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Birth
Baby William Blake was born in London to James and Catherine Blake (Blake Archive) -
Seeing things
William Blake has his first vission of atree full of angles when he was 10 years old. (Art History) -
Career
William Blake becomes the apprentice to james Basire, a well known engraver and artist. -
Apprentoceship ends
williams Apprentaiceship ends and he is admittedas a student tp Royal Academy of Art's Schools of Design. He was an artist as well as a poet. (Blake Archive) -
Marries
William marries Catherine Boucher (Blake Archive) -
Poetry and Art
William privately published his Poetical Sketches, that was a collection of Poems he had wrote in the past 14 years. (Blake Archive). -
Work
William sets up a print shot with apprentice James Parker. It was short lived. (2 Art History) -
Roberts Death
William Blakes younger brother Robert died. This was an inspiration for several of his works and depicted it in a happy light because william claimed that he saw his brother’s spirit rise up through the ceiling, “clapping its hands for joy.” (poets) -
More Poems
William publishes the book; "songs of Innocence". This has 19 poems that inclued some of his most famous poems such as; The Lamb, The Dream, and Night. This was a higly regarded piece of literature and begain defining himslef as a poet and artist. -
Publishing
William Publishes his poem book, Europe: a Prophecy, Songs of Experience. Within this book is one of his most famous works, the poem; The Tyger. The Cambridge Companion, a literary critic review, to William Blake states that it is "the most anthologized poem in English." (edublogs) -
Poem Fly
one of my personal favorite poems was written in the book and part of his collection in Songs of Experience. Little Fly
Thy summer's play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away. Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me? For I dance
And drink & sing;
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing. If thought is life
And strength & breath;
And the want
Of thought is death; Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
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Move
Blake moved to the coast where he lived under the patronage of William Hayley in the town of Felpham. Here he Tought himself Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Italian so that he could read clasic works from other areas. Living here he wrote his famous "and did those feet in ancient time" poem. -
Charges
William had a scrape with a soldier who then accused him of assault and sedition. -
The result
William was acquitted of all charges and moved back to london wit his wife. -
Review
A critic, Samuel Taylor, was lent a copy of Williams poetry book Songs of Innocence and of Experience and considered Blake a “man of Genius," (poets 5). -
Death
William Blake dies at the age of 70 years old in his room 3 Fountain Court. He died from a disease called "the sickness to which there is no name" (Bio 4).
