Poet and artist. He has received world-wide acclaim as a 19th century English writer and artist, who was a highly regarded figure during the Romantic Age. Although he lived a life of near poverty, died in relative obscurity, and was considered, if not mad then certainly eccentric by his contemporaries, history would prove him to be an immensely influential poet, artist, and visionary. Blake was a study in contradictions and paradoxes: married but supported free love, devoutly religious while bordering on charges of heresy and supported revolutionaries while sickened by actual violence. He published at least 15 collections of poems. His most famous works were "Songs of Innocence" in 1789, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" in 1793, and "Songs of Experience" in 1794, the last of which included his most famous poem "The Tyger." He has inspired writers, artists, free thinkers, and musicians alike, throughout the years to the present day, where he remains an epic figure in English literature and art. Born third of seven children, he received formal education until age ten, when his mother started teaching him at home. Although he was baptized in the Church of England, his family was English Dissenters, protestants outside the Church of England. The Bible was a main influence in his life. On October 8, 1779, he became a student at the Royal Academy studying art for six years and often radially disagreeing with his instructors. When he married, his wife was illiterate but he taught her to read and write along with engraving. The couple was childless. A headstone was erected on his Bunhill Field grave site in 1927 and was moved to the present location in 1965. At this site, a flat ledger stone was unveiled in 2018. There is a cenotaph for him in St. Paul's Cathedral in London with the inscription "Artist, Poet, Mystic," along with a memorial plaque in St. James Church in Piccadilly. Dr. John Sampson edited and published first in 1911 then revised in 1913, a collection of his poems in "Blakes's Political Works," which included the unpublished poem "The French Revolution." Critics said that Sampson's narratives on each poem were excellent. Sampson's book has been reprinted numerous times with the last in the 21st century and the earlier copies are now a collector's item. In 2002, William Blake ranked 38th in the BBC's poll of the "100 Greatest Britons."