A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective ... thunderbolt for defying Jupiter – was described in Dante’s Inferno as seemingly unaffected by the flames ...

What’s the use of William Blake ... But within about a generation, Blake was re-discovered, first by the English poets Dante Gabriel Rosetti and A.G. Swinburne, then the American Walt Whitman ...

Its head transformed first into the adamantine St John the Evangelist eagle of Blake's watercolour Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car (1824-27) and then again into the "burning bright" head of ...

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Associate Professor in English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Queens' College, University of Cambridge William Blake’s Universe, the new (free ...

the William Blake House “would draw from the success of long standing historic houses in other European cities such as Mozart’s House in Vienna, Rembrandt’s House in Amsterdam, Dante’s ...