Have you ever heard of a guy named William Blake? No, otherwise I can tell you things about him. William Blake was born in his father's modest story shop in Broad Street, Golden Square, London. His father's name was James Blake and his mother's name was Catherin Wright Armitage Blake. Did Blake have brothers and sisters? Yes, he had four brothers and one sister, their names are: John Blake, Richard Blake, James Blake, John William and Catherin Elizabeth (A1). William Blake's father was a prosperous hosiery maker. He encouraged young Blake's artistic tastes and sent him to drawing school. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed to James Basire, where he remained until 1778. He then left the Royal Academy. In 1782 he married Catherine Bouncher, whom he taught to read, write and draw (A2). Blake was a religious seeker but not a carpenter, in 1789 he attended the general conference of the new church in London (A3). John Milton and William Blake had a close relationship. Milton loved Blake in his childhood (B1). What Blake did in 1802 he wrote to his patron William Hayley and wrote: "I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven every day and every night." His wife said to her friend Seymour Kirkup “I have very little company with Mr. Blake: it is always heaven (B2). What was in Blake's art? His paintings and etchings, especially illustrations of his own work. But Blake was dismissed as an eccentric or worse much later. His following has grown and today he is widely appreciated as a visual artist and as a poet (C1). Blake had it all. Poetry, vision, prophecy and exhortation. What inspired Blake? He inscribes and incorporates making the words flesh (D1). Blake was very creative in the poetics of landscape and provides a path (D2). Wil...... middle of sheet......s in Blake's art (I2). Was William Blake tired of these things? Yes, he was tired of the sedition. William Blake was the heir to a system of ideas and symbols (J1). Blake's work is clearly imbued with this spirit he had. Best expressed in his "Annotation to Watson". Blake considered the Bible a revolutionary document." To defend the Bible in this year 1798 would cost a man his life.”(J2). What did Blake do? He adopts a remarkably similar strategy on songs like “Infant Joy,” “The Echoing Green” and, more subversively, “The smoking Sweyer.” (J4). Blake's transition from innocence to the experience of movement between these works (J5). The cycles are saturated with a carnivalesque sense of the world, the key reversal in marriage being that of Angels and Devils (J6). Blake often therefore means that history is both transcendental and immanent. Transcendental because this world is a world of sin governed by Satan (K1)