Who is William Blake?

William Blake was born in Soho, London on November 28, 1757.  William made pictorial depictions of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft’s book, ‘Original Stories from Real Life’, in 1791. Though it is still a subject of speculation whether the two writers had really met, there are evidences that they had similar opinions about sexuality and marriage. In 1793, he wrote ‘Daughters of Albion’, where he advocated sexual equivalence in marriage, and the rights that married women should have. As a crusader for human rights and freedom, Blake penned ‘Songs of Experience’ in 1794, making the poem ‘The Tyger’, the focal point of the whole collection of 26 verses. The poem is considered to be related to ‘The Lamb’, where he asks, “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” From 1795-99, William produced several popular illustrations and poems, including ‘The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy’, ‘Newton’, and ‘A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows’. The latter, is a pictorial representation of author John Gabriel Stedman’s ‘Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam’, showing his hatred for racial slavery.

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