![]() Excellent books and commentaries have been written about his many connections to his time and place. Living all but three of his seventy years in London, he seems to have known, or at least met, quite a few of the writers, painters, and political agitators of his tumultuous era. Though several historians have thought he would have been more at home in the seventeenth century, among the Ranters, Diggers, Quakers, and Muggletonians, he himself kept up with current events in Britain, France, and America, and produced quite a bit of poetry about them, with his own engravings, such as America: A Prophecy and Europe: A Prophecy. But Blake himself certainly does, if he "belongs" anywhere, as he was born in 1757. ![]() Since there is only one recorded mention of William Blake outside England before 1800, in a French dictionary of artists published in Leipzig in 1789, a book about his reception in Europe only tenuously belongs in a journal of eighteenth–century studies.
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