effect creating paintings that depicted a new manner of pictorial narrating. One artist who combined these themes of literature and the visual arts, producing visions in the vein of poetic imagery was William Blake (1757-1827). These connections are especially distinct in paintings such as "The Ancient of Days" completed in 1794 as a visual image complementing his poem "America, a Prophecy", which depicts one of Blake's own visions of the Lord measuring the world with a compass. As well as the literary elements and pure imagination, which inspired his subject matter, Blake's portrayal has many other fe
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