Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Blake and his wife, Catherine, used to read Paradise Lost by John Milton together… um, in the nude. (Source.)
Blake once threw a drunk and disorderly soldier out of his yard. The soldier then falsely charged Blake with treason. (Blake was acquitted.) (Source.)
Blake's contemporary, William Wordsworth (also considered one of the greatest poets in the language), thought Blake was "mad" but was also more interesting than famous, sane poets like Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. (Source.)