Gordon Cameron Sly examines Britten's selection and arrangement of songs and cycles—including William Blake's Songs and Proverbs—to better understand the cycles' extra-musical communication.

Though they share the same title, Bruce Dickinson's and William Blake's The Book of Thel are very different in their intent

Both Blake and Jim Morrison saw themselves as poet prophets - but what does that mean for the music of The Doors?

While "Jerusalem" may often invoke memories of Last Night of the Proms, Bruce Dickinson has a very different take.

Nick Drake was often drawn to Blake's lyric vision in his own writing.

The new patron for the cottage in Felpham where William and Catherine Blake lived promises to bring international recognition for the restoration campaign.

Among the very first popular musical settings of Blake's music were those by The Fugs in the 1960s.

Didier Delinotte considers how rock music takes much of its inspiration from lyric poetry

Everyone knows the Doors are named for the doors of perception – but that phrase comes from Aldous Huxley's book on hallucinogens as well as from Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell.