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 ...

The poem is called “Night ... However, and far be it for me to second-guess William Blake, might Bert be overdoing it? It’s one thing to avoid repressing one’s nature.

A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 million on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a world record for the English literary figure, according to ...

The online William Blake Archive hints at the range of his work rendered in text, engraving, printmaking, drawing and painting. It was rare for Blake to write a poem without illustrating it.

Image caption, The first edition of 'London' hand-drawn by the poet William Blake, 1825. The four quatrains can be seen clearly. As with the quatrains, the rhyme scheme gives a robotic or ...

Maurice Sendak's own work isn't the most valuable in a sale of his collections. That's William Blake's 18th century, ...

This etching of a small face may be one of William Blake's earliest engravings ... a collection of poetry full of vivid illustrations. But long before that, he worked as a teenage apprentice ...

The Blake Cottage Trust A dilapidated English cottage rented by William Blake, the lauded 18th-century Romantic poet, is about to get a much-needed makeover. Eventually, after crews finish ...

Was William Blake, long regarded as one of the greatest ... for the first time, Blake’s collected poems in 1893. The introduction, co-written with Edward John Ellis (a Pre-Raphaelite artist ...

A seaside cottage in England once inhabited by the 18th-century poet and painter William Blake will be restored, with plans to convert it into a museum. The house, where, in 1804, Blake wrote the ...