I had decided to focus on reading health care articles and catching up on news stories instead of books but the other day after reading several twits about William Blake, I decided to check him out.
According to Google, William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"
From what I have read, so way I can see why he is considered the greatest artist Britain has produced and why one of my twitter friends said, “You have not lived if you have not read William Blake”.
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