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Blake is a luminous and concise biography of the visionary poet, painter, and engraver William Blake. Peter Ackroyd, a noted expert on London’s mystical history, presents Blake as the quintessential "Cockney visionary," tracing his life from his childhood in a dissenting household to his apprenticeship as an engraver and his eventual creation of a vast, private mythology.

Ackroyd masterfully connects Blake’s radical spiritualism and "prophetic" art to the grime and energy of late 18th-century London. He portrays Blake not as a madman, but as a hardworking artisan who saw angels in the trees of Peckham Rye and God’s face at his window. The biography highlights Blake’s lifelong resistance to the cold rationalism of the Enlightenment, showing how his pursuit of "the infinite" left behind a legacy of unparalleled imagination in both literature and the visual arts.