William Blake Features

Life’s a Long Song: Night Draws in for the Traveller

Thro evening shades I haste away To close the Labours of my Day William Blake, The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (1793) This post concerns an…

5 hrs ago • Andy Wilson

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion

Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…

Jun 13, 2025 • Andy Wilson

Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies

Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…

Apr 23, 2025 • Brian Collier

Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job

Blake's Job has long been recognised as a hymn to an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of of acceptance of the role of…

Jun 24, 2024 • Andy Wilson

William Blake: England's Radical Prophet and Visionary

Watch now (53 mins) | An introduction to Blake given by Andy Wilson at St Luke’s Community Centre, Islington, London, on 24th Nov 2021, for the…

May 18, 2024 • Andy Wilson

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William Blake's Universe: Blake at the Fitzwilliam

In this new exhibition, Blake is shown alongside Europeans who also turned to spirituality in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.

Mar 8, 2024 • Andy Wilson

Jerusalem's Peeping Tiger

Ever had the feeling you are being watched?

Jul 24, 2023 • Andy Wilson

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

Some thoughts on what Blake meant by saying that when he looked at the sun he saw a choir of angels singing ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’, and how it relates to…

Mar 13, 2021 • Andy Wilson

Blake and the Mad Crew: Ranters and Historians

They say that the past is the slave of the present, and historians see in it mainly the projections of their private obsessions. There is no way around…

Jan 21, 2021 • Andy Wilson

William Blake as a Revolutionary Poet

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…

Jan 20, 2021 • Andy Wilson

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