Poet, painter and mystic William Blake was born Nov. 28, 1757 (d. 1827). Considered a madman by his contemporaries his work received little attention while he was alive and for decades after his death. To Symbolists and neo-Romantics, however, Blake is a transcendent figure…
Above: from Blake’s Gesamtkunstwerk - the collection Songs of Experience, 1794 - “The Tyger”
