodthirsty men.
		The poor quality of this picture is due to Blake painting it in what he called 'fresco' (tempera), which has cracked and dulled with age.
		Blake saw Job's trials and eventual spiritual rebirth as parallels to the creative struggles of the artist.
	www.artgraphica.net /art-shop/william-blake-art.htm (1328 words)

	William Blake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Blake was born in 28a Broad Street, Golden Square, London on 28 November 1757, to a middle-class family.
		Blake began engraving copies of drawings of Greek antiquities purchased for him by his father (a further indication of the support his parents lent their son), a practice that was then preferred to actual drawing.
		Blake's "Newton" is a demonstration of his opposition to the "single-vision" of scientific materialism: The great philosopher-scientist is isolated in the depths of the ocean, his eyes (only one of which is visible) fixed on the compasses with which he draws on a scroll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Blake (3189 words)

	William Blake's mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age.
		Among Blake's inspirations were John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the visions of Emanuel Swedenborg, and the near-cabalistic writings of Jacob Boehme.
		In this work, Blake traces the fall of Albion, who "was originally fourfold but was self divided".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Blake's_mythology (463 words)

	Timely TV: William Blake: Inspiration and Vision
		Two centuries before the invention of the World Wide Web with its reliance on visual-verbal rhetoric, a visionary artist and poet was creating seamless combinations of image and word in the illuminated books of poetry that he wrote, engraved, water-colored, and printed.
		William Blake: Inspiration and Vision illuminates the life and artistic achievement of William Blake (1757 - 1827), the great English artist, poet, and mystic who sought to rid the world of hypocrisy and to release men, women, and children from the "mind-forged manacles" that chain them to walls of ignorance, disease, and poverty.
		Engaging, educational, and entertaining, William Blake: Inspiration and Vision provides a perfect introduction to Blake for high school and college classes in English or Art and for all lovers of sublime art and beautiful poetry.
	www.timelytv.com /blake/index.html (209 words)

	William Blake (1757 - 1827) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Born in London in 1757, William Blake's thinking was much influenced by the French Revolution, which was generally regarded as a sign of the dawning of a new age in Europe.
		Blake saw himself primarily as a prophet, for whom art was a way o...
		Blake's projections probe the psychological aura of this architectural wonder constructed by Sara Winchester, widow of the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, over the course of thirty-eight years, beginning in the late nineteenth century.
	www.wwar.com /masters/b/blake-william.html (1987 words)

	Tate Britain \| Past Exhibitions \| William Blake
		Plate 4 of Visions of the Daughters of Albion circa 1795.
		She is the emanation of Albion and a spiritual inspiration for all mankind
		In Blake's eyes he limits energy and is a vengeful lawmaker
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/blake/blakefacts.htm (371 words)

	Albion (Blake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the complex mythology of William Blake, Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Orc/Luvah, and Los/Urthona.
		Blake's painting of a naked figure raising his arms, loosely based on Vitruvian Man, is now identified as a portrayal of Albion, following the discovery of a printed version with an inscription identifying the figure.
		Blake also uses the name Albion in its traditional meaning, as a synonym for Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albion_(William_Blake) (327 words)

	Albion (Blake) Information
		In the complex mythology of William Blake, Albion is the primeval man whose fall and division results in the Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah, and Los/Urthona.
		The division of the primordial man is found in many mythic and mystic systems throughout the world, including Adam Kadmon in cabalism and Prajapati in the Rig-Veda.
		Blake also mentions Albion in his poem, The Little Boy Lost, in Songs of Experience.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Albion_(Blake) (119 words)

	William Blake: Dreamer of Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of Blake's Jerusalem, the last of his prophetic books, Allan Cunningham said, "The whole seems a riddle which no ingenuity can solve." Jerusalem is an extraordinarily complex work.
		As Robin Hamlyn and Michael Phillips have claimed in William Blake, the catalogue of the Tate Gallery's recent major Blake exhibit, "It draws together the characters and themes of his visionary universe in a drama of Redemption embracing the whole of mankind, and especially the British nation--on whose soil.
		The dream-narrative of Jerusalem is the most complicated of Blake's illuminated printings, for the story does not follow a chronological sequence of action.
	library.uncg.edu /depts/speccoll/exhibits/Blake/jerusalem.html (208 words)

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