William Blake

(1757-1827)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blake, William, 1757-1827 NRA: Blake William (1757-1827) Poet Painter and Engraver DNB: Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet LBT ID: WiBlake1827 VIAF ID: 54144439 LOC ID: n78095331	B/BAP: 1757-11-28 DIED: 1827-08-12
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English poet, engraver, painter, and prophet; his first illuminated book, Songs of Innocence, was published in 1789.
REFERENCES TO William Blake: Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 15 May 1824 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [11 October 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Found 1: ¶ 21 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1824 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Letters: 1828 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 1