In 2014, the stars have aligned again for the resurrection of Blake's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. William Blake's works will be on display at the National Gallery of Victoria until ...

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 ...

William Blake, poet and artist extraordinaire, is buried in the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. just north of St Paul's Cathedral, and pretty close to the grave of John Bunyan. And at some point ...

William Blake’s old flat in Mayfair could be turned into a cultural centre – if, that is, campaigners get their way and developers don’t go ahead with plans for luxury flats. You might ...

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 ...

The former Mayfair home of poet and artist William Blake could be turned into a "national cultural centre" under new plans. Blake lived in two rooms at 17 Molton Street for 17 years, creating some ...

none has bettered Albert Roe’s profound study of the artist’s illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch ...

This etching of a small face may be one of William ... Blake. The British writer and artist is most famous for Songs of Innocence and Experience, a collection of poetry full of vivid illustrations.

They belong to William Blake and are ... the essential basics for engraving illustrations. Other plates show the wandering mind (and hand) of a young Blake, who began working for Basire as a ...

He's widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time. But it seems that even William Blake was prone to doodling as a child. Scientists have discovered a series of boyhood doodles ...

“I have often drunk my coffee by the grave of William Blake — though these days there are actually two gravestones dedicated to him in the small dissenters’ cemetery that he was thrown into ...