Summary 'London' by William Blake is a dark and dreary poem in which the speaker describes the difficulties of life in London through the structure of a walk. The speaker travels to the River Thames and looks around him. He takes note of the resigned faces of his fellow Londoners. The speaker also hears and feels the sorrow in the streets; this is the focus of the final three stanzas.
Accomplishments . Blake was perhaps the quintessential Romantic artist. Like his peers in the world of Romantic literature - Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelly - Blake stressed the primacy of individual imagination and inspiration to the creative process, rejecting the Neoclassical emphasis on formal precision which had defined much 18th-century painting and …