A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem is to go on auction where it is expected to fetch up to £120,000. The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience, from around ...

A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem has come up for sale at Christie’s auction house, highlighting the poet and painter’s radical printing technique.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

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 ...

IN Mr. W. M. Rossetti’s edition of William Blake’s lyrical and miscellaneous poems, and Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job, with notes and an introductory essay by Mr. Charles E. Norton, we have ...

William Blake, The Number of the Beast Is 666, c. 1805 Credit: Jonathan Donovan In 1948, college student Allen Ginsberg was masturbating while reading William Blake in his apartment when he heard the ...

Although the British visionary, poet, and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was moderately successful as an engraver, people thought his art was bizarre, that his poetry was gibberish, and that he was ...

The English Romantic poet William Blake is being celebrated in modern style through hip-hop, rapping and beatboxing. The rapper and beatboxer, Testament, has combined the poetry of Blake with his love ...

William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...

William Blake’s Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray, introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes (Boissia, Clairvaux, Jura: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London; London: ...