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William Blake – Visionary
Skellig – 25th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
Simon Avery’s Sorrowmouth
Heaven in a Wild Flower: Nick Drake and Willliam Blake
Electronica and Choral Blake, 2022
One King, one God, one Law: Monarchy and Dissent
Auguries of Innocence? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
A Blakean Year: 2022
Infant Joy: The early life of William Blake

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Arts & Culture

A selection of articles on the reception of William Blake in contemporary arts and culture.

Blakespotting: The Divine Essence of Things – Nick Cave and William Blake
Blake set to music – Adrian Leverkühn
William Blake Birthday Party and the Blake Society
VALA and Global Blake
Mark Linkous – Sparklehorse
The Rebirth of AEthelred Eldridge
Opposition is True Friendship: Christopher Hitchens and William Blake
Blakespotting: New Blake Designs from Alexander McQueen
The Rose in a Perfect Circle
Marcondes’ Tyger
New Ofili show at Tate Britain
“Jerusalem” and the Commonwealth Games
Blakespotting, February 2021
A Conversation with David Suff
Scarlet Woman: Heather Corinna

Reviews

Reviews of books, music, films and more

Review: Red White & Blake
Review: Daniel Kidane – Songs of Illumination
Sarah Haggarty’s Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: U Chicago, 2011
Blake’s Margins
Review: Music roundup for early 2019
Visions of Saint Maud
Seen in My Visions
Review: Lucy Cogan – Blake and the Failure of Prophecy
William Blake – Visionary
Review: Her Infernal Descent#1
Review: William Blake, Tate Britain
Review: Harriet Stubbs – Heaven & Hell: The Doors of Perception
“And all must love the human form”: Empire, London, and Islam in S.F. Said’s Tyger
Fernand Péna and Guy Pearson

Spotlight

Blake and Music:
 
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Articles on Blake's poems set to music
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Blake and Art:
 
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Articles on Blake’s art and his source of inspiration to other visual artists.

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Blake and Poetry:
 
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Articles on Blake's poetry and its influence on later writers

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