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This 8 page paper provides a brief biography of Blake, which illustrates the different people and events in his life that influenced his work. Christianity was one of those things. Blake was decidedly not religious but he was spiritual and that is reflected in his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Boucher, an illiterate daughter of an unsuccessful market gardener, on August 18, 1792 (Bentley). He taught his wife to read and she helped him with many of the tasks associated
with his work (Bentley). William Blakes mother was a widow when she married James Blake. Catherine had belonged to the Moravian church, which had migrated from Germany; she returned
to the Church of England to marry James (Bentley). Blakes father had a very modest hosiery shop and the family lived over it, a building Catherine owned. William was the
third of six children; the only girl was the last born (Bentley). The family was poor, a condition William Blake would know most of his life. William received little formal
schooling but he learned how to read well (Bentley; WriteSpirit). He was, in fact, heavily influenced by his reading of the Bible, Milton, and both Greek and Latin classic literature
(WriteSpirit). Blake would later write about his lack of a formal education as a blessing: "Thank God I never was sent to school/To be Flogd into following the Style of
a Fool" (Bentley). As was the custom in that time, at age 14, Blake would be apprenticed to "James Basire, a highly responsible and conservative line engraver who specialized
in prints depicting architecture" (Bentley, 2009). Blake spent seven years with the Basire family and achieved a degree of success as an independent graver (Bentley). This came about after the
elder Blake and William interviewed with a very successful engraver, William Whyne Ryland (Bentley; Chislett 70). Blakes father could manage the fee but William did not want to be left
there; he told his father that the man would be hanged (Bentley). It was just eleven years later when Blakes prophecy came true, Ryland was hanged for forgery (Bentley). Blake
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