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 ...

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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 print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem is to go on auction where it is expected to fetch up to £120,000. The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience, from around ...

A prolific poet, printer, painter and publisher, William Blake is finally getting a place in two new Yale exhibitions. “Illuminated Printing: William Blake and the Book Arts,” a new exhibition that ...

When the critic Northrop Frye published “Fearful Symmetry” in 1947, unlocking for the first time the majesty of poet William Blake’s poetic code, little did he know he also was exposing the great ...

A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem has come up for sale at Christie’s auction house, highlighting the poet and ...

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 ...

He's widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time. But it seems that even William Blake was prone to doodling as a child. Scientists have discovered a series of boyhood doodles engraved on ...

The thatched cottage where poet William Blake wrote the words to the hymn Jerusalem, one of England's oldest windmills and the remains of a wild natural garden are among the historic sites at risk of ...