Visionary: How William Blake Changed the World
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Imagination and the pregnant mind in William Blake's cosmogony
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his early prophetic works, William Blake presents his own creation myth, which reinterprets Genesis and critically examines contemporary medical di...
A Guide to William Blake's The Four Zoas
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Begun some time around 1797, Vala or The Four Zoas is William Blake's great unfinished masterpiece, an attempt to provide a complete mythology of Blak...
Mirror Writing and Designing in William Blake's Illuminated Books
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1789, Blake developed the relief etching technique which he described as "a method of Printing which combines the Painter and the Poet," allowing h...
William Blake and New Age Music
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blake famously begins Milton: A Poem with the call to "Rouze up, O Young Men of the New Age!" That phrase has been connected to the "New Age" movement...
William Blake, Gregory Bateson and David Lynch: Audiovisual Approaches to Blake Scholarship
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Smith discusses parts of his book, Bateson's Alphabet: The ABCs of Gregory Bateson's Ecology of Mind. Bateson began his academic career as an an...
Bob Dylan and William Blake
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blakean song titles such as 'Gates of Eden' (1965) and 'Every Grain of Sand' (1981) have ensured that Blake's influence on Dylan has long been taken f...
Yeats, Blake and Mysticism
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Visionary, Jason Whittaker is joined by the scholar Jodie Marley, whose work includes a study of W. B. Yeats's reception of Blake i...
Barry Miles on Allen Ginsberg's Blake Recordings
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Biographer of the Beats and co-founder of the counter-culture newspaper, International Times, Barry Miles joins Camila Oliveira in conversation about ...
Blakean Spirituals: William Blake, Bob Dylan, and Race
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Keery and Steve Clark begin with a discussion of the 'song' performed by 'Tambourine Man', which is often regarded as an invitation to Blakean '...
William Blake and the Surrealists
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With its exploration of the unconscious via the dreamscapes of artists such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and Salvador Dali, and a rejection of the kind o...
William Blake's Visionary Physics
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Whitson explores the ways in which Donald Ault and Bruno Latour can provide us with insights into Blake's experiments in visionary physics. This...
William Blake's Visions
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blake scholar David Worrall discusses his latest book, William Blake's Visions, which explores the ways in which what Blake referred to as his visions...
William Blake at BARS 2024
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Choe is joined by other Blake scholars - Hannah McAuliffe, Jodie Marley, Jake Elliott and Annise rogers - to discuss the range of talks and pap...
Dark Angels: William Blake and Ridley Scott
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
William Blake has long been one of the many influences on the style and visuals of director Ridley Scott, most notably in his 2012 Alien: Prometheus, ...
William Blake's Guide on How to be a Visionary
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When most people think of William Blake, one of the first words they use is visionary. In this podcast, Jason Whittaker explores what that means in re...
The Left Hand Path: William Blake, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
William Blake has been claimed by a number of esoteric and even occult thinkers and practitioners. At the end of his life, he was as much known for hi...
Mapping Hell: Alasdair Gray and William Blake
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Often hailed as "the Scottish William Blake", Alasdair Gray's love of both the graphic arts and written word does indeed owe much to his admiration fo...
William Blake's Samson - Milton, the Bible and Orc
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Annise Rogers looks at the development of the figure of Samson in Blake's early collection, Poetical Sketches, exploring the connecti...
There's Lots of Blake in Finnegans Wake: James Joyce's Adaptation of Jerusalem
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Critics have long noted the influence of William Blake on James Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake. What has been understudied, however, is the way ...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Billy Bragg on William Blake
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Bragg in conversation with Jason Whittaker on the influence of Blake on his life, music and politics, looking also at questions of the hymn Jeru...
Viral Blake - how Blake's Auguries of Innocence spread across media
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mike Goode considers the ways in which William Blake's famous invocation, "To see a world in a grain of sand" has become a viral meme...
William Blake's The First Book of Urizen
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Visionary: How William Blake changed the world, Jason Whittaker is joined by Sharon Choe, Annise Rogers, and Hannah McAuliffe to di...
William Blake and Angela Carter
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Visionary: How William Blake changed the world, Jason Whittaker considers the ways in which Blake influenced the writer Angela Cart...
William Blake and J.G. Ballard
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Visionary: How William Blake changed the world, Jason Whittaker considers the ways in which the SF author J.G. Ballard rewrote Blak...
William Blake's Universe at the Fitzwilliam Museum
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Visionary: How William Blake Changed the World, Jason Whittaker, Sharon Choe and Annise Rogers review the exhibition William Blake'...
Jerusalem: From Blake to Parry
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Visionary: How William Blake Changed the World, traces the history of his famous poem beginning with the lines "And did those feet", b...
Blake and Tolkien's Mythmaking
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In their various ways, William Blake and J. R. R. Tolkien are two of the most important creators of imaginary worlds in literary history, having inspi...
William Blake and the Idea of the Body
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Hannah McAuliffe, Jon Mee, and Sharon Choe (Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York) discuss William Blake's changi...