Famous Authors: William Blake

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English poet, engraver, painter and mystic William Blake is famed for his symbolic expressions of religious visions. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's works, such as The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, are well-known today. Through period documents and other archival material, this documentary program explores the life, poetry and artwork of the multitalented spiritualist.