William Blake is an influential person
William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who influenced countless writers through the ages.The most famous painting of his is The Ancient Days. His most famous poem is The Lamb.
William Blake is the most influential poet and artist of his time.
William Blake had an amazing ability to differentiate his art and poems by the way he used details to draw the reader or onlooker in. Blake’s way of drawing is as different as his way of writing or printing, he strays from tradition.” The gothic stress on a line was all important to Blake, who insisted always on linear design, on a clear outline, as against the chiaroscuro school favored by Sir Joshua Reynolds”(Raine 11). Instead …show more content…
His way of seeing things was with more intensity than any other poet or artist”As a mere child, he gave evidence of that visionary power, that faculty of seeing the creations of his imagination with such vividness that they were as real as objects of sense”(Smith 643). Blake’s way of seeing the creations of his imagination is so unique and different that many thought that he was crazy. Blake was a good writer,but he was not considered a great writer during his time. “Blake as a painter, is clearly no more the equal of the depictor of Adam than, as a master of language, he can be compared with Chaucer or Milton, still less with Shakespeare; and yet all these strange comparisons remain just”(Raine 5). During the time of his life, Blake was not up to the standards of his critics,thus he is not compared with Chaucer, Milton,and Shakespeare. Blake has many works, but did not publish most of them until his later years. “ He privately published his ‘Poetical Sketches’(1783), a collection of poems he had written over the previous years”(biography.com 1). Blake might have felt his work was not ready to publish right away or maybe his best work didn't come until later in his life. Despite that many critics thought his work wasn't up to the standards that had been set by poets before
William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who influenced countless writers through the ages.The most famous painting of his is The Ancient Days. His most famous poem is The Lamb.
William Blake is the most influential poet and artist of his time.
William Blake had an amazing ability to differentiate his art and poems by the way he used details to draw the reader or onlooker in. Blake’s way of drawing is as different as his way of writing or printing, he strays from tradition.” The gothic stress on a line was all important to Blake, who insisted always on linear design, on a clear outline, as against the chiaroscuro school favored by Sir Joshua Reynolds”(Raine 11). Instead …show more content…
His way of seeing things was with more intensity than any other poet or artist”As a mere child, he gave evidence of that visionary power, that faculty of seeing the creations of his imagination with such vividness that they were as real as objects of sense”(Smith 643). Blake’s way of seeing the creations of his imagination is so unique and different that many thought that he was crazy. Blake was a good writer,but he was not considered a great writer during his time. “Blake as a painter, is clearly no more the equal of the depictor of Adam than, as a master of language, he can be compared with Chaucer or Milton, still less with Shakespeare; and yet all these strange comparisons remain just”(Raine 5). During the time of his life, Blake was not up to the standards of his critics,thus he is not compared with Chaucer, Milton,and Shakespeare. Blake has many works, but did not publish most of them until his later years. “ He privately published his ‘Poetical Sketches’(1783), a collection of poems he had written over the previous years”(biography.com 1). Blake might have felt his work was not ready to publish right away or maybe his best work didn't come until later in his life. Despite that many critics thought his work wasn't up to the standards that had been set by poets before