William blake early life
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William Blake was a famous poet, painter, and engraver of the late 18th century and early 19th century.
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Blake was a radical, anti-authority figure.
William Blake was born at 28 Broad Street in Soho, London on 28 November 1757. His father James Blake was a hosier. He and his wife Catherine had 6 children.
William blake early life
Apart from William, they had 4 boys and 1 girl.
From an early age, William Blake was artistic. He also had ‘visions’ of things like angels. When he was 14 William was made apprentice to an engraver called James Basire. William served 7 years and became an engraver himself in 1779.
Blake also wanted to paint and the same year he became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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On 18 August 1782, William Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher at the Church of St Mary in Battersea. Blake also wrote poems. A book of poems called Poetical Sketches was published in 1783. In 1789 he published a book of poems called The Song of Innocence.
In 1793 Blake published Visions of the Daughter