William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1966, I arrived at college to discover that William Blake had become the patron saint of a revolution. Students in those days confused the poet Blake with certain drawings he had made of leonine ...

The Index Art Book Fair, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Index Art Book Fair wrapped up its third year this past weekend, presenting 49 international publishers ...

Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of ...

Whatever else can be said about the poet, artist, and mythopoeic visionary William Blake (1757–1827), he is certainly the most forbidding of the English Romantic poets. “He approached everything with ...