William Blake | The Traveller in the Evening

The Fall and William Blake: Before the Moon Falls

by Admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Music, Poetry, Video, William Blake | 0

The Fall’s Before the Moon Falls, W.B., Jerusalem and creating a system of your own

Blake’s Annihilation by the Eye of Ra: On Snakes, Seraphim and the Solar YHWH

by Andy Wilson | Mar 13, 2021 | Esoteric, Essay, William Blake | 0

What did Blake meantby saying that when he looked at the sun he saw a choir of angels singing ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’, and how does it relate to his depiction of apocalypse.

Blade Runner’s Fallen Angels

by Andy Wilson | Feb 10, 2021 | Essay, Film, Video, William Blake | 0

The film Blade Runner is hugely successful, but what does it mean? As the makers hint, the key is to watch it through the eyes of William Blake and his mythology of liberation.

Blake and the Mad Crew: The Ranters and the Historians

by Andy Wilson | Jan 31, 2021 | Essay, History / Politics, William Blake | 0

While A L Morton thought Blake may have read the work of the Ranter, Abiezer Coppe, modern historians say there is no evidence of Blake being familiar with Ranter texts. How much do Blake’s ideas overlap with The Ranters? I look at the Justification of the Mad Crew (1650) to compare.

William Blake as a Revolutionary Poet

by Andy Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | History / Politics, William Blake | 0

Few could deny that William Blake supported the radical politics of his time, yet revolutionary ideas were not an adjunct to his visionary genius, but the living heart of it as a poet.

Serge Arnoux’s Mirror of Blake

by Andy Wilson | Jan 4, 2021 | Essay, Image, Surrealism, William Blake | 0

An analysis of the recently discovered engravings by Serge Arnoux illustrating William Blake’s ‘Proverbs of Hell’, with a discussion of surrealism and Blake, and the impact of Moravianism on Blake’s idea of faith, sexuality, freedom and religion.

Milton’s L’Allegro on Blake’s Day

by Admin | Nov 28, 2020 | Image, Poetry, William Blake | 0

To celebrate Blake’s birthday, here is one of his illustrations for Milton’s L’Allegro, along with the poem itself, which seems suited to the mood fo the day.

The Heptones: Mystery Babylon

by Andy Wilson | Oct 30, 2020 | Music, Poem | 0

Thy purpose & the purpose of thy Priests & of thy Churches
Is to impress on men the fear of death; to teach
Trembling & fear, terror, constriction: abject selfishness.
Mine is to teach Men to despise death & to go on
In fearless majesty annihilating Self, laughing to scorn
Thy Laws & terrors

The Tyger and Violence

by Andy Wilson | Oct 14, 2020 | History / Politics, Poem, Poetry, William Blake | 0

The Tyger is potentially the Led Zeppelin of Blake poems — brash, bombastic and unnervingly successful. It is supposedly the most anthologised poem in the English language — stadium poetry, if you like. Your children will probably come across it at school. Along with the Parry’s version of Jerusalem, this is the Blake that people know.

Iain Sinclair: Blake’s Radicalism

by Admin | Oct 12, 2020 | History / Politics, Video, William Blake | 0

Iain Sinclair explores the historical background to William Blake’s radical writings. Filmed on the South Bank of the River Thames, Vauxhall, London.

Mike Pence, Ecological Disaster, and Blake’s The Fly

by Andy Wilson | Oct 9, 2020 | History / Politics, Poem, Poetry, William Blake | 0

At the televised Vice-Presidential debate last week with Kamala Harris, Mike Pence spectacularly ignored the fly that came to rest very publicly on his head. This act of wilful ignorance crowned Pence’s role at the side of Donald Trump as ‘the man who pretended not to notice‘.