William Blake

English poet and visual artist who wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience and the prophetic books (Milton, Jerusalem) — a visionary who claimed to see angels in trees — and whose critique of 'mind-forged manacles' and 'dark satanic mills' is the Romantic condemnation of Enlightenment rationalism.

Created the critique of Enlightenment reason as a form of mental enslavement — the 'single vision' of Newton and Locke reduces the world to dead mechanism — and argued for fourfold vision (from single to ultra-fourfold mystical perception) as the recovery of imaginative wholeness.