Tag: William Blake

Thank you Luisa Calè for including Poetry & Magic in your review of Blake exhibitions during 2023 in the Summer 2024 issue of Blake Quarterly!

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

John Hamilton Mortimer, Caliban from Twelve Characters from Shakespeare, 1775, etching.   Inscription: CALIBAN.  Do not torment me prithee / I’ll bring my wood home … Read more

Remember based on an interview with Ana Maria Pacheco Something curious happened during the making of Remember: the piece became more diffuse as the artist … Read more

Johann Friedrich Greuter, Portrait of Giambattista Marino, after Simon Vouet, 1630-40, engraving.   Inscription: Ioannes Baptista Marinus Eques/ Simon Vouet pinx. / Fed. Greuter incid. … Read more

William Blake, Portrait of William Cowper, after George Romney, 1802, engraving.   Inscription: ‘From a Portrait in Crayons Drawn from the Life by Romney in … 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