{"id":1118,"date":"2010-05-18T06:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/william-blake\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:44:46","slug":"william-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/william-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake, William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William <\/strong><strong>B<\/strong><strong>lake (1757-1827)\u00a0<\/strong>an eccentric English poet and artist, had his own distorted vision of Atlantis,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38042 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/William_Blake_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>in which the legendary British King Albion had once ruled Atlantis before it was destroyed by a deluge, leaving as remnants, the British Isles. The author <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/roberts-anthony\/\">Anthony Roberts<\/a> was very taken with Blake\u2019s poetic view of Atlantis and frequently quoted him.<\/p>\n<p>George Mills Harper (R.O. Lawton) (1915-2006) was a Distinguished Professor at Florida State University, who has written a paper on Blake&#8217;s interpretation of the Atlantis story and how he was influenced by the work of <a href=\"#TaylorThos\">Thomas Taylor<\/a><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/88638161\/Blake-s-Neo-platonic-Interpretation-Ofplato-s-Atlantis-Myth\">https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/88638161\/Blake-s-Neo-platonic-Interpretation-Ofplato-s-Atlantis-Myth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Blake (1757-1827)\u00a0an eccentric English poet and artist, had his own distorted vision of Atlantis, in which the legendary British King Albion had once ruled Atlantis before it was destroyed by a deluge, leaving as remnants, the British Isles. The author Anthony Roberts was very taken with Blake\u2019s poetic view of Atlantis and frequently quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,1896,25,6192,2508],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albion","tag-anthony-roberts","tag-british-isles","tag-george-mills-harper","tag-thomas-taylor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65729,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/65729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}