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William Blake (1757, London--d. 1827, London) English poet, painter, engraver one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. biography Blake was born on Nov. 28, 1757, in London. His father ran a hosiery（袜类)shop. William, the third of five children, went to school only long enough to learn to read and write, and then he worked in the shop until he was 14. When he saw the boy‘s talent for drawing, Blake’s father apprenticed(做学徒） him to an engraver（雕刻师，雕工）. At 25 Blake married Catherine Boucher. They had no children. They worked together to produce an edition of