BLAKE, ROBERT

1599–1657, English admiral. A merchant, he sat in the Short Parliament (1640) and joined the parliamentary side in the civil war. He defended Bristol, Lyme, and Taunton against royalist attacks (1643–45). Appointed a "general at sea" (1649), he embarked on a brilliant naval career in his middle age. In 1650 he pursued the royalist fleet under Prince Rupert to Portugal, where he intercepted a large Portuguese treasure fleet at the mouth of the Tagus River. He caught up with Rupert in the Mediterranean and virtually destroyed his fleet. In 1651 he captured the Scilly Islands from royalist privateers and helped to reduce Jersey. In the first of the Dutch Wars he won several major victories against the Dutch and suffered one serious defeat. In 1655 he attacked and destroyed a Barbary pirate fleet at Porto Farino. In the winter of 1656–57 he blockaded the Spanish coast and sank the Spanish fleet at Santa Cruz. Made a member of the council of state in 1651, he helped to develop the effective Commonwealth navy.

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Blake's Grave: A Prophetic Book, Being William Blake's Illustrations for Robert Blair's the Grave, Arranged as Blake Directed
Book by S. Foster Damon, William Blake; Brown University Press, 1963
Subjects: Blair, Robert--1699-1746
...Being William Blake illustrations for Robert Blair The Grave...illustrated edition of Robert Blair popular poem...and rearranged as Blake directed, "form...Cromek asked Blake to illustrate Blair Grave. Robert Hartley Cromek...
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William Blake in This World
Book by Harold Bruce; Jonathan Cape, 1925
Subjects: Artists--Great Britain--Biography, Blake, William--1757-1827, Poets, English--19th Century--Biography
...popularity to the faithful descriptions and manly poetry of Robert Blair, and to the unrivalled graver of L. Schiavonetti." His...the "bad drawings," "the deformity and nonsense" by which Blake had tried "to represent immateriality." In Blakes drawings...
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William Blake: The Man
Book by Charles Gardner; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1919
Subjects: Blake, William--1757-1827--Biography
...Little William Blake was not like other...John, James, and Robert, and his sister...was agreed that Robert should live with...apprentice. Once more Blake was all mixed up...her advice; but Blake was not strong in...strangled him. Robert was a comfort to...
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Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eighteenth Century
Book by Wayne Glausser; University Press of Florida, 1998
Subjects: Blake, William--1757-1827--Knowledge And Learning, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Locke, John--1632-1704--Influence
...dispute arose between Robert and Mrs. Blake. She in the heat of...the relationship with Robert Blake." 94 She does not...evidence. "William" and "Robert" show full-plate figures...the design of Los and Blake, even if the sexual...
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The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing
Book by John B. Pierce; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Authorship In Literature, Blake, William--1757-1827, Writing In Literature, Written Communication In Literature
...investigative works by Robert Essick and Joseph...material form of Blake's work as an aspect...by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph...digitized forms of the Blake's works, will inevitably...and resistance. Robert Essick sees this...fundamental dimension of Blake's model of verbal...
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journal articles on: Blake Robert  - 1444 results

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"Once Only Imagined": An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi
Journal article by Kari Kraus; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Blake, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Eaves, Morris--Interviews, Essick, Robert N.--Interviews, Viscomi, Joseph--Interviews
...with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph...speaking of himself. (1) Blake scholars have long...iconify the future of Blake studies, I asked...editors--Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph...the early 80s? Robert N. Essick: Yes, I...essential to the Blake Trust series of the...
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Robert Steiner
Journal article by Nancy Blake; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 21, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Steiner, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Robert Steiner by Nancy Blake Robert Steiner belongs to his age, a troubled...Philosophicus. Paris, 1972. A Robert Steiner Checklist Fiction Quill...Pennsylvania State UP, 1992. NANCY BLAKE is Professor of Comparative Literature...
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Blake, Bataille, and the Accidental Processes of Material History in 'Milton
Journal article by Will Mcconnell; CLIO, Vol. 26, 1997
Subjects: Bataille, Georges--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Blake, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Historical materialism--Philosophy
...Being Formd: Thinking Through Blakes Milton (New York: Clinamen Studies, 1985), 2; Robert N. Essick, "The Return to Logos" in Critical Essays on William Blake, ed. Hazard Adams (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991); Jeanne Moska, Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness...
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G. E. Bentley, Jr. Blake Records. Second Edition
Journal article by Morton D. Paley; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Blake Records, 2d ed. (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...previously known that Robert Bowyer included Blake among the engravers...for its account of Blake or Blakes frontispiece (engraved by Robert Hartley Cromek...read, and which Robert N. Essick and I...Poem by William Blake" in Blake: An Illustrated...
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William Blake and the World's Body of Science
Journal article by George H. Gilpin; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 43, 2004
Subjects: Blake, William--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Science--Criticism and interpretation, Science--Portrayals, The Book of Urizen (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven and London: Yale...York: Doubleday, 1960); and Robert D. Altick, The Shows of London...appropriate to Urizen and his science. Blake uses "blockhead" as a term of...Bacon, eds. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon...
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magazine articles on: Blake Robert  - 393 results

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Jeremy Blake
Magazine article by Chris Chang; Film Comment, Vol. 39, November 2003
Subjects: Art, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Blake, Jeremy--Criticism and interpretation, Modern art--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation
...sequence was created by Jeremy Blake, and if you know your art history...Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell. In short, an entire...postwar American abstraction. Roberta Smith, the often clueless art...the New York Times, accused Blake of lacking visual originality...
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August's Anniversaries: Blake in State ... Streaming Ahead ... Malaya's Independence ... Richard Cavendish Looks at August's Anniversaries
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 57, August 2007
Subjects: Admirals--Appreciation, Anniversaries, Autonomy (Political science)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Autonomy--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Blacke, Robert--Appreciation, Fulton, Robert--Appreciation, Inventors--Appreciation, Malaysia--Political aspects, Malaysia--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Augusts Anniversaries: Blake in State ... Streaming...Cavendish Death of Robert Blacke August 17th, 1967...demeanour of an angry bulldog, Robert Blake must have been one of...influential in Bridgwater, Blake was a puritan and a republican...
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"Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces"; Menil Collection, Houston
Magazine article by Bruce Hainley; Artforum International, Vol. 46, September 2007
Subjects: Art, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Modern art--Criticism and interpretation, Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions, Rauschenberg, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Rauschenberg, Robert--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--United States
...contemporary scene." Regarding the last, Bois cites a 1972 review by Robert Pincus-Witten, which "mentioned Dorothea Rockburne, who had...eighty-seven mostly large works done over a three-year period. William Blake found the world, with much less trouble, in a single grain of...
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Robert Southey: Pathos & Tragedy
Magazine article by Paul Dean; New Criterion, Vol. 23, April 2005
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Biography, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Southey, Robert--Biography, Southey, Robert--Criticism and interpretation
...the truth of his insight than Robert Southey (1774-1843). Southey...Gray, Chatterton, Burns, and Blake had been making stylistic experiments...verdict of posterity. (1) Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810, by Robert Southey, edited by Lynda Pratt...
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Sir Robert Peel: The Making of a Party: Douglas Hurd Looks at the Way in Which a Tory Leader Took a Defeated and Demoralized Party, and Reinvented It to Appeal to a Different and Much More Modern Constituency
Magazine article by Douglas Hurd; History Today, Vol. 57, July 2007
Subjects: British history, 1815-1914--Personalities, British history, 1815-1914--Political aspects, Conservative Party (United Kingdom)--History, Conservative Party (United Kingdom)--Personalities, Peel, Robert--Evaluation, Prime ministers--Evaluation, United Kingdom--Political aspects
...READING M. Brock, The Great Reform Act (Aldershot, 1993); R. Blake, The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher (London, 1985...archive at www.historytoday.com Douglas Hurd is the author of Sir Robert Peel: A Biography, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 25...
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Don't Save the Blake 19 - They're Not Worth It; an Export Licence Has Been Refused for Some Blake Drawings. This Is a Primitive and Insular Response
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 8, 2005
Subjects: Blake, William
...years ago bought a batch of 19 Blake drawings in England and now...only poem ever written by one Robert Blair, a gloomy Scottish clergymans...significant role in the survival of Robert Burnss poetry, but that the...nothing to our knowledge of Blake and have neither particular...
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Dizzying Friends and Days; Novelist Robert Stone Revisits the Turbulent Sixties
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 14, 2007
Subjects: Stone, Robert
...to the palace of wisdom, said William Blake, patron poet-saint of many romantic folk...reluctant one. But the road of excess Robert Stone has explored in his fiction is vividly...PRIME GREEN: REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES By Robert Stone Ecco Press, $25.95, 240 pages
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Blake Millard
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2008
...Philipe LeBlanc, in the film "The Glass Chain" that was produced by Robert Hicks and filmed in the Fox Valley. After 10 years or so, the costume business became unmanageable for Blake. He sold Stage Rags to Ms. Julane Sullivan, who renamed the business...
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The Blake Show That Flopped; Unrecognised Genius: Two Works in the Exhibition, the Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth and, Right, Jacob's Ladder. the Flop Was a Turning Point for Blake, Above
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 17, 2008
...recreate the only one-man exhibition William Blake ever held. The exhibition next spring will...received only a single, negative review. Robert Hunt in The Examiner said: "The poor man...edition of the Descriptive Catalogue that Blake released to coincide with his exhibition...
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The Big Battle off the Centre Court; (1) World Stars: Roger Federer and James Blake with De Villiers at the Shanghai Masters (2) Etienne De Villiers: "Tennis Was Punching below Its Weight" (3) Farewell: Andy Murray Bowing out of Wimbledon Yesterday. but the Boss of Professional Tennis Could Also Be Forced Out
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 3, 2008
Subjects: Tennis
...Stars: Roger Federer and James Blake with De Villiers at the Shanghai...Be Forced Out. Byline: ROBERT MENDICK A BATTLE is raging...one in the morning from James Blake who was pleading with me toreinstate...alongsideSir David Frost and Lord Robertson, former secretary general of...
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encyclopedia articles on: Blake Robert  - 15 results

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Blake, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLAKE, ROBERT 1599 1657, English admiral. A merchant, he sat in the Short Parliament (1640) and joined the parliamentary side in the civil...
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Dutch Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...between the British and Dutch admirals, Robert Blake and Maarten Tromp . At the beginning...However, the victory of Tromp over Blake off Dungeness (Nov., 1652) gave the...West African slave trade. In 1664, Robert Holmes raided the Dutch colonies...
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Bridgwater
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...river and are used for scouring metals. Other manufactures are bricks, tiles, furniture, beer, and preserves. Admiral Robert Blake was born in Bridgwater. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Gray, and the Scots lyrics of Robert Burns . The work of William Blake , the first great romantic poet, began late in the 18th cent. Blake is unique: poet, artist, artisan...Minor romantic poets include Robert Southey best-remembered today...
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Tromp, Maarten Harpertszoon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...marked the passing of Spanish sea power. In June, 1652, his refusal to lower his flag in deference to the English Admiral Robert Blake started the first of the Dutch Wars . He won control of the English Channel by his victory (Dec., 1652) over the English...
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