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William Blake 1757-1827 William Blake Blake’s life Born in London. He never went to school, but he learned to read and write at home, with his mother’s help. At 10, he was sent to drawing school. Then he was sent on apprenticeship with an engraver. At his twentieth, he ended his apprenticeship and he began graving on his own account. In 1782, Blake was married to Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Between his 12th and his 20th years he had written poems which later were to be printed under the title of “Poetical Sketches”. He at the same time studied at the Royal Academy, where he drew both from the antique and from the living model. “There Is No Natural Religion” and “All Religions Are one” were written by him in about 1788. He wrote poems and printed “The song of Experiences” in 1789 and then etched his earliest “Prophetic Books”, “The Book of Thel”. During the years 1788-1793 Blake mixed a good deal with the political radicals and the social reformers of the time. As early as 1789, Blake wrote “French Revolution” and Prophetic Book”. In 1790, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. In 1793,Blake issued a “Prospectus, To the Public”. In 1794, “The Songs of Innocence” was published again, together with “The Songs of Experience” . In 1804, Blake started to etch both “Milton” and “Jerusalem”. Blake’s political views Blake never tried to fit into the world, he was a rebel innocently and completely all his life. He was politically of the permanent left mixed a good deal with the radicals like Thomas Paine and William Godwin. Blake strongly criticized the capitalists cruel exploitation, saying that the dark satanic mills left men unemployed, killed children and forced prostitution. He cherished great expectations and enthusiasm for the French Revolution, and regarded it as a necessary stage leading to the millennium predicted by the biblical prophets Blake’s poetry Blake’s poetry has generally been divided into two groups: (1)Lyrical poems: “Po