Arts - Romantics Blake, William · William Blake: A POISON TREE · Vertaling Cornelis W. Schoneveld van William Blake’s gedicht: London · Photos & poetry: Ton van Kempen, Autumn 4 · Hans Hermans Natuurdagboek: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Experience · William Blake Poetry William Blake Was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunnèd it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole, When the night had veiled the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. William Blake poetry kempis.nl poetry magazine More in: Archive A-B , Blake, William London (From: Songs of Experience) I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Londen W.
William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of 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".[1] His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[3] Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham),[4] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich oeuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[5] or "human existence itself".[6] Early life[edit] 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in an illustration of 1912. Blake was born here and lived here until he was 25. Apprenticeship to Basire[edit]