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William Blake

Poet / Printmaker · British · 18th–19th c.

English poet and printmaker (1757–1827). He published Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and the Prophetic Books as engraved and hand-coloured books he created entirely himself. Critiquing the Industrial Revolution and rationalism from a mystical perspective, he was virtually unrecognised in his lifetime. Rediscovered in the 19th century, he became a founding figure of English Romanticism — and later a patron saint of the counterculture.