William Blake: Reverent Of The Bible

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William Blake was born in 28A Broad Street, Golden sq., London, European country on twenty-eight November 1757, to a middle-class family. He was the third of seven kids, 2 of whom died in infancy. Blake's father, James, was a tradesman.
William Blake once thought about for his individual views, poet is very regarded nowadays for his quality and creativeness, also because the philosophical and mystical undercurrents that reside at intervals his work. His work has been characterized as a part of the Romantic movement, or perhaps "Pre-Romantic”, for the most part, having appeared within the eighteenth century.
Reverent of the Bible, the ideals and ambitions of the French and yank revolutions influenced poet, also as by such thinkers as Jacob

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