Title: Biography William Blake | Biography Online
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Content: Death
Blake died on August 12 1827. Eyewitnesses report that his death was a ‘glorious affair’. After falling ill, Blake sang hymns and prepared himself to depart. He was buried in an unmarked grave in a public cemetery and Bunhill Fields. After his death, his influence steadily grew through the Pre-Raphaelites and later noted poets such as T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. The esteemed poet, William Wordsworth, said on the death of Blake: “There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott.” The Art of William Blake
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Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “ Biography of William Blake”, Oxford, UK www.biographyonline.net, 1st June.