Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study.

When William Blake (1757–1827) printed his “Songs of Experience” in 1794, it was as an answer and a companion to his 1789 “Songs of Innocence.” Thus, for example, The New York Sun has offered his two ...

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 ...

You also have the tiger, or should we say 'Tyger', as it's less from a fairytale and more from the poetry of William Blake ("Tyger, Tyger, burning bright; In the forest of the night"). The problem ...

The tyger and William Blake caused many a carriage jam on their daily promenades around London. And everyone looked at him and exclaimed, “That’s William Blake’s tyger.

A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how he helped us “dream outside the sphere”.

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 ...

Tempest says it came to her when reading The Tyger, by Romantic poet William Blake—its famous opening lines are “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright/In the forests of the night/What immortal hand or ...

Anyone closely familiar with Blake’s poetry would recognize that “The Liar” is a parody takeoff of Blake’s famous poem, “The Tyger,” by an unknown (and bad) parodist.