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Recent Posts

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

Zoavision

A collection of videos and podcasts exploring the life, work, and afterlife of William Blake

Arts & Culture

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

Bible illustrations published on Blake Archive
The Satanic Verses and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake set to music – Adrian Leverkühn
On Klonsky on Blake
Jacob de Haan’s “The Book of Urizen”
Blakespotting: Enitharmon’s hair
Failed Eternity
New Ofili show at Tate Britain
Jez Butterworth’s Sons of Albion
Mike Carey’s Unwritten Blake
Hardcase Crime – John Blake’s lost innocence
L. A. Woman, A City Yet a Woman: Blake, Jim Morrison, and Prophecy
VALA and Global Blake
this work im doin i dont kno what it is
Sweet Roaming: William Blake and the Fugs

Reviews

Reviews of books, music, films and more

William Blake – Visionary
Jez Butterworth’s Sons of Albion
Phaze Theory: Live at Balabam
James Rovira – Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety
Review: Daniel Kidane – Songs of Illumination
Review: Johanna Glaza – Albion
Blake’s Margins
Review: Rock and Romanticism, edited by James Rovira
Review: William Blake’s Mystic Map of London
Review: Fake Blakes
Review: Music roundup for early 2019
William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion – review
Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly (ed.) — Queer Blake
Mei-Ying Sung: William Blake and the Art of Engraving
Review: William Blake and the Myth of America

Spotlight

Blake and Music:
 
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Articles on Blake's poems set to music
and songs inspired by his art.

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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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