But evidence unearthed for my new book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, suggests there may be some truth in the idea, promoted by WB Yeats, that Blake was in fact the son of a Dubliner.

On his 160th birth anniversary, revisiting Irish Nobel laureate WB Yeats' complex relationship with Rabindranath Tagore, who he first hailed as a mystic sage and championed for the Nobel, only to late ...

WILLIAM BLAKE, POET, ... The editors of this great undertaking, Messrs. Yeats and Ellis, approached Blake from a very different angle from that from which Swinburne had approached him.

William Blake, The Lovers’ Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827, pen, ink and watercolor, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery William Blake died on August 12, 1827.

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English engraver, artist and poet renowned for his visionary works. Born in London, he created iconic poems like 'The Lamb,' 'The Tyger,' and the stirring ...

William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.

ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS (530 pp.) —William Butler Yeats—Macmillan ($6.50). When William Butler Yeats paid his first visit to that high priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky, the ...

William Neal Yeats, prominent educator and accomplished musician and Resident of Willow Valley Retirement Communities, Lancaster, PA, since 2007, passed away at the Glen on February 18, 2024. Born in ...

A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.

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… ...