What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism? Rather ...

A cottage in England where William Blake lived and wrote "Jerusalem" will be saved from continued decay thanks to a new funding windfall.

You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (f… ...

The visionary creations of the English poet and painter William Blake inspired later writers such as Walt Whitman and James Joyce.

You are left wondering quite how he made the leap from Blake’s comforting children’s poem to god-on-god deicide. Still, William Blake would undoubtedly have approved of how Cope ends the song – with a ...

Blake’s words were lighting fires across time. Blake was also receiving messages from God and from angels, which he transcribed into his art and poetry.

William Blake’s Cottage Will Be Saved—and Transformed Into a New Museum The 18th-century poet wrote some of his most renowned works in the house in southern England, which has since fallen ...

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 ...

For the 100th anniversary of the Department of Drawings and Prints, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is selecting a different work to highlight each week.

Elsewhere in his unpublished writings, Blake seems to directly refute traditional faith in such a way that would, on the face of it, place him among the most militant atheists of his day, as when in ...