William Blake was an English illustrator, engraver, and poet. He was born in London on November 28, 1757. His family had a comfortable lifestyle, so Blake had an idyllic childhood and was educated at home by his parents. Since childhood, Blake had a vivid imagination, and he often sensed and thought differently from the rest of his peers. He had incredible talent in the arts and wrote poetry as a boy. He apprenticed with an engraver and he made his living as an illustrator and engraver of written works. He even developed his own printing technique called relief etching. In 1789 and 1794, Blake published his most well-known collection of poems “Songs of innocence” and “Songs of Experience”. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica website,