Willam Blake

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William Blake : Romantic Master

William Blake was an 18th and 19th century British Romanticist poet who created many of his powerful literary works in the form of beautiful engravings , yet celebrating little success in publishing and artistry during his own lifetime (Gilchrist , 2008 . Despite his relative lack of popularity during his own time , Blake has left a literary legacy to the art form of poetry and craftsmanship , and stands as one of the masters of the Romantic movement . Although Blake was married and devoted to

his wife , he lived almost in a state of poverty during his lifetime , and his wife bore no children . Looked upon as a sort of eccentric madman , Blake did study and socialize within the London artistic circuit . He was devoted to the concepts within the New Testament and felt very spiritually as well as artistically inclined , believing that he could commune with angels and the dead . In regard to social justice , he abhorred all type of oppression , and stood firm for sexual and racial equality and justice . In keeping with the Romantic inclination to define beauty , Blake was mystically enthralled by the opposing concepts of good and evil , innocence and experience , and heaven and hell . In his primary or most popular works of literature entitled Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , Blake depicts the differences between the happy and innocent people and the shameful and guilty ones

In Songs of Innocence , Blake wrote a poem called The Lamb , which highlights...