“Let it no more be said that empires encourage arts, for it is arts that encourage empires.”
About William Blake
28 November 1757–12 August 1827
William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street, Soho, London, into a city that was becoming the commercial, imperial, and intellectual center of Britain. He died seventy years later, on 12 August 1827, in a modest room south of the Thames, leaving behind work that had attracted only a small and…