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Susan Blake was born in Dublin in 1960 and was the second child and eldest of three daughters of Sean and Frances Blake. She ...
Seamus Heaney’s collection North turns 50 next month, but does it still have relevance for today’s readers and critics? In ...
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Though Hoare’s book takes up the events of Blake’s life—including his marriage and his lack of commercial success—it is not ...
The idea may come as a shock to those who sing Blake’s words to what has become England’s alternative national anthem, Jerusalem. But evidence unearthed for my new book, William Blake and the ...
poetry, music, film and visual arts especially animation. Anything where the imagination is paramount.” So, it is no surprise that William Blake is the muse and medium for a unique project ...
The former Mayfair home of poet and artist William Blake could be turned into a "national cultural centre" under new plans. Blake lived in two rooms at 17 Molton Street for 17 years, creating some ...
To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry ... Sylvia ...
Forget Spotify Unwrapped – the most eagerly anticipated reveal in literary circles at the end of this year was the announcement of what books NSW ... and Prejudice, William Blake and Yeats.
This etching of a small face may be one of William ... young William Blake. The British writer and artist is most famous for Songs of Innocence and Experience, a collection of poetry full of ...
But before his poetry career took off, Blake had worked as an apprentice to engraver James Basire. Mr Basire made pictorial prints - one of the main ways to print illustrated books at the time.