William Blake, English poet, painter and printmaker

First of all, I'm very sorry for not being around lately, I had too much work to do.

Well, this post is dedicated to all those who deeply love poetry and English literature in general.

I have been reading some poems by William Blake and I found them quite amazing indeed! If you want to read English poetry please... start by this little guy. You may find it hard at first but he wrote one of the best lines ever in my opinion... you may dislike it, I don't know, but it is worth reading tho.

William Blake is such a good poet. He wrote wonderful things such as one that I have read a little time ago and strongly recommend: "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times"

Read also:

The Little Boy found, Laughing Song, A Cradle Song The Divine Image

Holy Thursday,Night, Spring, Nurse's Song

Infant Joy

And many many others.

On the day of his death, Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series. Eventually, it is reported, he ceased working and turned to his wife, who was in tears by his bedside. Beholding her, Blake is said to have cried, "Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to me." Having completed this portrait (now lost), Blake laid down his tools and began to sing hymns and verses. At six that evening, after promising his wife that he would be with her always, Blake died. Gilchrist reports that a female lodger in the same house, present at his expiration, said, "I have been at the death, not of a man, but of a blessed angel." (wikipedia)


It is a good way to see different ways of writing in English. This is considered very very old but you can find some words that you had never seen before.

I'll leave you for now, but before I go I would like to give you a link where you can listen one of the most beautiful pieces by this man, although its music was composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. And in my opinion it should be the England's national anthem, if it is that you don't like the Queen!!

Jerusalem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTVwFgL8Y7w