William Blake 
Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience 

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was a 19th-century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and an original thinker.