William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
A rare poetry book by William Blake has sold for a staggering £3.4m ($4.3m), making it one of the most valuable ever. The 1794 copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, illustrated and printed by ...
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Like a lot of people, musician Susheela Raman was introduced to William Blake with the poemThe Tyger. When she was older, and moved to the UK from Australia, she would hear the song ‘Jerusalem’ ...
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 ...
London by William Blake was published in 1794. It tells the story of a speaker walking through the city of London and noticing suffering all around them. London was published in Blake's poetry ...
Although the British visionary, poet, and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was moderately successful as an engraver, people thought his art was bizarre, that his poetry was gibberish, and that he was ...
William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker, stands as a seminal figure in the realms of both art and literature. His works are often characterised by their mysticism, symbolism, and ...
William Blake is by no means the only historical figure to have reported on such ineffable experiences. And his apparent capacity to access parts of the imagination that were beyond the realm of the ...
Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of ...