The Morning Comes (1793-1821), by William Blake. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. William Blake’s Universe, the new (free) exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, is a celebration of work ...

Through Nov. 30. Visit the museum’s website for hours and more information. The poem is famous, so we think we know it. But really, we only recognize the first stanza: “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / ...

My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

In 1966, I arrived at college to discover that William Blake had become the patron saint of a revolution. Students in those days confused the poet Blake with certain drawings he had made of leonine ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art. By Walker Mimms Reporting from ...