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.

Yeats’ name surfaced in a litany of other writers of English and Irish heritage, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Blake and Yeats’ pal T.S. Eliot, in the 15-minute “Summertime ...

Yeats admired Blake so much that he tried to claim him for the Irish. ... “William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever,” from which this project was spawned.

The influence of the poet William Blake on the work of W.B. Yeats, Van Morrison, and James Joyce was so important as to warrant a substantial study on the matter, Tom Paulin claimed yesterday.

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.

National Poetry Day 2018: Independent writers’ favourite poems from William Blake and Robert Burns to WB Yeats. Our selection of great verse from the 17th century to the age of Instagram ...

William Blake is a constant presence throughout Pullman’s works, contributing to the later novelist’s rewriting of Milton as a poet of the devil’s party, and Pullman clearly sees a fellow ... It was ...

Poet and artist William Blake confided to a barrister in 1825 that according to the Bible, he should have access to ‘a community of women’ because concubines were part of God’s plan.