Tag: Inspiration

In the Songs of Experience, William Blake contrasted the ‘soft deceitful wiles’ of enmity and jealousy (A Poison Tree), and the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ constraining the … Read more

  Stephen Chambers describes his paintings after William Blake as ‘reverential love letters’ to an artist who was the ‘gate-master of the misfits’ club’. While … Read more

In chapter 4 of Poesia e magia, Seppilli summarised her findings, and outlined the remaining hypotheses she goes on to analyse in the second half … Read more

Luigi Schiavonetti, Portrait of William Blake, after Thomas Phillips, 1808, etching.   Inscription: ‘Painted by T. Phillips R. A. / Engraved by L Schiavonetti V … Read more