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london鉴赏_翻译（London _ translation appreciation） This article is contributed by lsyy198905 DOC documents may experience poor browsing on the WAP side. It is recommended that you first select TXT, or download the source file to the local view. About the poet William Blake was born on 28 November 1757, and died 12 on August 1827. He spent his life largely in London, save for the years 1800 to 1803, when he lived in a cottage at Felpham, near the seaside town of Bognor in Sussex. In began to attend Henry 1767 he Parss drawing school in the Strand. At the age of fifteen, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, making plates from which pictures for books were printed. He later went to the Royal Academy, and at 22, he was employed as an engraver to a bookseller and publisher. When he was nearly 25 Blake married Catherine Bouchier., They had no children but were happily married for almost 45 years. In 1784, a year after he published his first volume of poems, Blake set up his own Engr Aving business. Many of Blakes best poems are found in two collections: Songs of Innocence (1789) to which was added, in 1794, the Songs of Experience (unlike the earlier work, never published on its own The complete collection 1794). Was called Songs of Innocence and Experience Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Broadly speaking the collections look at human nature and society in optimistic and pessimistic terms respectively Blake thinks that you - and need both sides to see the whole truth. London This is a poem which makes sense to the modern reader, as it exposes the gulf between those in power and the misery of poor people. The picture of the city as a place of nightmare is common in the 20th century, but is perhaps surprising t O find in such an early text as this. We have to wait for the novels of Dickens and James Thomsons Victorian poem The City of Dreadful Night, before we find such a grim view of the city reappearing. Although there are several details which we need to note, we sho