William Blake

“The mind-forged manacles I hear.”

The life

An engraver and visionary who saw angels in trees and wrote, printed and coloured his own books. Contemporaries thought him mad; he thought them asleep.

He fused poetry and visual art, and made the city a subject of prophetic anger.

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The Tyger

William Blake · 1794

Six burning questions about who could possibly build something so fierce.

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London

William Blake · 1794

A city where every institution is a lock, and every face is a record of it.

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