| birth_place  = [[Soho]], Lunnon, Great Breetain
| death_date   = {{death date and age|df=yes|1827|08|12|1757|11|28}}
| death_place  = [[Charing Cross]], Lunnon, Great Breetain<ref name="death">{{cite web|title=Blake & London|url=http://www.blakesociety.org/about-blake/blake-london/|publisher=The Blake Society|accessdate=15 August 2014|date=28 March 2008|archive-date=2015-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915004604/http://www.blakesociety.org/about-blake/blake-london/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| occupation   = [[Poet]], [[Painter|painter]], [[prentmakker]]
| spouse       = [[Catherine Blake|Catherine Boucher]] (1782–1827, his daith)
| movement     = [[Romanticism]]
| genre        = Veesionary, poetry
| notableworks = ''[[Sangs o Innocence an o Experience]]'', ''[[The Marriage o Hiven an Hell]]'', ''[[Vala, or The Fower Zoas|The Fower Zoas]]'', ''[[Jerusalem: The Emanation o the Giant Albion|Jerusalem]]'', ''[[Milton: A Poem in Twa Beuks|Milton]]'', ''[[An did those feet in auncient time]]''
|[[John Gardner]], [[Clive Barker]], [[Kenzaburō Ōe]], [[Paulo Coelho]], [[Jim Morrison]], [[Aldous Huxley]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Ben Okri]], [[Pete Doherty]], [[E. P. Thompson]], [[Cardiacs]], [[Alan Moore]], [[Jim Jarmusch]]
| signature    = William Blake signature.svg
}}
'''William Blake''' (28 November 1757&nbsp;– 12 August 1827) wis an Inglis poet, penter, an prentmakker. Lairgely unrecognised in his lifetime, Blake is nou conseedert a seminal feegur in the history o the [[poetry]] an veesual airts o the [[Romanticism|Romantic Age]]. Whit he cried his [[William Blake's prophetic beuks|prophetic warks]] war said bi 20t-century creetic [[Northrop Frye]] tae form "whit is in proportion tae its meerits the least read bouk o poetry in the Inglis leid".<ref>Frye, Northrop and Denham, Robert D. ''Collected Works of Northrop Frye''. 2006, pp 11–12.</ref> His veesual airtistry led 21st-century creetic [[Jonathan Jones (jurnalist)|Jonathan Jones]] tae proclaim him "faur an awey the greatest airtist Breetain haes iver produced".<ref>{{cite web | author=Jones, Jonathan| title= Blake's heaven |work=The Guardian |location=UK | url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1469584,00.html |date=25 April 2005}}</ref> In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the [[100 Greatest Britons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021204214727/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/|archivedate=4 December 2002|title=BBC – Great Britons – Top 100|work=[[Internet Archive]]|accessdate=12 April 2013}}</ref> While he lived in Lunnon his entire life, except for three years spent in [[Felpham]],<ref>Thomas, Edward. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=bilDAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Literary+Pilgrim+in+England A Literary Pilgrim in England]''. 1917, p. 3.</ref> he produced a diverse an seembolically rich ''[[wark o airt|œuvre]]'', that embraced the eemagination as "the bouk o God"<ref>[[W. B. Yeats|Yeats, W. B.]] ''The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats''. 2007, p. 85.</ref> or "human existence itself".<ref>Wilson, Mona. ''The Life of William Blake''. The Nonesuch Press, 1927. p. 167.</ref>