The work of William Blake Studying William Blake, as a romantic poet, as a painter and also as a confrontational artist (born in London in November, 1757, a second child of a respectable tradesman.) represents for us the possibility to discover the English literature and especially the English poetry. The conditions of his birth were ordinary. A man who was not well recognized in his times but today he is considered as a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His works forms what can be regarded as the least read body of poetry in English language in comparison to its value it offers.