One day in 1801, when William Blake ... poet and musician, who experienced beatific visions throughout his 69 years on Earth, wasn't wandering lonely as a cloud, like some of his Romantic peers.

William Blake is today exal­ted as one of the greatest ... to his art that gave Kris Kristofferson – who studied the Romantic poets at Oxford – the courage to turn his back on a military ...

On 24th November 1957 a larger than life size bronze bust to the poet, painter and engraver William Blake was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It is fixed to a pillar and is by the ...