If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language ...
Huntington Art Collections William Blake's Albion Rose, circa 1793 Blake believed we could all work on our imaginations, just like our abs or biceps, and aspire to joining him in "eternity".
On 24th November 1957 a larger than life size bronze bust to the poet, painter and engraver William Blake was unveiled in Poets' Corner ... and came to the Abbey to sketch many of the royal tombs and ...