by John Riordan | Apr 23, 2024 | Emanations
Printing Blake in Houston Trustee of the Blake Society John Riordan writes about his experience printing with the replica Blake press at Rice University, Houston. Earlier this month I had the great privilege of heading to Houston (my first time in Texas) and...
by John Riordan | Mar 5, 2024 | Emanations
In Memory of Morris Eaves Trustees and friends of The Blake Society pay tribute to the late, great Morris Eaves. Morris Eaves was one of the most influential Blake scholars in the post-war period, both in terms of his original contributions to knowledge, but also...
by John Riordan | Mar 4, 2024 | Emanations
Open Letter to The Guardian An open letter to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Jones’ review of William Blake’s Universe at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Dear Editor, We at The Blake Society are inspired by William Blake but we don’t live in the...
by John Riordan | Jan 25, 2024 | Emanations
Bringing Catherine Out of the Shadows For as long as I have been enamored with Blake’s work, I have held the view that Catherine was far more involved in the creative process than was generally known. Over the many decades that I taught Blake’s illuminated poetry to...
by John Riordan | Jan 4, 2024 | Emanations
William Blake: Visionary Impressions of the exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, by Hugo Larman. Now on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles until 14 January 2024, William Blake: Visionary brings together a wealth of Blake’s prints and paintings from Tate...
