Poet & artist

William Blake

Printed his own illuminated books by a method he said his dead brother taught him in a vision, and was thought mad by nearly everybody who met him.

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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Born
1757-11-28, London, EnglandA Monday
Died
1827-08-12, London, EnglandA Sunday, aged 69
At birth
Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Cancer
Nationality
United Kingdom
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1757-11-28, London, England · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Londonthe zone used then

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunSagittarius6°31′Direct
MoonCancer8°07′Direct
MercuryScorpio26°27′Direct
VenusCapricorn18°41′Direct
MarsLeo20°10′Direct
JupiterSagittarius0°54′Direct
SaturnAquarius16°47′Direct
UranusPisces19°17′Direct
NeptuneLeo15°20′Retrograde
PlutoSagittarius20°04′Direct

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Death Chart

1827-08-12, London, England · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Londonthe zone used then

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunLeo18°56′Direct
MoonAries26°17′Direct
MercuryLeo19°56′Retrograde
VenusLeo3°58′Direct
MarsLeo9°19′Direct
JupiterLibra11°14′Direct
SaturnCancer14°51′Direct
UranusCapricorn25°19′Retrograde
NeptuneCapricorn13°55′Retrograde
PlutoAries6°12′Retrograde

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