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WILLIAM BLAKE

Born in /.imdoo,

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lie",'"" .nd Hell

Puhlirb" Songs

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(h" "fl--"""lar paimin", thaI Blah mad< in grn/ifllll< to a P"""'"

71xJlnllS Bu"" v:ba '''pp",",,;1 bim by ""ding bit w" for dt"tn::ing /",,,,!!. Blal:,

,bought jt ,"or< "biea/ '" paint in "'''f''Y''' a ,;:"..,-_"'=d "",/i",", ,ban oil, ill

it ,",'a, ,"a" d,,",mding of ,b, artin', ,h'l/

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illia", RI.kc ~ eng"""', ]"inter, lIe c"un'ed Roy"] ,..."dem;""'" John

I. ' .... and mystic ";'iona,), ~ wrotC. Haman and llenr}' Fusdi a",ong his ck,,,,,,

illust,.,cd and printed his own friends. n e n ,hough he had <~slik,,1 ~""

hooks. It ,,-,,; his belief ,h., tho: im.gin.,ion .. "1< ",h()<~ing himself. RI.ke claimed n) h."c ""'"

,uP""-;'" to, and mOn: rC11 than, the ,.,;"n.li,m gho,ts and a"gels >.inc<: childhood ~ ,,",'CJl th., he

and 11l.,.-ri"li'J11 of his day: he found himself h.d sl',)k<"Tl to the \r,rgin ,\!"y _ s<) it is dcar

finnl}' outside the ruku,..1 mainstrC1m in the that Fuseli', fa"...,y art was in tunC "ith and

Age of Enlib"'",nmCJl'. lIe "'.,,, .Iso "sul'l',Jncr inAucn""d his own. The muscular nude. of

of the F "'nch and American R.""IUlio,,-,. ,\Iichdmgclo arC ano.her dca, inspi,a,ion,