William Blake
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WILLIAM BLAKE
The man
Poet, Painter William was unknown in his own times.
Neither the public nor his fellow Romantic poets knew him
and the few who did know him thought he was insane.
Wordsworth said about him « There is something in the
madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott ».
? gets recognition only decades after his death and was transformed into a cult figure of our modern age.
Self-taught man ( received an education only in art), he hated school which he regarded as « the great sin ».
? At first he wanted to be a painter.
?> He frequented nonconformists intellectuals.
That reinforced his hate of Establishments whether in
education, religion, education or governement.
He burned with a revolutionary fervour fed by the example of the America's independence (1776) or the.
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