William+Blake

William Blake (1757 - 1827) was a poet and also a painter in London. He was always thought of by his parents and peers as different and was often shunned due to his wildly immaginative visions of God and spirits around him. This often is expressed as he describes his nonconformist attitude towards society in his works by saying that visions should come from the immagination not from what we physically see around us. His most popular works include //Songs of Innocence// (1789) and //Songs of Experience// (1794). Blake did not recieve much recognition for his poems until after his death.