英国浪漫主义文艺从18世纪末开始。早期浪漫派之一是威廉·布莱克(William Blake,1757～1827)这个神秘诗人兼画家和雕板艺术家。他是自学成材的学徒,对基督教《圣经》里上帝造物和世界末日预言的故事有他独特的感受。从26岁起他自己雕板印刷他所创作的诗画,一集一集,虽然当时印数不多,后来却成为珍品。初期他的诗短小纯朴,能给人一种天真的神秘感。如: British Romanticism began in the late 18th century. One of the early romantics was William Blake (1757–1827), a mysterious poet and painter and carved board artist. He is a self-taught apprentice and has a unique feeling about the story of God’s creation and doomsday prophecy in the Christian Bible. From the age of 26 he has carved and printed his own poetry and paintings, a collection of episodes, although not many at the time, but later became a treasure. His poems were short and simple at the beginning, giving people a naive sense of mystery. Such as: