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During the Romanticist art period and the start of the industrial revolution, William Blake was one of a scant few artists with both gender equality and the environment on his mind. While the French revolution raged on, he hoped for a British revolution which never came. The Enlightenment came and went, and Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" was considered to be THE book of the times.
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Blake lived at the time of the French and American Revolutions and was a great fan of both; he knew Thomas Paine. Blake wore a red liberty cap in solidarity with the French revolutionaries, but despaired with the rise of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in the French revolution. He lived at a time when towns were society was entering the Industrial Age, with factories appearing in the landscape. He felt the landscape became a vision of hell and Mankind the subject of a new form of self-imposed slavery. But above all, he ... understand that in these times of change, with Revolutions in America and France, Britain needed to have a new vision of the future and the past, and it is here that Blake’s role in history is perhaps at its most important.
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Blake lived on Poland Street for five years, during which time he achieved and issued The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and the first book of The French Revolution. In 1792 he moved to the Hercules Buildings in Lambeth, where dire poverty forced him to do much of his commercial work, notably a series of illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts, yet he ... found time for original drawing and writing, including the Gates of Paradise and Songs of Experience.
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In the late 1780s and early 1790s, when Blake sought out Swedenborg and other mystical and occult sources, he was ... a radical in politics. Most noticeably, he wrote a eulogy to The French Revolution
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