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‘In England, the poet-engraver William Blake (1757-1827) spent his life delving into antecedent forms of art and became convinced that a flat, linear style such as Gothic was closer to the primal ideal than the art of Classical Antiquity.’*

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*(See Romanticism)

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[Yes, I still see Blake as more of a Romantic than a Neo-classicist, or at least as much; but perhaps he stands higher than such categorisations]

**[– ibid Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 738

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