William Blake's cottage home, not saved by Britain's National Trust, is still on the market to be sold.

Following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway's (not quite-)apartment on the real estate block comes news of William Blake's old cottage home up for sale in Felpham, Sussex, England, one of only two remaining Blake properties still standing.

Initially, the house went on the market last July for £650,000 ($1,107,000, roughly), the first time it was sold since 1929, when the current owner's family purchased it. Yet, despite being where Blake wrote such famous works as the poem for 'Jerusalem,' the English Heritage and National Trust of Britain both refused to step in and purchase the property for the nation. After all, William Blake is no William Shakespeare, and at least 90% of everyone reading this just asked, "Wait, I thought 'Jerusalem' was a town, no?"

The current owner, Heather Howell, 89, has since lowered the price to £520,000 and given the Blake Society until late October, 2014, to scrounge up the money or she'll sell the property on the open market again.

Time being of the essence, the Blake Society has decided to start a crowd sourcing campaign, tapping into those dozens of college students who vaguely remember "Tyger, tyger, burning bright."

Blake Society chairman, Tim Heath, tells London's The Independent, "The cottage needs to be saved to give people across the world the opportunity to celebrate his work and this place of inspiration," while also stating the house won't be made into a museum, but instead "a centre of the imagination."

Like imagining how you once received an A- for that shaky William Blake paper you wrote in sophomore year.



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