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* History and Anthology of English Literature ——About William Blake Bob Williams (杨凤魁) 20080640326 ——————（杨晓蕊） Instructor： Prof. Zhang Baolai Speakers: General Introduction William Blake William Blake poet painter printmaker Early Life William Blake 1. Birth：on 28 November 1757 3. Early Education：educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage 4. Idea Enlightment：Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake 5.Royal Academy： On 8 October 1779 （about 10） 2.Birth Place：at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick St) in the Soho district of London Later life William Blake Blake met Catherine Boucher in 1782 and married her. Later, in addition to teaching Catherine to read and write, Blake trained her as an engraver. After his fathers death, William and former fellow apprentice James Parker opened a print shop in 1784, and began working with radical publisher Joseph Johnson. In 1793s Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Blake condemned the cruel absurdity of enforced chastity and marriage without love and defended the right of women to complete self-fulfillment. Death William Blake On 12 August 1827 （Ejoyed 70 years in his life） On the day of his death, Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series. Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to me. At six that evening, after promising his wife that he would be with her always, Blake died. Gilchrist reports that a female lodger in the same house, present at his expiration, said, I have been at the death, not of a man, but of a blessed angel.” Catherine paid for Blakes funeral with money lent to her by Linnell. He was buried five days after his death . William Blake Religious Views Although Blakes attacks on conventional religion were shocking in his own day, his rejection of religiosity was not a rejection of religion perse. Jesus, for Blake, symbolises the vital relationship and unitybetween divinity and humanity.Bl