Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, The sick rose, by William Blake, 1986

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	270mm
  Width	600mm
  Descriptive size	Panel poster

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	The sick rose
  Text	Poems on the Underground / THE SICK ROSE / William Blake / 1757-1827 / born and died in London / radical, republican, visionary / artist, engraver / invented 'Illuminated Printing' / wrote satires, Prophetic Books / The Compton Poetry Fund / Faber and Faber Publishers Ltd / Oxford University Press / The British Council / O Rose thou art sick. / The invisible worm / That flies in the night / In the howling storm, / Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy: / And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy.

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Material	Paper

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 1986
  Poet	William Blake,
  Publisher	London Underground Ltd, 1986