Artist and Poet

Pity, c. 1795 by William Blake.

From Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII when Macbeth what would happen after Duncan is murdered “And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air.”

Blake’s unique style developed from his training as an illustrator and his unbounded imagination.