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12/08/1827 Poet William Blake dies

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William Blake: Biography of a Great Thinker

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Blake's last years were spent at Fountain Court off the Strand. He died after promising his wife that he would be with her always.
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