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William Blake

1757 - 1827

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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Blake has received more than 9,327,311 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). William Blake is the 199th most popular writer (down from 139th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 108th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Writer.

William Blake is most famous for his poetry and his paintings.

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  • 6.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Songs of innocence and of experience
1794
Poetry and prose of William Blake
Fine books
1927
Poems
1783
Songs of Innocence
1789
Illustrations of the book of Job
1825
The marriage of Heaven and Hell
1793

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Blake ranks 199 out of 7,302. Before him are Al-Masudi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Juvenal, Luís de Camões, Roald Dahl, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, and Tristan Tzara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, William Blake ranks 2. Before him is Charles X of France. After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Antonio Canova, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, and Erik Acharius. Among people deceased in 1827, William Blake ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Alessandro Volta, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. After him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Wilhelm Hauff, Maria Theresa of Austria, George Canning, Ugo Foscolo, and Ernst Chladni.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Blake ranks 140 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry VI of England (1421), William of Ockham (1285), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Roald Dahl (1916), and Michael Caine (1933). After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Cat Stevens (1948), Howard Carter (1874), Eric Clapton (1945), Mary Boleyn (1499), and Jane Birkin (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Blake ranks 19. Before him are Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), H. G. Wells (1866), Aldous Huxley (1894), and Roald Dahl (1916). After him are Anna Wintour (1949), J. K. Rowling (1965), John Milton (1608), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), and William Golding (1911).

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