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Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

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Phoebe Snow:
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In my profile picture, you see Minerva, the goddess of craft, poetry and wisdom, among many other things; she stands supportive and protective with people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
It's a statue in Stuttgart, which lost its raised hand, so I put mine there, waving a friendly &…

Minerva - Wikipedia

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- Wildflowers and weeds
Celebrating wildflowers like the bluebell, with poetry from Emily Bronte and CM Barker's The Flower Fairies; and nettles and other weeds with Edward Thomas and Marguerite Duras.
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aus der reihe "kompetenzen, über die ich bislang nicht nachgedacht habe" heute:
"Poetry as Knowledge in Librarianship: Inquiry, Identity, and Praxis"
https://bookstore.emerald.com/poetry-as-knowledge-in-librarianship-hb-978183…

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- Wildflowers and weeds
Celebrating wildflowers like the bluebell, with poetry from Emily Bronte and CM Barker's The Flower Fairies; and nettles and other weeds with Edward Thomas and Marguerite Duras.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8fl

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A Poet (2025)
Genre: Drama | Synopsis: Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and ...

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#WordsAndMusic
- Wildflowers and weeds
Celebrating wildflowers like the bluebell, with poetry from Emily Bronte and CM Barker's The Flower Fairies; and nettles and other weeds with Edward Thomas and Marguerite Duras.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8fl

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- Whitman and Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams was devoted to Walt Whitman’s poetry, carrying it with him and setting it often. Laura Barton explores what drew him so strongly to the the American poet.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ylbl

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- Bucket and Spade
It's summer holiday time so we're heading to the beach for seaside prose and poetry from Marcel Proust to Enid Blyton and music from Mendelssohn to The Beach Boys.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y5zw