Has anybody ever wondered how William Blake got to be a writer and engraver. William Blake loves to write, paint, and engrave. Well how about this passage will tell you all about William Blake, and how he got to be a writer, painter, and engraver. What this passage is going to be talking about is William Blake’s life, career, and the interpretation of his poems. The first topic that this passage is going to be talking about is William Blake’s life.
William Blake was born on November 28, 1757, in the soho district of London England (Biography 1). 1783: poetical sketches his first book of poems. 1794: songs of innocence and experience. 1804-20: the two last and greatest “prophetic” poems milton and jerusalem. Blake’s first attempt to articulate his full myth of humanity’s present, past, and future was the four zoas, began in 1796
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William Blake was a brilliant yet unconventional english poet, engraver, and painter (Shilstone pg. 413). His symbolic pictures and visionary poems are not always easy to understand because Blake developed an elaborate personal mythology that underlies virtually all the symbolism and ideas of his work. We cannot understand the vast reality beyond the material and achieve full control of ourselves until we learn to trust our instincts energies and imaginations (Shilstone pg. 413). For Blake, this belief was the basis for all personal, social, and religious truth. William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the romantic age. His writing have influenced countless writers and artist through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major and an original thinker (Biography 1). His only formal education was in art: at the age of ten he entered a drawing school and later studied for a time at the school of the Royal Academy of Arts. William Blake loves gothic art and painting (Abrams