Blake 2.0

Robert Essick’s and Mark Crosby’s Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work (with an essay by Robert Wark: Huntington Library, 2012) has just been published by the Huntington Library. This impressive edition of the beginning of Blake’s rendition of the book of Genesis is aptly titled, as it is Blake’s last attempt at a work combining

What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song Or wisdom for a dance in the street?No it is bought with the price Of all a man hasSimilar Posts: Zoapod 14: Blake’s Poems – The Garden of Love and The Sick Rose Zoapod 12: Blake’s Poems – The Lamb and The

Have not the mouse & frog eyes & ears & sense of touch? Yet are their habitations & their pursuits as different as their forms & their joys.Similar Posts: Newton – Blake – Paolozzi Mark Linkous – Sparklehorse this work im doin i dont kno what it is

Blake quote of the day; There are States in which all Visionary Men are accounted MadSimilar Posts: New titles on Blake for 2010 The Joy of Revolution The Doors – Break on Through

Been away for a while, so finally, a Blake quote of the day: The soul of sweet delight can never be defil’d.Similar Posts: Mark Linkous – Sparklehorse William Blake and film How Much Did Jim Morrison Know about William Blake?

This is the first in a series of short updates that feature links to recent stories, lectures, news, and other mentions of William Blake on the web. David Fallon gives a Blake lecture on Oxford University’s podcasts. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts just completed an exhibition on Blake. Steve Silberman uses Blake’s work to

Blake quote of the day: the Daughters of Memory shall become the Daughters of Inspiration.Similar Posts: Samuel Palmer and the Valley of Vision New editions of Visions of the Daughters of Albion Blakean Summer Shows

Blake quote of the day: Empire is no more! and now the lion & wolf shall cease.Similar Posts: David Dabydeen’s Slave Song Blakespotting: Death metal Blake Opposition is True Friendship: Christopher Hitchens and William Blake

Blake quote of the day: As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.Similar Posts: A Vindication of the Daughters of Albion – Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft Blakean Trees in Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist (2009) Zoapod 7: Dreams Unlimited – J. G.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find This Moment & it multiply.Similar Posts: Blakespotting: Outcasts and William Blake’s “The Tyger” David Dabydeen’s Slave Song Everyday Blake

Blake quote of the day: The Classics, it is the Classics! & not Goths nor Monks, that Desolate Europe with Wars.Similar Posts: Zoapod 2: Tavener, Thelema and the Tyger The Naked Tea Party Fernand Péna’s Ode to William Blake

Qotd: I have the happiness of seeing the Divine countenance in such men as Cowper and Milton more distinctly than in any prince or hero.Similar Posts: Milton published on Blake Archive Anniversary of Blake’s Death and Blake Society Meeting Zoapod 15 – The Devil’s Party: Blake’s Marriage and Milton

Blake quote of the day: Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ’d.Similar Posts: Watercolour at Tate Britain Blakespotting: Death metal Blake Ten Blakean novels

Apologies for the break – caught up in stuff over the Christmas period. Need to get back onto Blake in the new year, so belated happy 2012!Similar Posts: Blakespotting: William Blake and Spooks Anniversary of Blake’s Death and Blake Society Meeting On Blakes we want and Blakes we forgot…

MT @ninacaplan: Tourists in Bunhill Cemetery staring in wonder at a squirrel. Guys: it’s a rat with a tail. We’ve got William Blake in here!Similar Posts: Anniversary of Blake’s Death and Blake Society Meeting Jack Shepherd – In Lambeth part 1 Jack Shepherd – In Lambeth part 2

New article on the influence of William Blake on Christopher Hitchens is up at Zoamorphosos: http://t.co/zrlweFLHSimilar Posts: Opposition is True Friendship: Christopher Hitchens and William Blake Studies on Blake’s reception Newsletter

Deepak Chopra once argued that Christopher Hitchens, one of the founders of the New Atheist movement, “dismisses every spiritual person out of hand, which means that he dismisses William Blake in the same breath that he dismisses Bible belt preachers.” Hitchens died yesterday at the age of 62 after a battle with esophageal cancer.

Th modest Rose puts forth a thorn Th humble sheep a threatning horn Th Lily white shall love delight No thorn no threat stain beauty brightSimilar Posts: Benjamin Britten – O Rose, Thou Art Sick Love’s Secret Domain Zoapod 14: Blake’s Poems – The Garden of Love and The Sick Rose

The God of this world rag’d in vain: He bound old Satan in His chain, And, bursting forth, His furious ire Became a chariot of fire.Similar Posts: Blakespotting: Enitharmon’s hair Ten things you should know about Jerusalem The Last of England: Jarman’s Blakean vision

Truly Satan thou art but a Dunce & dost not know the Garment from the Man Every Harlot was a Virgin once Nor canst thou change Kate into NanSimilar Posts: Everlasting Gospel? Philip Pullman, Jesus and Christ Mike Westbrook – The Human Abstract Ten things you should know about Jerusalem