WILLIAM BLAKEwas born in London in 1757. He was educated at home
and then worked as an apprentice to the engraver James Basire
before joining the Royal Academy in 1779. In 1782 he married
Catherine Boucher, and a year later began his career as a poet when
he publishedPoetical Sketches.This was followed bySongs of
Innocence(1789) andSongs of Experience(1794), which he also
designed and engraved. His other major literary works includeThe
Book of Thel(1789),The Marriage of Heaven and Hell(c.
1793),Milton(1804-8), andJerusalem(1804-20). He produced many
paintings and engravings during his lifetime. Blake died in
1827.
David V. Erdmanwas an American literary critic, editor, and
Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a
William Blake scholar. Erdman is the author ofBlake- Prophet
against Empire,The Poems of William Blake,The Illuminated Blake-
All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate
Commentary, and more.
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale
University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard.
His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence,
Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, and The
American Religion. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many
awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for
Belles Lettres and Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize,
and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lives in
New Haven, Connecticut, and in New York City.
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