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Was William Blake A Radical?

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Was William Blake a radical? Given the time when Blake wrote he certainly would have been considered a radical. He held strong social and political ideas and voiced them indirectly through his works. He was found to be eccentric and part of a group of radical writers and philosophers who were infatuated with the revolution in American and France. Blake lived in an England that despite its perceived views of liberty, enslaved millions of what they deemed socially inferior (Miner).
The mostly young men that fervently hoped the ideas of American and French democracy would catch on in Great Britain improving the social and political situation Blake supported civil liberties and championed individual thinking. He wished for a freer world where
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