William Blake

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Across
  1. 2. "Without contraries, there can be no _______."
  2. 3. Blake is considered a poet, _____, and visionary.
  3. 10. Songs of ______: the theme of innocence is stressed throughout this collection.
  4. 11. Booksellers employed him to engrave illustrations for publications (name most famous piece)
  5. 13. Claims to have seen a tree filled with _____
  6. 14. Songs of ______: the theme of the destruction of the state of innocence because it leads to awareness of evil and ugliness.
  7. 15. ______ mental powers worried his parents
Down
  1. 1. _______ Innocence occurs when an individual experience the contraries of life and are able to recreate the semblance of innocence while tempering it with the wisdom of experience.
  2. 4. 14 years old, Blake would be _____ to William Ryland
  3. 5. Companion volumes were written to show the "two _____ states of the human soul."
  4. 6. No formal ______ as a child.
  5. 7. Earned a living as a ______ engraver
  6. 8. Must pass through both innocence and experience to arrive at an existence based on _____ and happiness, to "progress" as a human.
  7. 9. trained as an ______ through an apprenticeship
  8. 12. Given credit for helping end the _____ era and influencing Romanticism