William Blake Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author. William Blake Life Stories, Books, & Links. William Blake. British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. He joined for a time the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in London and considered Newtonian science to be superstitious nonsense. Mocking criticism and misunderstanding shadowed Blake's career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance. To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.
(from 'Auguries of Innocence') William Blake was born in Soho, London, where he spent most of his life. The house of his parents, on the corner of Broad Street and Marshall Street, was erected upon an old burial ground. In 1767 Blake was sent to Henry Pars' drawing school, at No. 101 the Strand. His early poems Blake wrote at the age of 12.
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