History Creator / WilliamBlake

Blake is also generally regarded as one of the earliest [[{{UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies}} anarchists]] (e.g. by Peter Marshall in ''William Blake: Visionary Anarchist''), and is also noted for [[ValuesResonance opposing slavery and championing free love]] decades or even centuries before either became particularly common. The lines from the Preface to his long poem ''Milton'' beginning ''And did those feet in Ancient Time'', set to music by Hubert Parry, is a strong contender for England's national anthem and is indeed sung in this capacity at international sporting events. [[note]] Israeli and evangelical Christian believers in the other UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} wouldn't like the words, though.[[/note]]

* ''Comicbook/FromHell'' reveals that his famous portrait of a monster "The Ghost of a Flea" was actually a portrait of the ghost of Sir William Gull, aka JackTheRipper.

Blake is also generally regarded as one of the earliest [[{{UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies}} anarchists]] (e.g. by Peter Marshall in ''William Blake: Visionary Anarchist''), and is also noted for [[ValuesResonance opposing slavery and championing free love]] decades or even centuries before either became particularly common. His ''Preface to Jerusalem'', set to music by Hubert Parry, is a strong contender for England's national anthem and is indeed sung in this capacity at international sporting events. [[note]] Israeli and evangelical Christian believers in the other UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} wouldn't like the words, though.[[/note]]

* NightmareFuel: Both the poems and his artwork.

Blake is also generally regarded as one of the earliest [[{{UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies}} anarchists]] (e.g. by Peter Marshall in ''William Blake: Visionary Anarchist''), and is also noted for [[ValuesResonance opposing slavery and championing free love]] decades or even centuries before either became particularly common. his ''Preface to Jerusalem'', set to music by Hubert Parry, is a strong contender for England's national anthem and is indeed sung in this capacity at international sporting events. [[note]] Israeli and evangelical Christian believers in the other UsefulNotes/{{Jerusalem}} wouldn't like the words, though.[[/note]]

Blake is also generally regarded as one of the earliest [[{{UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies}} anarchists]] (e.g. by Peter Marshall in ''William Blake: Visionary Anarchist''), and is also noted for [[ValuesResonance opposing slavery and championing free love]] decades or even centuries before either became particularly common.

Blake is also generally regarded as one of the earliest [[{{UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies}} anarchists]] (e.g. by Peter Marshall in ''William Blake: Visionary Anarchist''), and is also noted for opposing slavery and championing free love decades or even centuries before either became particularly common.

* NightmareFuel: Both the poems and his artwork.

* ''[[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172929 London]]''

* Also Urizen's sons in ''The Book of Urizen'': Thiriel = Air; Utha = Water; Grodna = Earth; Fuzon = Fire.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Fuzon does this to Urizen.

** The preface to ''Milton'' includes the short poem "And did those feet in ancient time", adapted into the hymn "Jerusalem" ([[NamesTheSame not to be confused with Blake's epic poem]] ''Jerusalem'', as seen below) by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916. This hymn is now considered one of Britain's greatest candidates to a national anthem, and is a staple at the Last Night of the Proms. EmersonLakeAndPalmer opens their album ''Brain Salad Surgery'' with a CoverVersion.

* Revenge\Series, Quotes his famous Infinite/Perception statement in the episode 'Perception'

* AGodAmI: Urizen certainly thinks so, being (in some versions) the first consciousness to emerge from eternity.

* ''FromHell'' reveals that his famous portrait of a monster "The Ghost of a Flea" was actually a portrait of the ghost of Sir William Gull, aka JackTheRipper.

* {{NightmareFuel}}: Both the poems and his artwork.
* TheOldGods: The Four Zoas are this not only to Blake's eternals, but to all human gods, angels and demons, [[{{CrossoverCosmology}}a few of whom cameo.]]
* {{OurNudityIsDifferent}}: Expect illustrations of the characters to be uniformly starkers. May cross over with AuthorAppeal considering Blake was a practicing nudist.
* {{PunnyName}}: With his 'eternals', usually with some indication to their [[{{MeaningfulName}} symbolic role]] within the story. Urizen = Horizon/Your Reason; Luvah = Lover; etc.

* {{Satan}}: As [[{{TheCameo}}we know him]], and also as an independent character of Blake's cosmology, as Urizen's time-bound form.

* TheOldGods: The Four Zoas are this not only to Blake's eternals, but to all human gods, angels and demons, [[{{CosmologyCrossover}}a few of whom cameo.]]

* TheOldGods: The Four Zoas are this not only to Blake's eternals, but to all human gods, angels and demons, of few of [[{{CosmologyCrossover}} whom cameo.]]

* TheOldGods: The Four Zoas are this not only to Blake's eternals, but to all human gods, angels and demons, of few of whom cameo.