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Legacy. The Fly was set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle Songs and Proverbs of William Blake. It appears also in the song London on the 1987 Tangerine Dream album Tyger which is inspired by poetry of Blake. John Vanderslice adapted this poem into the song "If I Live or If I Die" on his 2001 album Time Travel Is ...
The Ghost of a Flea is a miniature painting by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake, held in the Tate Gallery, London. Measuring only 8.42 by 6.3 inches (21.4 by 16.0 centimetres), it is executed in a tempera mixture with gold, on a mahogany -type tropical hardwood panel. [1] It was completed between 1819 and 1820, as part of ...
Songs of Experience. Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between ...
The contrast in colouration with the above copy L demonstrates the uniqueness and variation between Blake's different printings. This copy is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] " The Human Abstract " is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. [2]
The title page of the book, 1790, copy D, held by the Library of Congress [1]. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake.It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.
William Blake. " And did those feet in ancient time " is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in Two Books, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date of 1804 on the title page is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808. [1]
Poetical Sketches. Poetical Sketches is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777. Forty copies were printed in 1783 with the help of Blake's friends, the artist John Flaxman and the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, at the request of his wife Harriet Mathew. The book was never published for the ...
Title page of America a Prophecy, copy A (printed 1793), collection the Morgan Library. America a Prophecy is a 1793 prophetic book by the English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blake's Continental prophecies. [ 1 ]