William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… eccentric loner or outsider that his early biographers made him out to be. Blake had visions but wasn’t mad. He was a Londoner and lived in a thriving metropolis. He went to a drawing school, was apprenticed to an engraver and studied at … Patronage Poetry Salons William Blake (1757-1827) was born into a dissenting family at 28 Broad Street in Soho (London) where his father had a hosier shop. He was homeschooled and had precocious talents: ‘as soon as the child’s hand … of his ambitions for his commercial work. 1 . Alexander Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake: ‘Pictor Ignotus’, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1863), vol. I, p. 8. All references are to volume one of Gilchrist’s biography. In the 1780s Blake …
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