William Blake was not recognized in his lifetime, his work was not considered as brilliant, and his life, according to generally accepted norms, was mediocre.
The first romanticist of English literature lived in the era of the Symbolists. He was not understood by his contemporaries, people of the eighteenth century were either too orthodox, or too rational to perceive Blake's work with the necessary reverence.
William Blake during his life managed to create a huge number of works in the field of painting and literature. And it should be noted that unlike other artists of the brush and word, his creative skill with age did not diminish, but on the contrary, improved. By the end of his life, he made masterpieces of his work, for example, illustrations