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What is William Blake most famous for?

William Blake is considered to be one of the greatest visionaries of the early Romantic era. Blake was primarily occupied as an engraver and watercolour artist.

Among his best known lyrics today are “The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” “London,” and the “Jerusalem” lyric from Milton, which has become a kind of second national anthem in Britain.

William Blake was born in London (1757-1827).

From childhood Blake wanted to be an artist, at the time an unusual aspiration for someone from a family of small businessmen.

While pursuing his career as an engraver, in 1779 Blake enrolled as a student in the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts. His greatest ambition was as an artist; his materials were watercolours and paper, not the fashionable oil on canvas, and he painted subjects from British history instead of the portraits and landscapes that were in vogue. Increasingly his subjects were his own visions. Most of Blake’s poetry embodies myths that he invented. 

(Source : adapted from https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake/Blake-as-a-poet )
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