One day in 1801, when William Blake was living on the Sussex coast, he went on a long country walk when he got into an argument with a thistle. The artist, poet and musician, who experienced ...

A new book, and fresh medical studies, seem to re-frame the artist and poet's famous visions.

A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how he helped us “dream outside the sphere”.