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Life and works of English poet William Blake, also an artist, mystic, and engraver known for illuminated printing to illustrate his poems.

In Blake's collections "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," two different versions of the poem convey a message of cruelty and pain brought on by experience.

A set of eight questions for reading groups to use when discussing the novel Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier.

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier is a novel about a country family that moves to London and finds themselves neighbors to William Blake.

On popular demand for the explanation of the famous poem by William Blake, here comes 'The Tyger'.

The worlds created by Philip Pullman owe a great debt of inspiration to the works of William Blake; specifically, his alliance to The Gnostic Myth.

How can an artist "grow" in a culture he may despise, or at least feel at odds with? Two poets and a painter from different worlds had similar answers.

'London' is a viciously provocative poem that urges its readership to release themselves from the "mind-forg'd manacles" that are strangling the city.

This compact poem symbolically presents a dichotomy between selfish and unselfish love.

This brief poem encapsulates the fall that is detailed in the 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' with a multi-faceted symbolic premise.

William Blake's "A Poison Tree" makes a didactic but unworkable statement about the efficacy of talking out one's difficulties with enemies.

Review of the DVD of David Axelrod's performance at the Royal Festival Hall in 2005

David Axelrod's first albums for Capitol drew inspiration from William Blake and helped create the sound of modern day hip hop

Though shunned and isolated in his own time, today he is celebrated as a revolutionary and mystic with a strong sense of personal vision.

Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience discuss the contraries of the soul; freedom and restriction as well as Blake's creation of the character 'Urizen.'

Why should anyone in the 21st century be interested in a 19th-century English journalist and thinker who was dismissed as by T.S. Eliot as tasteless?

The ancient shamanic teachings of Ka-Ta-See may be more relevant today than they have ever been.

For their third release the Electric Prunes were partnered with hit producer David Axelrod to create one of the most bizarre pop concepts of the sixties- Mass in F Minor