Author: william blake
William blake william blake (1757- 1827) is the first important pre-romantic poet in England, and he is a complex and multiple figure. Besides being a poet, he is also a painter and sculptor. One side of his art influences the other. He carved the illustrations of poems and paintings on a copper plate by the method he invented, and then printed and colored the pages with this copper plate. Reading Blake's works carefully, we can find that they are a whole composed of images and texts. Words are not only used to illustrate pictures, and pictures are not only used to express the original text. Both require explanatory or speculative reading.