47: William Blake • On Vision's Wing • Part 1...

Happy Halloween! Here is a little treat: a full reading of one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous stories. The Tell-Tale Heart. Buckle in, this one gets wild.A full series about the master of the macabre is forthcoming, so keep your bell notifications on for that!∞∞∞∞∞Support the C ...  Show more

In 1460, a traveling monk discovered an ancient book of spiritual treatises that changed the world. The work came to be known as the Corpus Hermeticum and all of its writings were credited to a mysterious figure named Hermes Trismegistus. For centuries, historians claimed Trismeg ...  Show more

William Blake was an English poet and visionary artist whose unique work gives us a glimpse into an entirely different world. His art was ignored and neglected, and few people took his work seriously. He was generally seen as a madman. His vivid imagination, visions and mystical ...  Show more

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry" rel="no ...

John Higgs discusses the unconventional life and extraordinary art of poet and painter William Blake. He explains how an eccentric outsider once mocked and dismissed as a madman is now hailed in the pantheon of British art, and reveals how Blake’s work is still misunderstood toda ...  Show more