Comparing the poet, painter, and master engraver William Blake to his contemporary William Wordsworth in a 1991 London Review ...

If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...

William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...

Getty Center unveils new exhibition, ‘William Blake: Visionary’ An enlarged version of William Blake’s “Satan Exulting over Eve” is displayed on a Getty Center wall. The museum’s newest exhibit, ...

My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

This past Tuesday, the Getty Center opened its newest exhibition to the public — a show replete with images of mythological creatures, fantastic portrayals of nature and evocative realizations of ...