Call William Blake a poet. Or a prophet. Or a visionary. Or a fool. Or just see William Blake as a white-hot comet, blazing through 18th century Britain's hidebound strictures and persnickety ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The English Romantic poet William Blake is being celebrated in modern style through hip-hop, rapping and beatboxing. The rapper ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...