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1757 – 1827William BlakeRomanticism · EnglandWilliam Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker whose visionary, spiritually intense work was largely unrecognised in his lifetime but is now considered foundational to Romanticism.