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But, as is often the case, his political activity was twofold: in the street and in the studio, where as part of a collective called Friends of William Blake he designed a free New York map for protesters, pinpointing convention events, delegates' hotels and public toilets. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Whose dark materials? Dec 2, 2007
It s true that the poems of John Milton and William Blake, not to mention a dose of particle physics, are key elements in Pullman s vision. But he only takes what he needs for the flavor of his story. (Boston Globe)
An everyman's mystic Nov 28, 2007
Detail from William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar, courtesy of Tate Britain ... From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts ... William Blake was a bit of a nutter, to employ the vernacular of a recent prime minister. (BBC News -- UK)
The original political vision: sex, art and transformation Nov 28, 2007
Dissent and emancipation were holy for William Blake ... It is not a meaning of the word that Britain's greatest revolutionary poet would have recognised; William Blake, born 250 years ago today, had what George Bush Sr called "the vision thing" in the way other people have headaches or fits of laughter. (Guardian Unlimited)
Text as illustration Nov 17, 2007
Gray takes us back to the renaissance tradition (revived by one of his heroes, William Blake) of opening the reader's route into a text through an allegorical illustration. Ambitious works - the King James Bible, Ben Jonson's writings, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - laid out their topics in emblematic form. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A castle in the air in London Nov 16, 2007
After they had their fourth child, Lucy Musgrave and Zad Rogers realized they had outgrown their four-bedroom, 1,100-square-foot apartment in a central London high-rise. They ended up building a two-story glass cube atop a friend's apartment. (International Herald Tribune)
Scientists see early universe in grains of sand Nov 15, 2007
British poet William Blake once wrote that a world was contained in a grain of sand. Physicists have done one better, finding a surprising link between streams of flowing sand grains and the birth of the universe. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Remembering Blake, cleansing doors Nov 15, 2007
Instead, found in the poem "The Grey Monk," the quotation is from Englishman William Blake, who died 180 years ago. Nov. 28 marks the celebrated poet's 250th birthday, and a number of creative individuals are joining together to commemorate his life through a series of events for the community. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Donors help National Gallery buy third Mueck sculpture Nov 15, 2007
Eight recently discovered watercolours by British Romantic poet and artist William Blake are being shown publicly for the first time by Tate Britain in London. Steven Spielberg will add the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Award to his collection of lifetime achievement honours. (CBC Montreal)
Let kids be kids again Nov 15, 2007
INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK. For long the loss of childhood has been the synonym for loss of innocence. (India Times, India)
Alberta is 6-0 at mixed curling nationals Nov 13, 2007
Eight recently discovered watercolours by British Romantic poet and artist William Blake are being shown publicly for the first time by Tate Britain in London. Canada's largest software company, Cognos Inc., said Monday it has agreed to a $5-billion US friendly takeover by IBM.. (CBC News)
Anger & Resistance Nov 13, 2007
SACRED SPACE: Anger & Resistance-Editorial-Opinion-The Times of India. SACRED SPACE: Anger & Resistance13 Nov 2007, 0024 hrs IST. (India Times, India)
Landscape of tumult Nov 10, 2007
"All of which contributes to a changing rape of the landscape. And so you get the neo-romantic tradition that looks back to Samuel Palmer and William Blake as a nostalgic reverie for the bucolic wonders of the British landscape. On one side is a lament for a type of landscape that is passing; on the other is a celebration for pockets of beauty that have been saved from destruction.". The neo-romantics here represented by John Piper, Keith Vaughan and John Minton look more at the threat imposed... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Paine's 'Rights Of Man' Nov 10, 2007
Apparently warned by William Blake that the English government was about to arrest him for sedition, Paine fled to France, where he was elected to the revolutionary legislature. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story Oct 30, 2007
Just six short years ago Driscoll, reflecting on the time-honored possession, said he had become very attached to the clock and was "constantly discovering new facets of its personality."When the clock misbehaves, like striking erratically in the deep of the night, I get the calls from irate citizens," he said. Driscoll, who also long served on the board of the Westerly Public Library and as head of the Watch Hill Dire District s Parks Commission, among other community service roles, passed away... (Westerly Sun, RI)
The bell tolls for Westerly Oct 30, 2007
The bell is a product of William Blake & Co. of Boston and weighs about 1500 pounds. At the time it was installed in 1882 it was the heaviest bell in the area, Algiere noted. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Willilam Blakes A Poison Tree Oct 27, 2007
William Blake's "A Poison Tree" makes a didactic but unworkable statement about the efficacy of talking out one's difficulties with enemies. From his Songs of Experience, William Blake s consists of four quatrains, each with the rime-scheme, AABB. As with most of Blake s , A Poison Tree has its charm, despite its problematic use of metaphor. (Suite101.com)
O'Brien's blog Oct 26, 2007
Who's the Empire now. The entry titled "Who's the Empire now? And no K.J. for Coco," and any of the comments about it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
The Rosenbach and The Mutter: A Perfect Pair Oct 19, 2007
-- James Joyce's manuscript of Ulysses -- Paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and William Blake. -- Lewis Carroll's rarest photographs, books and letters. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Births: William Blake Holcombe Oct 18, 2007 The Literary Beauty of Profit Season Oct 8, 2007 Chainsaw massacre Sep 25, 2007 GUEST VIEW: A romantic proposal for better self-articulation Sep 23, 2007 Retracing 'War' Sep 20, 2007 Bringing gambling out of the shadows Sep 20, 2007 UNH professor named U.S. Poet Laureate Sep 14, 2007 UK explores model to revive community life Sep 12, 2007 Britain plans new wave of home building Sep 11, 2007 Jug Suraiya: Status Co Sep 2, 2007 more reader opinions Sep 1, 2007 Antenna dispute still up in air Aug 25, 2007 Sunflowers History and Culture Aug 19, 2007 'What ho, Giotto!' Aug 11, 2007 Harry Potter and the weird academic theories Aug 2, 2007 British Invasion: A massive gift of English paintings adds a new dimension to the Clark Jul 28, 2007 What CEO's book collections say about them Jul 21, 2007 Pete Doherty: The Last Libertine Jul 12, 2007 Q&A: curriculum reform Jul 12, 2007 Paul Nash and Yves Tanguy Jul 9, 2007 William Blake Jul 8, 2007 Manchester Artists United Jul 4, 2007 Made in China Jun 24, 2007 Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years Jun 23, 2007 WILLIAM BLAKE 1757 1827 Jun 17, 2007 Read more ... Jun 17, 2007 Surf's Up *** Jun 8, 2007 Time to follow the rules, America Jun 3, 2007 READERS WRITE: JIMMY CARTER'S COMMENTS May 22, 2007 Bethany results May 11, 2007 Community calendar May 5, 2007 The Underticket - Bethany, Democrat May 4, 2007 Prince Harry shouldn't go to Iraq May 3, 2007 From punk poet to cover girl May 1, 2007 Distinguished teaching awards announced UCB, Apr. 24 Apr 25, 2007 In Praise of Difficult Poetry: Apr 24, 2007 Design takes over, a fly swatter at a time Apr 23, 2007 Innocence, experience, and history make a bland mix in 'Burning Bright' Apr 20, 2007 Human stains Apr 20, 2007 'Bright' is merely a dim diversion Apr 16, 2007 It's time to sing about spring Apr 15, 2007 Romantic poetry will never rock the house Apr 12, 2007 What happens if Virgin Islands' coral reefs disappear? Apr 11, 2007 Songs of experience Apr 7, 2007 Disposable Workers Apr 6, 2007 Concept of Jacobs Ladder Mar 31, 2007 The fatal flaw Mar 31, 2007 Page turners: 'Burning Bright' Mar 30, 2007 The real stars of these books Mar 29, 2007 Soundbytes: Van Morrison Chases American -- Not Irish -- Musical Muse Mar 22, 2007 'Burning' fails to ignite any literary heat Mar 20, 2007 What the critics said about The Entertainer Mar 11, 2007 The wonderful world of Disney's dark inspirations Mar 11, 2007 U.S. would benefit from another Cold War Mar 9, 2007 The invisible worm Mar 3, 2007 Wild observations: A world in a grain of sand Feb 22, 2007 Teachers fight back over classics Feb 17, 2007 The bigger picture Feb 17, 2007 Great Poems About Sex: Feb 14, 2007 A beautiful mind Feb 11, 2007 - David McKie Feb 8, 2007 Tedder family has deep Robeson County roots Feb 6, 2007 OSHA cites town on two violations for town hall Feb 1, 2007 Amity High principal to retire in June Jan 31, 2007 Bethany and Woodbridge election slates announced Jan 31, 2007
William Blake Holcombe was born on Oct. 1 at Sutter Coast Hospital. He weighed 7 lbs. (Daily Triplicate)
London in the Rain Oct 17, 2007
William Blake was baptised here in 1757 and Leopold Stokowski was choirmaster from 1902 until 1905 when he left for a similar position in New York. There is a full programme of lectures, concerts and events. (Suite101.com)
There are romantic insights into the Zen of something or other, plus a little bit about other stuff (with apologies to William Blake, who fortunately cannot sue). Tiger, tiger, burning bright, Providing sustainable energy at competitive prices into the night Oh muse. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
As William Blake recognised in a letter he wrote in 1799, "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.". A selection of your comments appears below. (BBC News -- UK)
If William Blake is its founder, Romanticism may go back to 1760. If William Wordsworth is the true founder, Blake is a precursor, and the normal inception date is given as 1800. (Winona Daily News, MN)
" He, co-director Lynn Novick and a team of researchers and technicians did it battle by battle, bootprint by bootprint, tremor by tremor back on the home front, in a remarkable fusion of first-person testimonies by 41 men and women who lived through it all. Now, with the seven-part, 15-hour opus "The War" poised to begin airing on PBS Sunday, Burns is visiting media pulpits far and wide to bear witness to what he saw, thought and felt in the making of the project. The series arrives on home... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
YOUR SEPT. 18 editorial "," regarding Governor Patrick's plan to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, calls to mind a couplet by William Blake, who recognized the law of cause and effect. The whore and gambler, by the state. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
His style has been described by poetry critics as surreal, sometimes black and ironic - reminiscent of William Blake. However, there still remains a light spirited feel in some of his poetry, according to his readers. (The New Hampshire, NH)
The topic is highly sensitive in a country that likes to see itself as what poet and artist William Blake called a "green and pleasant land". The UK has been here before - after World War 2, when the government built several new towns around London to ease housing shortages exacerbated by Adolf Hitler's blitz bombings - places such as Crawley and Basildon. (Business Report, South Africa)
Some building on this "Green Belt" is unavoidable, they say: the topic is highly sensitive in a country which likes to see itself as what poet and artist William Blake called a "green and pleasant land.". Britain has been here before. (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
William Blake told it like it was when he wrote: 'Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,/ And Eternity in an hour. The poor sap had just been to a Committee meeting. (India Times, India)
The most recent, Lake Cahuilla, probably filled to capacity about 400 years ago, as was noted in the 1800s by the early California explorer, William Blake. The current Salton Sea, artificial or not, has been - and continues to be - a place of tremendous importance to birds, other wildlife and people of the West. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Future uses of the building would be decided by St. Michael s pastor, the Rev. William Blake, Mr. Casciano said. The Rev. Blake was not available for comment on Friday. (Scranton Times, PA)
Sunflowers History and Culture: A Favorite Annual for Birds and Human. Sunflowers History and Culture. (Suite101.com)
Where William Blake was aware of heavenly voices in the next room, Stanley Spencer was susceptible to visions of holiness along the Cookham lanes. For him, heaven was indeed "a part of Widbrook Common". (Guardian Unlimited)
William Shakespeare, James Joyce, William Blake - surely these are the authors who deserve such obsessive study. "I disagree," said Heather Mitchell, a PhD student in English at Duke University, who is helping to organise and promote the event. (Scotsman)
And none of the 21 engravings by William Blake or 33 mezzotints by David Lucas are on display. "It happened very quickly, so we put the 54 works on view to give a sense of how rich and wonderful the collection is," says Rand. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Until recently when Steven Jobs of Apple sold his collection, he reportedly had an "inexhaustible interest" in the books of William Blake - the mad visionary 18th-century mystic poet and artist. Perhaps future historians will track down Jobs's Blake library to trace the inspiration for Pixar and the grail-like appeal of the iPhone. (International Herald Tribune)
Doherty, inspired by the wonder of William Blake and his idyllic Albion, to the words of Oscar Wilde, to the war poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, as well as the punk theory of The Clash, the melodies of The Beatles and the tortured genius of Morrissey. Doherty, saved british music at it's time of need. (Suite101.com)
The issue explained: Secondary school curriculum reform. Donald MacLeod looks at what 11 to 14-year-old pupils can expect to learn under the latest reforms to the secondary school curriculum. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
He painted such places of vital and spiritual inspiration repeatedly and fancied himself as following the tradition of mystic William Blake. His harsh landscapes from his experience in the wars continue to give a lasting impression. (Suite101.com)
Celebrated 18th-Century Romantic Painter, Poet, and Visionary. Though shunned and isolated in his own time, today he is celebrated as a revolutionary and mystic with a strong sense of personal vision. (Suite101.com)
Marooned in the U.K.'s rain-sodden Midlands and best known for a local soccer team, Manchester has struggled to shake off its abiding image of "dark Satanic mills" first noted by the poet William Blake in his epic Jerusalem back in 1820. It's never quite been the place for picturesque holidays, much less arts festivals until now. (Time.com)
NEW YORK -- At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, William Blake wrote of the "dark satanic mills" that had begun to choke England's verdant pastures. Two centuries later, the scale of global industry has far superseded anything Blake could have imagined. (Boston Globe)
His influences, including Milton, William Blake and Tom Paine, are unprecedented in a children's narrative. He gracefully indicated that he thought the runner-up - Philippa Pearce's long-accepted classic Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) - was the better book. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
WILLIAM BLAKE 1757 1827: Engraver, poet and mystic - one of Englands most important Artists ... WILLIAM BLAKE 1757 1827 ... WILLIAM BLAKE 1757 1827. (Suite101.com)
We strongly believe that while some people judge a wasted youth as a bad thing, we must side with William Blake, who said: The road of excess leads to the place of wisdom. And we should know: weve both had wasted youths as often as we could find them. (Business Report, South Africa)
When thou seeest an eagle, thou seeest a portion of genius, wrote William Blake. On the other hand, when you see a penguin, you tend to see Charlie Chaplin. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
William Blake wrote poems about us; the French Revolution was in part inspired by us. Like all institutions, we often fell short of our best possibilities, but bit by bit, falteringly and over decades and centuries, we improved ourselves. (Los Angeles Times)
By Matt Nething, William Blake Messinger, Bruce Garner, Peter S. Morgan Jr., David Elmore, Dick Carr, Danny Carter, Terence MillerFor the Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/22/07 ... WILLIAM BLAKE MESSINGER, Atlanta. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Board of Assessment Appeals Richard Photos R 854 * Elizabeth Thornquist D 999 Planning and Zoning * Sharon Huxley R 939 Norman Cole D 912 * John Ford lV R 930 Brian Fournier D 913 Planning and Zoning Alternates * Donald Shea R 910 * Nelly Rabinowitz D 945 Steven Ryan R 901 * Marc Adelberg D 904 Zoning Board of Appeals Rudolph Beckert R 906 * Carol Goldberg D 916 Zoning Board of Appeals Alternates Jeffery Sullo R 824 * Ruth Beardsley D 994 * Brian Sackett R 834 * James Foley D 963 Regional Board... (Orange Bulletin, CT)
Inductees are: Roger Johnson (class of 1962), Nancy Wilson (1962), Elayne Leathers (1966), Malcolm Costa (1964), William Gehm (1957), Tim Davis (1964), George Bowen (1966), Doyle Baird (1957), Regina Gaines (1967), William Blake (staff), Robert Brigeman (staff), Aalyah Muhammad (1964) and Leroy Smoot (1964). $20 in advance, $25 at the door. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
"I would like to continue to be part of the team of elected officials who will grapple with the issues of growth, land use, the future of our town and the fair enforcement of our zoning code. I offer the promise to continue to serve my town, if I am re-elected, with that same honesty, forthrightness, dedication, and dependability that I have demonstrated during my first term. I love Bethany for its small-town character, for its rural landscape, for its beauty and its peacefulness." Regional... (Orange Bulletin, CT)
William Blake wrote To generalize is to be an idiot. I think Mr. Blake was right. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
She is warm and articulate, talks easily about everything from her love of William Blake to her MySpace account ("I don't know much about it except it's a nice opportunity to share music with a lot of people"); from what she's listening to now (Wagner's Parsifal, Glen Gould's Goldberg Variations) to the short poem she's written about the Virginia Tech massacre (her niece studies there). One thing she doesn't look is tired, although it has been an unusually big six months. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Goldsmith's interest in literature came from hearing poetry read aloud by his University of Michigan professor and from discovering major English Romantic poets William Wordsworth and William Blake. "I immediately took to one (Wordsworth) for loving lakes and mountains and the other (Blake) for boldly denying nature's importance," he says. (University of California Newswire, CA)
When a person says accusingly that he can't understand Eliot, his tone implies that most of his happiest hours are spent at the fireside among worn copies of the Agamemnon, Phdre, and the Symbolic Books of William Blake. To update Jarrell: When a person says accusingly that he can't understand contemporary poetry, his tone implies that most of his happiest hours are spent at the fireside reading Eliot's "Four Quartets" or "The Waste Land.". (Slate)
William Blake saw all this coming with the dawning of the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, elaborating a cautionary cosmology that pitted the forces of reason, efficiency and utility against the values of imagination, creativity, empathy and delight. But it has taken until the 21st century for his ship to come in, and it's the discipline of design, and the discussion around it, that are, by ever-increasing necessity, driving social change. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The story's lack of kick is acceptable but surprising, given its colorful headliners: Philip Astley , the impresario considered to be the inventor of the modern circus, and radical mystic poet and illustrator William Blake ... Still, if she succeeds in acquainting a new generation with the rapturous work of William Blake on the eve of the 250th anniversary of his birth , she can take pride in her accomplishment. (Boston Globe)
In the words of William Blake: "I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.". On xenophobia: "All western countries are infiltrated by Muslims. Some of them are even able to talk amiably, while they wait for the moment to kill us. They say that the events of September 11 occured because of a shock of civilizations. That is a lie: a shock of civilizations calls for two distinct civilizations and that is not the case.... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Maybe more than two, but in the case of Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright, which boasts the gaudy bauble of William Blake among its attractions, at least two may be discerned -- the one she chose, and the better one she did not ... Such is the William Blake of Burning Bright. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Poetry for Young People: William Blake, edited by John Maynard, illustrations by Alessandra Cimatoribus (Sterling, $14. 95, 48 pages, ages 8 to 12): Maynard has compiled a solid collection of poetry penned by the great Romantic artist of many talents, William Blake (1757-1827), and he supplies a cohesive background of a man who excelled as writer, artist, wood engraver, and maker of exquisite books. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
And the William Blake album too. Then there's Mike Scott. (Guardian Unlimited)
(That would wait for William Blake. Certainly, Shakespeare would not be surprised. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
From William Blake to the neo-Romantics of the 1940s, artists took refuge in capturing the idyll of the countryside ... William Blake's Songs of Innocence. (Guardian Unlimited)
Thus, when poet William Blake wrote about nineteenth-century Englands "dark satanic mills," his criticism invoked unmistakably biblical language and imagery ... Thus, when poet William Blake wrote about nineteenth-century Englands "dark satanic mills," his criticism invoked unmistakably biblical language and imagery. (Townhall.com)
The ladder itself was often used to point toward the direction of "The One." It became easily recognizable in manuscripts, but was also a popular subject matter for artists such as William Blake. Blake, a mystic, illustrated several examples of Jacob s Ladder through vivid paintings. (Suite101.com)
Still, from Dickens to Steinbeck, and from William Blake to Seamus Heaney, great works of the imagination have been made through a passionate engagement with politics. Tom Paulin's Faber Book of Political Verse runs to nearly 500 pages and doesn't seem overlong. (Guardian Unlimited)
The author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' takes a 'Beethoven Lives Upstairs' approach to William Blake in her latest novel ... "Burning Bright" also hews to her winning recipe: Chevalier brilliantly re-creates Georgian London, specifically Lambeth, home of poet, engraver, and radical William Blake. (Christian Science Monitor)
Historical figure: English poet/artist William Blake ... Author Tracy Chevalier houses her characters in Burning Bright right next door to English poet and artist William Blake. (USA Today -- Life)
Lyrically, he was drawing on the fantastical work of William Blake and other Romantic-era poets. Morrison was again absorbing those sounds and weaving them into new compositions to spectacular effect. (KIRO TV, WA)
Her new novel, Burning Bright, attempts the same magic with English visionary William Blake, a poet and artist of extraordinary gifts ... Chevalier: Burning Bright examinespoet William Blake's life. (USA Today -- Life)
This week is William Blake week and its fantastic stuff. At kids bedtime we try Fun Radio, a kids radio station which is surprisingly avant-garde at times. (Guardian Unlimited)
The horned behemoth who haunts Bald Mountain, in Fantasia, is revealed as the progeny of William Blake, Albrecht Durer and Kley, as well as the cinematic vision of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (specifically, his 1926 film, Faust), European symbolist sculpture, and the Germanic fantasy of Richard Riemerschmid, whose 1897 canvas, Ghostly Clouds II, features a swirl of interlocking hollow-eyed wraiths. Tinkerbell, of course, has behind her an entire flotilla of fairy folk, among them the radiant,... (Globe and Mail)
I'm going to take a page from the playbook of my main man, William Blake. He claimed that "without contraries is no progression.". (Daily Collegian, PA)
Despite their childlike simplicity, William Blake's Songs of Experience, with their revolutionary undertones, contain some of the most subversive lines in English poetry, argues Tom Paulin ... Tom Paulin will be discussing Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as part of Radio 3's William Blake series on March 5-8 at 11pm. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
On just such a walk I remembered a quotation from William Blake: o see a World in a Grain of Sand. It goes on to comment on eaven nfinity and ternity, but the first part of the quotation will suffice. (Williston Pioneer, FL)
QCA LIST OF CLASSIC AUTHORS Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Charlotte Brnte, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate Chopin, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, John Masefield, Alexander Pope, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare (sonnets), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, HG Wells, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.... (BBC News -- UK)
Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations. Munch said he felt a great scream piercing the world. (Guardian Unlimited)
The need to be needed is compactly expressed by William Blake. A QUESTION ANSWERED. (Slate)
Maybe if you read all the deep thinkers that his canvases identify as sources of inspiration -- William Blake, J.W. Goethe , Teilhard de Chardin , Carl Jung , the futurist Buckminster Fuller , the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, and dozens more -- and studied Laffoley's pictures for a few years, it would all make sense. But who has time for that. (Boston Globe)
Elsewhere we shall hear quite a lot about WH Auden, Laurence Olivier, John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, all of whom took their first breaths in 1907, Humphrey Bogart (died 1957), and William Blake (born 1757). Whether born at home or abroad, great artistic heroes are invariably accorded the anniversary tributes that they deserve. (Guardian Unlimited)
He was named for his two grandfathers, William Blake and Thomas Tedder. When William was 1-year-old, his father enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving in N.C. Co. H, 18th Regiment, he Columbus Vigilants. (Lumberton The Robesonian, NC)
The town is attempting to remove Town Clerk Virginia Stewart after a Thursday, December 14 meeting between Mr. Stewart's attorney, William Blake of Harlow, Adams and Friedman, P.C.; Town Manager Chuck Frigon; and Town Attorney Franklin Pilicy. According to Ms. Stewart, the meeting was to attempt to find a way to allow Ms. Stewart to go back to work as Town Clerk. (Town Times, CT)
Board of Education Chairman William Blake said whoever gets the position will have "big shoes to fill. He s managed to maintain great relationships with the faculty. He relates very well to kids. He s someone we ll miss," Blake said. Goldstone could not be reached for comment Tuesday. (New Haven Register, CT)
Board of Education, Ruth Ann Ornstein and James Stirling; Amity Regional Board of Education, William Blake. Planning and Zoning, Norman Cole and Brian Fournier; Planning and Zoning Alternate Full Term, Marc Adelberg and Alan P. Towbin; Planning and Zoning Alternate Two Year Term, Clark Winchell. (Ivorytown Beacon, CT)
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