The British Underdog William Blake is considered one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period. Although he was not greatly recognized in his time, all of Blake’s poetic and artistic works are viewed all over the world. Blake is better known for his poetry, but his career boosted from his arts that he started in his early years. Being that Blake was able to reach out to people with poetry and art, he is considered a very talented individual. Even though William Blake’s background set him up for his greatest works, it all ended in a tragedy. James and Catherine Blake guided their son into the art world, also while raising and having to worry about their four other children. William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 to James Blake, a hosier …show more content…
In Blake’s childhood, his parents encouraged his artistic talents, and enrolled him in Pars’ drawing school when he was ten. When he turned fourteen, they wanted him to be apprenticed to a master engraver, whose name was William Ryland, a much-respected engraver (Reinhart). At the age of 21 after Blake’s apprenticeship, he applied to start formal study of painting at the Royal Academy. Blake entered a drawing and it was possible that his sponsor was James Barry. Following that, on August of 1779 they accepted him in to the Royal Academy schools (Bloom …show more content…
Blake’s devotion to a humanistic apocalypse created through the display of exuberant energies and expanded imaginative perceptions has been an inspiration to two generations of twentieth century writers: first D.H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, William Butler Yeats, and Aldous Huxley, and later, Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roszak, Colin Wilson, and John Gardner, among others. If a poet can be judged by the quality and quantity of the attention he receives, Blake has certainly risen in the twentieth century from a vague precursor of Romanticism to one of the six major English Romantic Poets. (“William”