The printer embodies the text on the page . William Blake, iconoclastic poet visionary and printer published his poetry with elaborate illustrations, creating a unique mythology for his prophetic vision. The engraved prints were hand-colored. He illustrated the works of Chaucer, Milton, Dante and contemporary, Thomas Gray in several emblem books.

Although Blake is associated with the Romantic Movement, his work is distinctively individual. The engravers art etches text on metal plates for printing. Blake engraved his hand- written text on to copper plates by etching with the word with caustic materials.  While the enlightenment thinkers called for an empirical proof of ideas Blake's works provide an empirical visceral proof of  vision embodied. His crafted works demonstrate the physicality of application. As a self-published author engaged in every phase of production, from concept to finished product, Blake represents bookmaking embodied in practice.

Dante Rossetti, who founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, also produced elaborately illustrated poetry books that paired image with text. He purchased Blake's notebook. Other printer poets include Laura Ryding, (Anarchy is Not Enough), Robert Graves (The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth), and Mark Twain ( The Mysterious Stranger).

Dante Rossetti, who founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, also produced elaborately illustrated poetry books that paired image with text. He purchased Blake's notebook. Other printer poets include Laura Ryding, (Anarchy is Not Enough), Robert Graves (The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth), and Mark Twain ( The Mysterious Stranger).

In this design, two plates from Blake’s Marriage and America depict the same figure and page composition. The selected images, depict Blake's portrayal of the human in exalted states of pure innocence and profaned descent. His ideas about the body, found a renaissance in the twentieth century with poet, Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) who had a vision of Blake in a railroad yard, where he wrote his "Sunflower Sutra" poem  Blake. Ginsberg created melodies for several Blake poems.  He always ended his performances with Blake’s “All the Hills Are Echoing”.

A native plant of the Americas, the sunflower first appeared in Europe during the mid 1500s and quickly became a  popular symbol for constancy based on its heliotropic properties. It is also a potent symbol of the revolution in thought known as the Enlightenment that was fostered by colonization, conquest and trade with the new world.  The two Sunflower poems of Blake and Ginsberg are quoted:

 Blake’s poem, “To the Muse”, is quoted on the page for printing.  His poem summons the ancient muse of a prior age, and  laments the loss of her fading voice. The post-modern poem below echoes Blake's threnody with ironic overtures: