William Blake biography

 William Blake  1757-1827


LIFE


Born in London, the son of a hosier, he was apprenticed to James Basire,

engraver to the Society of Antiquaries, and thereafter studied at the

Royal Academy.


He soon rejected the methods and models of fashionable painting and,

via an intense visionary mysticism, created, alongside many highly

competent commissions (mainly illustrations), an art of his own: fusing

poetry, engraving and book-binding into a single expression.


He died in poverty, leaving behind him many designs and engravings for

other writers' works as well as for his own poems, prophecies and

symbolic mythologies.


PRINCIPAL WORKS


Poetical Sketches  1783

Songs of Innocence  1789

Book of Thel  1789

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell  1790

The French Revolution  1791

Songs of Experience  1794

Visions of the Daughters of Albion  1793

America: A Prophecy  1793

Europe: A Prophecy  1794

The Book of Urizen  1794

The Song of Los  1795

The Song of Ahania  1795

The Four Zoas  1797

Jerusalem  1804

Milton 1804


THE POEMS


All three poems - THE TYGER, LONDON and A POISON TREE - are from Blake's 

Songs of Experience (1794).

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