Category: Review
Mike Westbrook, Phil Minton & The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble with Sue Lynch: Intimations of a Future for Blake’s Music
by Andy Wilson | Jan 5, 2023 | Music, Review, Surrealism, The Traveller in the Evening, William Blake | 0 |
In November 2022, The Mike Westbrook Band and The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble performed settings of Blake’s texts that raise questions about how Blake has previously been made to sing.
Read MoreVideo Interview with Andy Wilson re. Jerusalem: Blake, Parry and the Fight for Englishness
The patriotic frenzy around Brexit and the death of Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor offers an opportunity to reappraise Blake’s song Jerusalem and the nationalistic impulse so many find in it. Here Conor Kostick interviews Andy Wilson about his recent review of Jason Whittaker’s new book on Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’.
Read MoreVideo Interview with Andy Wilson re. William Blake vs the World
John Higgs recently published his book, William Blake vs the World—a ‘countercultural’ take on Blake’s work, written for a non-academic audience. Here, Conor Kostick interviews Andy Wilson about his review of the book and more generally about Blake’s relevance to the countrculture.
Read MoreBlake in Beulah: A Review of John Higgs’s ‘William Blake vs The World’
by Andy Wilson | May 24, 2021 | Essay, Review, The Traveller in the Evening, William Blake | 0 |
John Higgs’s new book promises a contemporary take on the works of William Blake, making them relevant to a modern audience generally, and to the counterculture in particular. So, how well does it live up to its promise?
Read MoreConor Kostick: Art and Revolution – A Review of John Molyneux’s Dialectics of Art
by Conor Kostick | Apr 19, 2021 | Book, Essay, History / Politics, Review | 0 |
The topic of art and revolution deserves a much better book than John Molyneux’s The Dialectics of Art. This critical review explains why.
Read MorePeter Linebaugh’s Red Round Globe, Hot, Burning
by Admin | Oct 23, 2020 | History / Politics, Review, The Traveller in the Evening | 2 |
The Irish Independent Left conducted an interview with the historian Peter Linebaugh about his book, Red Round, Globe Hot, Burning, which discusses Blake at several points and makes some excellent observations about him, Thomas Spence, and others, and their relevance to our times.
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