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Jason Whittaker

A comprehensive guide to Blake's life and his written and artistic works

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The Journal of The Blake Society

A magazine with articles, poems, stories and new art inspired by Blake

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A collection of videos about William Blake

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Global Blake: In Conversation with Mark Lussier

12 Mar, 23

Jodie Marley discusses George William Russell and his engagement with the mystic reception of William Blake.

Global Blake: In Conversation with Jodie Marley

5 Feb, 23

Jodie Marley discusses George William Russell and his engagement with the mystic reception of William Blake.

Global Blake: In Conversation with Franca Bellarsi

5 Feb, 23

Franca Bellarsi discusses the emerging sphere of ecocriticism and the Beats, via the work of Allen Ginsberg and William Blake.

Blake Bites: The poetic form of Holy Thursday (Innocence)

14 Jan, 23

Blake's unusual use of line lengths in his poem ‘Holy Thursday’ has an important effect on our reading of the poem.

Blake Bites: What is meant by human form in ‘The Divine Image’?

14 Jan, 23

Blake’s poetry in Songs of Innocence often appears to use conventional Christian motifs, but these are much more radical than they first appear.

A Blakean Year: 2022

31 Dec, 22

As we emerged out of lockdowns in 2022, so the year turned out to be an active one for Blake in the arts.

Infant Joy: The early life of William Blake

28 Nov, 22

William Blake was born on this day in Soho, London in 1757. This excerpt from Divine Images gives an account of his early life.

A Golden String: Susheela Raman and Guests

17 Nov, 22

Some videos from a new project I am involved with Susheela Raman and Sam Mills.

“And all must love the human form”: Empire, London, and Islam in S.F. Said’s Tyger

23 Oct, 22

While long influenced by William Blake, S.F. Said’s latest novel is his most Blakean yet.

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Leslie Wilber presents an extraordinary visual response to Blake's mythology of the Four Zoas.

A Moving Illustration of William Blake’s Mythology

Opposition,’ says William Blake, ‘is true friendship’. So opens the Foreword to Defence of the Devil by Eugene Halliday.

- Hephzibah Yohannan explores the Blakean writings of Eugene Halliday

For some commentators, it is this engagement with Blake which leads Maud into her deep obsession, but in truth Maud doesn't really understand Blake at all.

- Jason Whittaker, Visions of Saint Maud