William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757–12 Ogos 1827) ialah seorang pemuisi, pelukis dan pencetak berbangsa Inggeris. Walaupun tidak dikenali ramai sepanjang hayatnya, Blake kini dipandang sebagai tokoh yang berpengaruh dalam sejarah puisi dan seni lukisan Zaman Romantik. Karya puisinya dikatakan membentuk "hasil puisi yang kurang sekali pembacanya dalam bahasa Inggeris dibandingkan dengan segi pencapaiannya", manakala seni lukisnya telah disanjungi sebagai "pelukis terhebat sekali yang pernah dilahirkan oleh Britain" dari seorang pengulas moden. Sungguhpun hanya sekali bersiar-siar di luar kota London untuk sehari sepanjang hayatnya, namun beliau tetap telah meninggalkan sebuah korpus yang berkepelbagaian dan kaya dengan simbolik, yang memeluk imaginasi sebagai "jelmaan Tuhan", atau "kewujudan Manusia sendiri".

William Blake
William Blake dalam potret 1807 oleh Thomas Phillips.
Pekerjaan	Pemuisi, Pelukis, Pencetak, Penyunting
Genre	Puisi berwawasan
Pergerakan sastera	Romantisisme
Karya terkenal	Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton a Poem

Bibliografi

Buku warna-warni

Potret dalam profil William Blake, dari Songs of Innocence and Experience, terbitan 1794

• c.1788: All Religions Are One
  • There Is No Natural Religion
• 1789: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  • The Book of Thel
• 1790–1793: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• 1793-1795: Continental prophecies
• 1793: Visions of the Daughters of Albion
  • America a Prophecy
• 1794: Europe a Prophecy
  • The First Book of Urizen
  • Songs of Experience
• 1795: The Book of Los
  • The Song of Los
  • The Book of Ahania
• c.1804–c.1811: Milton a Poem
• 1804–1820: Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Buku bukan warna-warni

• 1783: Poetical Sketches
• 1784-5: An Island in the Moon
• 1789: Tiriel
• 1791: The French Revolution
• 1797: The Four Zoas

Lukisan Blake

• 1791: Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life
• 1797: Edward Young, Night Thoughts
• 1805-1808: Robert Blair, The Grave
• 1808: John Milton, Paradise Lost
• 1819-1820: John Varley, Visionary Heads
• 1821: R.J. Thornton, Virgil
• 1823-1826: The Book of Job
• 1825-1827: Dante, The Divine Comedy (terjemahan bahasa Inggeris; Blake meninggal dunia pada tahun 1827 tanpa sempat menyiapkan lukisannya)

Mengenai Blake

• Peter Ackroyd (1995). Blake. Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 1-85619-278-4.
• Donald Ault (1974). Visionary Physics: Blake's Response to Newton. University of Chicago. ISBN 0-226-03225-6.
• (1987). Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blake's The Four Zoas. Station Hill Press. ISBN 1-886449-75-9.
• G.E. Bentley Jr. (2001). The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08939-2.
• Harold Bloom (1963). Blake’s Apocalypse. Doubleday.
• Jacob Bronowski (1972). William Blake and the Age of Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul. ISBN 0-7100-7277-5 (hardcover) ISBN 0-7100-7278-3 (pbk.)
• (1967). William Blake, 1757-1827; a man without a mask. Haskell House Publishers.
• G. K. Chesterton (1920s). William Blake. House of Stratus ISBN 0-7551-0032-8.
• S. Foster Damon (1979). A Blake Dictionary. Shambhala. ISBN 0-394-73688-5.
• David V. Erdman (1977). Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Times. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-486-26719-9.
• Irving Fiske (1951). "Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake." (Shaw Society)
• Northrop Frye (1947). Fearful Symmetry. Princeton Univ Press. ISBN 0-691-06165-3.
• Alexander Gilchrist, Life and Works of William Blake, (second edition, London, 1880)
• James King (1991). William Blake: His Life. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-07572-3.
• Benjamin Heath Malkin (1806). A Father's Memoirs of his Child.
• Peter Marshall (1988). William Blake: Visionary Anarchist ISBN 0-900384-77-8
• Blake, William, William Blake's Works in Conventional Typography, ed. by G. E. Bentley, Jr., 1984. Facsimile ed., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1388-3.

• W.J.T. Mitchell (1978). Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-691-01402-7.
• Victor N. Paananen (1996). William Blake. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7053-4.
• George Anthony Rosso Jr. (1993). Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas. Associated University Presses. ISBN 0-8387-5240-3.
• G. R. Sabri-Tabrizi (1973). The ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ of William Blake, (New York, International Publishers)
• June Singer, The Unholy Bible: Blake, Jung, and the Collective Unconscious (SIGO Press, 1986)
• Sheila A. Spector (2001). "Wonders Divine": the development of Blake's Kabbalistic myth, (Bucknell UP)
• Algernon Swinburne, William Blake: A Critical Essay, (London, 1868)
• E.P. Thompson (1993). Witness Against the Beast. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22515-9.
• W. M. Rossetti (editor), The Poetical Works of William Blake, (London, 1874)
• A. G. B. Russell (1912). Engravings of William Blake.
• Basil de Sélincourt, William Blake, (London, 1909)
• Joseph Viscomi (1993). Blake and the Idea of the Book, (Princeton UP). ISBN 0-691-06962-X.
• David Weir (2003). Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance, (SUNY Press)
• Jason Whittaker (1999). William Blake and the Myths of Britain, (Macmillan)
• William Butler Yeats (1903). Ideas of Good and Evil. Mengandungi esei.

Pautan luar

• Poems by William Blake at Poetry Archive
• William Blake on BBC Poetry Season