A Brief Biography of William Blake

Have you ever heard of a guy name William Blake? No, if not I can tell you things about him. William Blake was born over his father’s modest history shop at Broad Street, Golden Square, London. His dad name was James Blake and his mother name was Catherin Wright Armitage Blake. Did Blake have any Brother and Sisters? Yes he had four brothers and one sister their names are: John Blake, Richard Blake, James Blake, John William, and Catherin Elizabeth (A1). William Blake father was a prosperous hosier. He encouraged young Blake’s artistic tastes and sent him to drawing school. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed to James Basire, Whom he stayed until 1778. After he left Royal Academy. In 1782 he married Catherine Bouncher, Whom he taught to read, write, and draw (A2).

Mr. Blake was a religious seeker but he was not a joiner, in 1789 he attended the general conference of the new church in London (A3). John Milton and William Blake had a close relationship. Milton loved Blake in his childhood (B1). What Blake did in 1802 he wrote his Patron William Hayley and write “I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and Nightly.” His wife told his friend Seymour Kirkup “I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company: he is always paradise (B2). What was it about Blake’s art? His paintings and engravings, notably his illustrations of his own work. But Blake was dismissed as an eccentric or worse long thereafter. His following increased, and today he is widely appreciated as a visual artist and as a poet (C1). Blake had it all. Poetry, Vision, Prophecy, and Exhortation. What did Blake inspire? Inscribes and Incorporates making the words flesh (D1).Blake was very creative in poetic in the landscape and provides a pathway (D2). Wil...

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...s in Blake’s art (I2). Was William Blake tired of things? Yes, he was tired of sedition. William Blake was heir to a system of ideas and symbols (J1). Blake’s work is clearly imbyed this spirit he had. Best expressed in his “Annotation to Watson.” Blake cast the Bible as a revolutionary document.” To defend the Bible in this year 1798 would cost a man his life.”(J2).What did Blake do? Adopts a remarkably similar strategy in such songs as “Infant Joy,” “The Echoing Green” and , most subversively, “ The chimney Sweyer.”(J4).Blake’s transition from innocence to experience movement between such work (J5). The cycles are saturated with a carnival sense of the world, the key inversion in marriage being that of Angels and Devils (J6). Often Blake then mean history is at once transcendental and immanent. Transcendental because this world is a world of sin ruled by Satan(K1)