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The term 'conversion narrative' lacks proper definition and can be understood more broadly than is often the case, underlining its fictive nature. I show this by reading William Blake's Milton a Poem ...
William Blake’s Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes (Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London; London: ...
Close to two centuries after his death, the mystical poetry of William Blake continues to be studied and cherished as one of the most distinctive voices in the English language. Born on 28 November ...
Drinking With Men author Rosie Schaap describes stumbling upon the words of "Auguries of Innocence" at the time she needed them most. When I asked Rosie Schaap, who writes the New York Times ...
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 ...
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 ...
Was William Blake, long regarded as one of the greatest English artists and poets, actually Irish? The idea may come as a shock to those who sing Blake’s words to what has become England’s alternative ...
For all his suspicion of the Catholic Church, William Blake found an understanding of mystical Christianity exemplified and celebrated by Teresa of Ávila, Madame Guyon and Dante. William Blake was ...