Thomas was born in London in 1716. After he attended Cambridge and Eton college Thomas spent most of his time traveling in France and Italy until 1741. His first poem, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, wasn't published until 1747 and his masterpiece, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, wasn't published until 1751. Thomas was a shy man but had a very large array of correspondences and friends. Thomas died in 1771.

William Blake

Blake was born in 1757 and was raised in London where he spent most of his life. He was not only a poet but a deep thinking book illustrator and engraver. He was a very imaginative and based his own opinions and beliefs around his deep thoughts and different ways of seeing things. He fancied a unique was of printing his poetry. A method where he engraved his works on metal and then hand-painted the prints...