William Blake: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born	November 28, 1757 • London • England
Died	August 12, 1827 (aged 69) • London • England
Notable Works	“A Vision of the Last Judgment” • “Auguries of Innocence” • “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion” • “London” • “Milton” • “Songs of Experience” • “Songs of Innocence” • “The Everlasting Gospel” • “The First Book of Urizen” • “The Tyger” • “Vala or The Four Zoas” • “Visions of the Daughters of Albion”
Movement / Style	English school • Romanticism

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William Blake: “The Tyger”

William Blake, watercolour portrait by John Linnell; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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