William Blake

British naturalist and author Henry Williamson penned one of the best-loved animal tales in English literature with his Tarka the Otter (1927). And following the recent news over the status of William Blake’s cottage, it’s interesting to note that the small hut in Devon that Williamson built with the proceeds of Tarka the Otter has […]

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William Blake is not only one of England’s most celebrated and beloved literary and artistic sons worldwide, he is also author of what has become the unofficial English national anthem, “Jerusalem.” Yet the cottage in Felpham, Sussex, where he composed “Jerusalem” is now up for sale to private buyers after UK cultural bodies failed to […]

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