William BLAKE
William Blake was born in November 28, 1757 in Soho, London.
He was a precocious child with a lively imagination and was reprimanded
by his mother when he said he was seeing visions: he said the prophet
Ezekiel and the archangel Gabriel spoke to him. His mother, Catherine
Wright Armitage, was a member of the Moravian Church, a progressive
proto-Protestant church established in Moravia, today's Czechoslovakia,
in 1457. As a child, William Blake was brought up with Moravian teachings
based on a new birth into the teaching of Christ, pacifism based on passive
resistance, missionary work, and music. Many of the poems in "The Songs
of Innocence and Experience"were influenced by Moravian hymns
that the child heard in church.
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"The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy & Mirth,
Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth."
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