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William Blake (1757-1827)
William Blake was a British poet who grew up and spent most of his life in
London. He was a poet whose works are appreciated more after his death
than they were during his life. Many of the poems he wrote are a good
length for children and have imagery that they will be able to understand but
will still challenge them to think about what he might have been trying to say.
Aside from being a poet, William Blake was also an illustrator and a
painter. His watercolors inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy were the last
thing he worked on before his death.
