Call William Blake a poet. Or a prophet. Or a visionary. Or a fool. Or just see William Blake as a white-hot comet, blazing through 18th century Britain's hidebound strictures and persnickety ...

A show at the Getty Museum examines the British writer, painter and printmaker, who aspired in his work to achieve the mythical. Dominic Green ...

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If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye / ?Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the ...

What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism? Rather than ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art. By Walker Mimms Reporting from ...

A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 million on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a world record for the English literary figure, according to the ...

This post was updated Oct. 19 at 9:26 p.m. Visionary tales and texts are lighting up the Getty Center. On Monday night, the Getty Center unveiled the “William Blake: Visionary” exhibition to an ...

To save it from collapse, crews will conduct extensive renovations at William Blake's cottage in West Sussex. The Blake Cottage Trust A dilapidated English cottage rented by William Blake, the lauded ...

Blake's Cottage in Felpham, where William Blake produced some of his most famous work, is in desperate need of renovation - Chris Redgrave One of Britain’s most renowned heavy metal rock stars has ...