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Who influenced William Blake?

  • Dante Alighieri

    Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 6

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg

    Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • John Milton

    English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • Jakob Böhme

    German Christian mystic and theologian

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 0

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 3

  • Henry Fuseli

    Swiss born British painter, draughtsman and writer on art (1741-1825)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Ben Jonson

    English playwright, poet, and actor (1572–1637)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Giulio Romano

    Italian painter and architect (1499–1546)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • James Barry

    Irish painter (1741–1806)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • William Pars

    British artist (1742-1782)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by William Blake?

  • Czesław Miłosz

    Polish poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator. Nobel Prize winner (1911-2004)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 12

  • C. S. Lewis

    British writer, lay theologian and scholar (1898–1963)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 20

  • William Butler Yeats

    Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 9

  • D. H. Lawrence

    English writer and poet (1885–1930)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 1

  • Samuel Palmer

    British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker (1805-1881)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 1

  • Ben Okri

    Nigerian-born British poet and novelist (1959-)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Philip Pullman

    English author

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Bryan Talbot

    British comics creator

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 10

  • Charles Plymell

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13

  • Clive Barker

    English author, film director, and visual artist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7

  • George Richmond

    English painter (1809-1896)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Hannah Flagg Gould

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Olga Tokarczuk

    Polish writer and activist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Paulo Coelho

    Brazilian lyricist and novelist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • Ted Hughes

    English poet and children's writer (1930-1998)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7