My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

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

William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...

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 ...

The Brits have humored and horrified us with a number of very British mistakes over the years, with the almost exquisitely bewildering madness of Brexit standing in good company among other blots on a ...

The English Romantic poet William Blake is being celebrated in modern style through hip-hop, rapping and beatboxing. The rapper and beatboxer, Testament, has combined the poetry of Blake with his love ...