Blake's Poems, Reborn As Bluesy Folk Tunes, Burn Bright Martha Redbone, a singer of Native American and African-American descent, sets 12 of William Blake's poems to music on her new album, The ...

Blake’s most famous poem, generally because it IS great, and specifically for the rumination inspired by its series of unanswered questions. USC IS a college football blue blood.

I must create a system or be enslav’d by another man’s.”Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is ...

In particular, the two poems both titled "The Chimney Sweeper" offer eloquent examples of Blake's unsettling art. (One "Chimney Sweeper" poem comes from the Songs of Innocence; the other, from the ...

In February 1818, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge was sent a copy of Songs of Innocence, William Blake’s first illustrated book of poems, which had been published some 30 years earlier.He was both impressed ...

11 x 7 cm. (4.3 x 2.8 in.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. [London:] The Author & Printer W Blake, 1789, 1794 [but 1795] 54 relief-etched ...

Blake’s poetry, which he illustrated—or as he termed it, “illuminated”—range from the short, accessible and memorable verse of his 1794 collection, ...