William Blake - Paragraph

William Blake - Paragraph

William Blake, poet and artist was born in London in 1757. During his early years he showed himself a dreamer and visionary. Beyond learning to read and write, he received no education, but began to copy prints and write verses at the age of ten. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to an engraver. He married Catherine Boucher at the age of twenty five and shortly afterwards set up a print shop. A patron of him provided him a cottage on the Sussex coast, he spent all his life in London. "The poet Sketches", a collection of his early poems, was published in 1783. With the help of his wife he published "Songs of Innocence" in 1789. "Songs of experience", was published five years after. His only book in prose named "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was published in 1790. His other books Milton was written in 1804-8 and 1804-20. He died at his sixty ninth years.