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a painting of an old man with long white hair and beard sitting on the ground

William Blake earned his place as the patron saint of all freethinking outsider artists. One might say he perfected the role as he perfected his art—or his arts rather, since his poetry inspires as much awe and acclaim as his visionary engravings and illustrations.

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This watercolor copy after Phillips's portrait of Blake, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, was included by Thomas Butts in his portfolio containing Blake's twenty-one illustrations to the Book of Job.

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Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has always been a place of surprises, which has made it an absolutely fitting place for “William Blake: Apprentice and Master,” an exhibition that is at once didactic and very strange. The exhibition left me dazed by the technical detail but aware that I would never look at a Blake work in the same way again.

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After only a cursory glance at the works of John Donne, especially those written after he took orders in the church, a reader might easily assume that Donne was a devout man whose theology was relatively orthodox. And in many ways, this might be...

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1. Where did William Blake live between 1800-1803? Answer: Outside of London 2. When Blake’s work really got discovered, what did people think of him? Answer: People thought Blake was confused, weird, and mad. 3. How many times were William Blake married? Answer: William Blake was married to one woman all his life. 4. What did William Blake provide with his poems? Answer: Illustrations 5. William Blake and his wife did everything in making what book? Answer: Songs of Innocence (1789)

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