Byron, Shelly and Coleridge believed that the imagination was important - much more then rational thought. He was Associated with the Romantics because he had similar ideas that the imagination was very important. He married in 1783 to Catherine Boucher, based solely on love and to this day is defined as a romantic poet.
His studies required no payment but he was expected to supply his own materials throughout the six years he would stay. In 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House. Blake also claimed to have visions, most notably a vision when he saw and conversed with the Virgin Mary and the Angel Gabriel. In his childhood he was educated at home although he later attended a drawing school, Henry Pars' and was an autodidact.
He was primarily an engraver then painter until later writing his famous poems. William Blake lived from 1757 - 1827 in London.
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