3. Blake's Thames: Blake, William(1757-1827) was an English poet and artist whose best known books of poems are songs of Innocence and songs of Experience. The quotation used in Passage A comes from the first verse of a poem called London more information about william blake can be found from links at http://www.betatesters.com/penn/blakel.htm Collections of his works can be found at http://www.blakearchive.org3. Blake's Thames: Blake, William (1757 - 1827) was an English poet and artist whose best known books of poems are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The quotation used in Passage A comes from the first verse of a poem called "London." More information about William Blake can be found from links at http://www.betatesters.com/penn/blake1.htm . Collections of his works can be found at http://www.blakearchive.org