William Blake

For the work of a band whose name stems from a dream in which a member exchanged pleasantries with the 18th century poet William Blake, the lyrics are the only real disappointment on "Souvenir". Fueled by gas fumes, cheap whiskey, and pretty...

In this article: The Blakes, Itunes, Hormone, Spin magazine, and MySpace

...brief discussions of the context behind each work. The images, reproduced in high quality and in full color, include works by William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvador Dali, as well as Muslim artists from the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal...

In this article: Muhammad, Democracy, Yale University, Duke University, Theo van Gogh, Islam, Hamilton College, and Behzti

...school I was fascinated with the power of imagination and emotions, the transfiguring power of that combination, that whole William Blake thing of it being able to change the world around you. " As well as terrifying inter-war Italians,...

In this article: Luigi Pirandello, Jack Shepherd, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Rupert Goold, Cardiff, New Theatre, and Waiting for Godot

...Craythorne steals a book. He can't read, but the pictures in the book intrigue him - we learn later that it's the poems of William Blake, and a sign that Arthur is struggling towards some kind of spiritual awakening. It is interrupted by...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend, First World War, and Cancer

...and influential British portrait photographer of the last three decades', claims to have been inspired by the likes of William Blake and Edward Burne-Jones. He has likened his portrait of the 2012 director of design and regeneration,...

In this article: London, Denise Lewis, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 2012 Olympics, and Waste

...overture that had its premiere on Saturday with a repeat performance on Sunday. Frazin's starting point was his own setting of William Blake's "The Tyger'' (given a rhapsodic reading by mezzo-soprano Krista Rivers and pianist Linda...

In this article: Robert Schumann, Boston Classical Orchestra, Howard Frazin, Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4, and In the Forests of the Night

...them letters, the inmate has posted a photo of himself young, smiling and clean-shaven. In his ad, Montour quotes the poet William Blake and talks about how his time behind bars has led to self-examination. "I continue to struggle with...

In this article: Colorado Springs, Parole, Barter, Attorney General, and WriteAPrisoner.com

...wild things are Jewish relatives." Over a long career, Sendak's work has reflected the influences of many artists and writers - William Blake, Marc Chagall, Winslow Homer, to name a few. In "Where the Wild Things Are," his use of...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Gregory Maguire, Where the Wild Things Are, Where the Wild Things Are, Dog, and Marc Chagall

...readers choosing from 30 poets. The eventual top 10 was: T.S. Eliot, John Donne, Benjamin Zephaniah, Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, John Betjeman, John Keats and Dylan Thomas. There was no place in the...

In this article: T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, First World War, Benjamin Zephaniah, John Donne, Nobel Prize for Literature, Philip Larkin, and William Wordsworth

He found nothing by Potter, but was thrilled nevertheless to discover a slew of holdings by some of his other heroes, including William Blake and Herman Melville. Indeed, one of the first objects you encounter after entering the Rosenbach is...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Philadelphia, Maxfield Parrish, Beatrix Potter, Harry Potter, Herman Melville, Where the Wild Things Are, and Cheshire Cat