William Blake

During the Romantic era, many significant events or occurrences had taken their places such as Industrial Revolution, French and American Revolution, Period of Enlightenment and also opposition to realism and scientific rationalization of nature. All of these events however, had triggered many poets to write or express their thoughts, beliefs and feelings through their poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time, several poets were kind of actively involved in a literary movement known as Romanticism and they were William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Samuel Coleridge and other famous poets in his time.
William Blake as one of the members of the movement can be considered as a very radical poet during that time for he was somehow preoccupied with the issues of liberalism, radicalism and also nationalism later on. He was portrayed as someone who was hostile towards all the revolutions and series of oppressions that had happened. During his lifetime, he was known as a Romantic poet, a painter and also an engraver. Although he was unlikely to be prominently recognized throughout his lifetime, he is now somewhat a renowned figure of Romantic era owing to his literary works and visual arts. It was said that myriad of his works are very eccentric and complex for the people back then in the late 18th century and early 19th century. According to one of his best companions, Henry Crabb Robinson, Blake was a genius artist and poet that his wits and intelligence were indescribable. Apparently, he was also considered as a Romantic poet due to the reason that many of his poems were composed illuminating these situations or conditions of living in the England throughout his days.
William Blake was perceived as someone who is visionary. Most of his poems were inspired and visualized through nature and supernatural elements that he then conveyed in his poems. It appears that he somehow could see visions during his early