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 Garden... Blake's Poems, Reborn As Bluesy Folk Tunes, Burn ...

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 ...

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Probably the most accessible poet of the Romantic period, William Blake the writer (he did a mean line in painting too) is best remembered today for his collections Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs ...

IN Mr. W. M. Rossetti’s edition of William Blake’s lyrical and miscellaneous poems, and Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job, with notes and an introductory essay by Mr. Charles E. Norton, we have ...

Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter The Czech poet Miroslav Holub once wrote in a celebrated essay that human beings have an inescapable fascination for ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Some of Radiohead's most famous lyrics could have been inspired by William Blake, it has emerged, after charity shop workers found a draft in a paperback book donated by the band's frontman. Lines ...

The exact plot in which the artist and poet William Blake was buried will be marked with a gravestone nearly 200 years after his death. Blake, who wrote the words to the hymn Jerusalem, died in ...