William Blake was English Romantic artist, draftsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet. He possessed visionary powers and in art as in life was an individualist who made a standard of nonconformity. Blake had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with a variety of techniques[...]

The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing Songs of Innocence in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add Songs [...]

Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake's affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake's intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake's gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake's Gothic conve[...]

The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake's creative and spiritual life
- Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake's mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation
- Shows Blake had access to kabbalis[...]

Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement s five most famous poets William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleri[...]

The Art of Fine Gifts: William Blake was a key figure in the Romantic Movement, thanks not only to his poetry but also his paintings. Although Blake produced a great amount of works during his lifetime it was not until after his death that his work and political views became prolific. This calendar [...]

"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art. This unique edition of the work allows Blake to [...]