In his first collection in 11 years, the writer conjures his youth and family, elegises old friends, and hints at sensual ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

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 ...

OXFORD, England, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William Blake around 250 years ago have been discovered by researchers using new ...

Through Nov. 30. Visit the museum’s website for hours and more information. The poem is famous, so we think we know it. But really, we only recognize the first stanza: “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / ...

A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 million on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a world record for the English literary figure, according to the ...

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 ...

Possessing an ethereal delicacy, at first seemingly naïve, but in actuality hinting at divine depths, William Blake’s paintings are truly visionary. But as respected as the English poet and painter ...

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, ...