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As a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Paine, Blake was among the literati of London. His works did not gain much acclaim or commercial success until long after his death.

Although he had several patrons over the course of his life and produced voluminous works, he often lived in abject poverty. Though it is hard to classify Blake. Going against common conventions of the time, Blake believed in sexual and racial equality and justice for all, rejected the Old Testament. He focused his creative efforts beyond the five senses, for, If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro. From his c. 1. 80.

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He developed mythic creatures inspired by Greek and Roman mythology including Los, who represents the poetic imagination; Albion, who represents England; and Orc, who embodies youthful rebelliousness. His illustrations for the Bible. While Blake lived the majority of his life in London, he exerted a profound impact on future poets, artists, writers, and musicians the world over.

William Blake was born on 2. November, 1. 75. 7, in London, England, the third son of Catherine n. Young William was prone to fantastic visions, including seeing God, and angels in a tree. He would later claim that he had regular conversations with his deceased brother Robert. It was soon apparent that Blake. Noting something special in their son the Blakes were highly supportive of and encouraged his artistic creativity and thus began his education and development as an artist. He had early shown an interest in and aptitude for drawing, so, at the age of ten Blake entered Henry Pars.

Then, at the age of fourteen Blake started a seven year apprenticeship with engraver James Basire, the official engraver to the Society of Antiquaries. From his bustling shop on Queen Street, Blake learned all the tools of the trade that would become his main source of income. He was often sent out on assignments to create sketches and drawings of statues, paintings, and monuments including those found in churches like Westminster Abbey. The intense study of Gothic art and architecture appealed to Blake.

He also met numerous figures from London. After attending the Royal Academy under Sir Joshua Reynolds for a time Blake left because he found the intellectual atmosphere there too restrictive to his burgeoning artistic side. In 1. 78. 0 he obtained employment as an engraver with publisher Joseph Johnson. In 1. 78. 2 Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher (1. Although they had no children it was mostly a happy marriage and Blake taught Catharine to read and write.

They were a devoted couple and worked together on many of Blake. He had been writing poetry for quite some time and his first collection, Poetical Sketches, appeared in 1. While Blake was busy with commissions he also undertook the task of creating the engravings that would illustrate his own poetry, and he also printed them himself. He experimented with an early method of creating images and text on the same plate. His highly detailed illustrations often focus on parts of the human anatomy or fantastically imaginative creatures surrounded by various natural forms. Often tackling difficult metaphorical themes, his characters embodying inspiration and creativity do battle with oppressive forces like law and religion. He employed techniques for decorative margins and hand- coloured the printed images, or printed with the colour already on the wood or copper plate, the paint of which he mixed himself.

This attention to the craft and details of each volume make no two of his works alike. Romantic Horror Movies The Mayor (2017) more. He also illustrated works for other writers and poets including Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Other works finished around this time were America: A Prophesy (1. Europe: A Prophesy (1. Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1.

The Book of Urizen (1. In 1. 80. 0, the Blakes moved to Felpham in Sussex where William was commissioned to illustrate works by his then patron, poet William Hayley. In 1. 80. 3 Blake was charged with sedition after a violent confrontation with soldier John Scolfield in which Blake uttered treasonable remarks against the King. He was later acquitted. In 1. 80. 5 he started his series of illustrations for the Book of Revelations and various other publications including Geoffrey Chaucer.

Milton: A Poem was published around 1. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (c. Blake. There he finished his work on the Book of Job in 1.

John Linnell. The following year he started a series of watercolours for Dante Alighieri. William Blake died at home on 1. August, 1. 82. 7.

Unable to pay for a funeral, Linnell loaned the money to Catherine. Blake was buried in an unmarked grave in the Non- Conformist Bunhill Fields in London where Catherine was buried four years later among other notable figures of dissent like Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan. A grave marker now stands near to where they were buried. In 1. 95. 7 a memorial to Blake and his wife was erected in Poet. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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