When William Blake wrote his famous lines, “Tyger, tyger burning bright in the forest of the night” in 1794, what was on his ...

In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand ...

William Blake is today exal­ted as one of the greatest British artists. His life mask is in the National Portrait Gallery, while a bust sits in Westminster Abbey. His poem “The Tyger” is ...

In this episode Simon measures William's Blake's poem 'The Tyger' against the real thing, and asks whether it's true that if a big cat could speak, we still wouldn't understand anything it could say.