• The first was a stone that reads "Near by lie the remains of the poet-painter William Blake 1757–1827 and his wife Catherine Sophia 1762–1831".
  • William Blake, ‘The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea’, 1805. Where does genius end and madness begin? Where does vision decay into delusion?
  • It had numerous inspirations in its lineage, based on different cultures, traditions, and art forms from all across the world. Celebrating William Blake.
  • William Blake died on August 12, 1827, and was buried in a ground for dissenters. On the day of his death, he still worked on his Dante illustrations.
  • William Blake was a man of extraordinary talent whose prolific career spanned poetry, painting, printmaking, and more.
  • alt By turns whimsical and apocalyptic, brilliant and yet somehow simple, British poet William Blake (1757-1827) expanded the boundaries of poetry both with...
  • William Blake began writing at an early age and claimed to have had his first vision, of a tree full of angels, at age 10.
  • Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men.
  • William Blake was born in Soho, London, to James, a garment manufacturer, and his wife Catherine Wright Armitage, on November 28, 1757.