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Blake, William (1757 - 1827)

Index to poems

  1. Ah! Sun-flower
  2. America: A Prophecy
  3. Auguries of Innocence
  4. The Book of Thel
  5. The Book of Urizen
  6. The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
  7. The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
  8. The Clod and the Pebble
  9. A Divine Image
  10. The Divine Image
  11. Earth's Answer
  12. Europe: A Prophecy
  13. The Four Zoas
  14. The French Revolution
  15. The Garden of Love
  16. The Grey Monk
  17. Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
  18. Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
  19. I Heard an Angel
  20. I Saw a Chapel
  21. Infant Joy
  22. Infant Sorrow
  23. Introduction to the Songs of Experience
  24. Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
  25. Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
  26. Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
  27. The Lamb
  28. The Little Black Boy
  29. The Little Vagabond
  30. London
  31. Mad Song
  32. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  33. Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
  34. Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance
  35. Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
  36. Never Seek to Tell thy Love
  37. A Poison Tree
  38. The Sick Rose
  39. Silent, Silent Night
  40. The Smile
  41. Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
  42. Song: Memory, hither come
  43. Song: My silks and fine array
  44. To the Muses
  45. The Tyger
Biography: 
  • Essick, Robert N.. “Blake, William (1757-1827).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
William
Family Name: 
Blake
Birth Date: 
November 28, 1757
Death Date: 
August 12, 1827
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
wife : Catherine Blake (from 1782)

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Romantic
Literary Movement: 
Unknown
Cause of Death: 
biliary cirrhosis
Buried At: 
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Finsbury, London
First RPO Edition: 
1997