Blakeianadj.
/ˈbleɪkɪən/ Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of William Blake or his work.
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Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1906 E. J. Ellis Poet. Wks. W. Blake 337 In more Blakean terms, they are Albion as Ijim, bearing Tiriel on his shoulders between East and West.
1907 Daily Chron. 27 June 3/2 There is something Blakean in his artistic conception of the human form as typifying abstract energy.
1930 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 687 The idea of ‘genitals being beauty’ in the Blakian sense.
1952 S. Spender Shelley v. 40 The beautiful poem To William Shelley..has a Blakian simplicity and innocence.
1954 Ess. & Stud. 7 110 Blake's ‘Jerusalem’..is betrayed by Parry's tune, the inimitable Blakeian imagery being obliterated by the prevalent vociferation.
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adj.1906