William Blake

 William Blake was great believer in the lessons of the Bible and believed that it was a “great code of art.”  He believed songs are “two contrary states of the human soul.”  He was an engraver who drew the monuments of the London Church.   He taught his wife, Catherine to read and to help him work.  His pictures to go with his writings were “something important.”  His greatest love was his pictures.  He was more successful in death than he was in life.  He connects to artists, who were also writers.  He wrote about turmoil home life and his spiritual life.  His works were full of irony that mystified his liberal friends and he took a defiant pleasure in shocking readers by being deliberately outrageous.