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William Blake Biography

English Romantic painter, illustrator, printmaker, poet, watercolorist, draftsman, philosopher and writer
born 1757 - died 1827

Also known as: Uil'iam Bleik.
William Blake was born on Nov. 28, 1757, in London. His father ran a hosiery shop. The artist is the third of five children, he went to school only long enough to learn to read and write, and then William Blake worked in the shop until William Blake was 14. When he saw the boy's talent for drawing, his father apprenticed him to an engraver.

At 25 William Blake married Catherine Boucher. He taught her to read and write and to help him in William Blake paintings. They had no children. They worked together to produce an edition of his poems and drawings, as known as William Blake Songs of Innocence. The painter engraved both words and pictures on copper printing plates. Catherine made the printing impressions, hand-colored the pictures, and bound the books. The books sold slowly, for a few shillings each. Today a single copy is worth many thousands of dollars.

Blake's fame as an artist and engraver rests largely on a set of 21 copperplate etchings to illustrate the Book of Job in the Old Testament. However, William Blake did many paintings for which other artists and engravers got the credit. He was a poor businessman, and William Blake preferred to work on subjects of his own choice rather than on those that publishers assigned him.

A follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, who offered a gentle and mystic interpretation of Christianity, he wrote poetry that largely reflects Swedenborgian views. Songs of Innocence William Blake (1789) shows life as it seems to innocent children. Songs of Experience (1794) tells of a mature person's realization of pain and terror in the universe. This book contains famous William Blake The Tyger. Milton (1804-08) and Jerusalem (1804-20) are longer and more obscure paintings.

William Blake died on Aug. 12, 1827.

William Blake Poem: The Tyger (from Songs Of Experience)

A poem in 1794

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake Poem: The Lamb (from Songs Of Experience)

A poem in 1794.

Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee?

Little lamb, I’ll tell thee;
Little lamb, I’ll tell thee:
He is callèd by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb,
We are callèd by His name.
Little lamb, God bless thee!
Little lamb, God bless thee!

William Blake Poem: A Poison Tree (from Songs Of Experience)

A poem in 1794.

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water'd it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,
When the night had veil'd the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.