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WILLIAM BLAKE: POET AND ARTIST

William Blake may have been the greatest poet/artist of all time. Blake was a major influence on Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Robert Plant, Bono, Bruce Dickinson, Kris Kristofferson, Thom Yorke, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T.

S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Pablo Neruda, Salman Rushdie, Jackson Pollock, Philip Pullman and many other poets, writers, artists and singer/songwriters. Blake's visual art has been a major influence on fantasy art and the graphic novel.

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Perhaps most importantly, Blake was the first great anti-establishment poet/artist to question the reigning orthodoxy of church, state and industry (which he called the "Satanic Mills"). Blake may also have been the first major English Romantic poet, and the first major English free verse poet as well.

He was also an early advocate of racial equality and women's ri