Full Name: William Blake

Father: James Blake (hosier).
Mother: Catherine Wright Armitage.
Wife: Catherine Boucher (m. 18-Aug-1782).

Date of Birth: 28 November 1757.
Birth Place: London, United Kingdom.

Date of Death: 12 August 1827 (aged 69).
Death Place: London, United Kingdom.
Cause of Death: Unspecified.
Remains: Buried, Bunhill Fields Cemetery, London, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Par's Drawing School, Royal Academy.
Occupation: Poet, Painter, Print maker.
Literary Movement: Romanticism.

Influences: The Bible, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Emanuel Swedenborg, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Fuseli.

Notable Work(s): Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Four Zoas, Jerusalem, Milton a Poem, And did those feet in ancient time.

English poet, painter and print maker William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) is considered significant figures in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Though Blake largely unrecognized during his lifetime but now he is remembered as one of the greatest literary figures and artists of Europe. His works influenced Samuel Palmer, William Butler Yeats, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hart Crane, Bob Dylan, Ford Madox Ford and T. S. Eliot.

Childhood & Early Life: William Blake was born at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick St.) in Soho, London, United Kingdom. His father, James Blake was a hosier and mother was Catherine Wright Armitage. He educated at home to his mother. At the age of eleven Blake entered Par's Drawing School. On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand. on 18th August 1782, Blake published him as freelance engraver. His main employer was the radical bookseller, Joseph Johnson and publisher of works by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. As a result he became friendship with Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Paine. In 1783, he wrote a collection entitled Poetical Sketches. His father died in 1784 and he returned to Broad Street for setting up in business as a print seller. After ending the partnership, Blake moved to nearby Poland Street.

Personal Life: In 1782, William Blake married a illiterate daughter of a market gardener named Catherine Boucher at the aged of 25. After married her, he moved to Green Street, near Leicester Square.

Later Life & Death: In 1789, He produced with the help of his wife Songs of Innocence (1789), Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) and Songs of Experience (1794). At aged 34, they moved to No 13 Hercules Buildings in Lambeth and published The French Revolution (1791), America: A Prophecy (1793) and Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) where he developed his attitude of revolt against authority, combined political belief and visionary ecstasy. In 1800 William Blake moved to Felpham in West Sussex. After three years later he returns to London and began work on his illuminated books Milton and Jerusalem. In May 1809, he held an exhibition of Blake's work at the Royal Academy but he failed to attract any significant interest and sank into obscurity. Although Blake rarely found customers for his work, he continued to produce poetry, paintings and engravings. He died on 12 August 1827 (aged 69) and he was buried at Bunhill Fields Cemetery in London, England.