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Blake died on August 12, 1827, and was buried here in
the Dissenters' Graveyard at Bunhill Fields on
Friday August 17. Blake's father and beloved brother
Robert had also been buried there, as had the
writers John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe.
Blake was buried in an unmarked grave, and so, says
Gilchrist, 'to a neglected life there followed
a nameless and dishonoured grave'. Gilchrist goes
on to describe the graveyard as 'a sordid Golgotha...a
squalid Hades...bare of art, beauty, or symbol
of human feeling'. A small monument now stands
at the approximate site where Blake was buried.
Nearest Underground:
Old Street
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