id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7857 William Blake - Wikipedia .html text/html 15025 1782 73 Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[3] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[4] While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham,[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich Ĺ“uvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[6] or "human existence itself".[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7857.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7857.txt