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William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea speaks to processing childhood trauma

In William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea (1820) a huge muscled figure fills the frame. He steps forward, the left side of his body towards the viewer. In one outstretched hand he holds a bleeding bowl (used to catch the blood released during bloodletting) made from an acorn.…

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Country diary: A priceless view of a tiger beetle – let’s keep it that way

Burbage, Derbyshire: National parks and the countless marvels they contain should be as they were originally intended – free to all

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Visual Guide To Poison Tree Tattoos: Symbolism, Styles, And Placement

Explore poison tree tattoo ideas: symbolism of suppressed anger, resentment, and consequence. Discover styles, placement, and culturally rich meaning.

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No CCTV on William Blake’s pleasant pastures seen

Brief letters: Slow Horses | Tyger musical | Losing a dog | Americanisms | Humorous Word Wheel

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Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

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Angela Lemaire obituary

Other lives: Printmaker, painter, wood engraver and writer who lived and worked in Jedburgh

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The liberation of Tom Odell: 'I always felt like an outsider'

Tom Odell is firmly in a hot new creative phase with viral hits, a flurry of albums and huge shows supporting Billie Eilish

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"System Of A Down made me feel like I belonged in the metal scene." Lowen's Nina Saeidi: 10 records that changed my life

Lowen vocalist Nina Saeidi picks the 10 records that changed her life

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“This deluxe edition contains actual soil from the grave of William Blake”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is releasing a comic book compilation with dirt from the resting place of one of England’s most famous poets

Ever wanted to own a comic printed using the dirt that surrounds William Blake’s dead body? Bruce Dickinson’s got you covered!

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“It’s not like anything else I’ve written… I sank into it, and before I knew there was nothing of me there. That’s when magic happens”: How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means

Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense

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Country pub of the week: The Leicester Arms, Penshurst

Here is an England that never existed, an England of cricket on the green and William Blake, says David Ellis

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Plans for cultural hub at house of William Blake backed by London Assembly

The Mayfair property offers a ‘unique opportunity’ to ‘secure Blake’s legacy for generations to come’

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Poem of the week: Are they shadows … by Samuel Daniel

A beguiling look at the fleeting pleasures of theatre, and the fleetingness of pleasure itself

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Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart

Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many things: she was a pop star, an actress and a muse. But she was probably best known for her voice.

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David Hockney unveils unseen work for major Paris retrospective

Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist’s biggest exhibition

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‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

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The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman review – the science of imagination

A neuroscientist’s sprawling survey of the creative mind takes in both William Blake and physicist Paul Dirac

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What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

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Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn

The genitals of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at it

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The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London

With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates

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The Ultimate Libra Gift Guide: Best present ideas for Libras in 2024

Presents for those born between September 23 and October 22

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Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum

Campaign aims to renovate Sussex home where artist and poet wrote Jerusalem in time for 200th anniversary of his death

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Best crystal bracelets for any outfit

Wearable, healing accessories for the spiritually-minded

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Henry Moore at the Courtauld Gallery review: a splendid show of the great sculptor's lesser-known drawings

These drawings make us think again about Moore the sculptor, while the gallery also has a fine show of Vanessa Bell’s works that is worth visiting

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Best illustrated books for adults for a visually captivating yarn

Picture perfect storytelling at its finest

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