By G. E. Bentley Jr.
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Synopsis:
The severe Heritage gathers jointly a wide physique of severe resources on significant figures in literature. every one quantity offers modern responses to a writer's paintings, allowing pupil and researcher to learn the fabric themselves.
Contents:
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
NOTE at the TEXT
Part I Blake’s Life
1 basic comments
2 exterior events
3 Politics
4 Visions
5 Madness
6 ‘He is often in Paradise’
Part II Writings
7 studies of Malkin’s account of Blake (1806)
8 common comments
9 Poetical Sketches (1783)
10 The publication of Thel (1789)
11 The French Revolution (1791)
12 Songs of Innocence and of expertise (1789, 1794)
13 the US (1793) and Europe (1794)
14 Descriptive Catalogue (1809)
15 Jerusalem (1804–?20)
Part III Drawings
16 General comments
Part IV Engraved designs
17 General comments
18 Salzmann, components of Morality (1791)
19 Burger, Leonora (1796)
20 Cumberland, recommendations on define (1796)
21 Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens, vol. III, 1794
22 Young, evening techniques (1797)
23 Hayley, Essay on Sculpture (1800)
24 Hayley, Designs to a sequence of Ballads (1802)
25 Hayley, Life...of William Cowper (1803)
26 Hayley, Triumphs of mood (1803)
27 Hoare, educational Correspondence (1804)
28 Hayley, Ballads (1805)
29 Blair, The Grave (1808)
General reviews, 1805–63
Reviews
General reviews, 1810–26
30 The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer’s Pilgrims (1812)
31 Virgil, Pastorals (1821)
32 Remember Me! (1825, 1826)
Introduction
33 Illustrations of The e-book of activity (1826)
34 Blake’s Illustrations of Dante (?1838)
Part V basic essays on Blake
35 B.H.MALKIN, A Father’s Memoirs of his baby, 1806
36 H.C.ROBINSON, ‘William Blake, artist, poet and spiritual mystic’, Vaterländisches Museum, translated, 1811
37 Obituary in Literary Gazette, 1827
38 Obituary in Literary Chronicle, 1827
39 ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, ‘William Blake’ in his Lives of... British Painters, 1830
40 ANON., ‘The innovations of William Blake, painter and poet’, London college journal, 1830
41 ANON., ‘The final of the supernaturalists’, Fraser’s journal, 1830
42 FREDERICK TATHAM, ‘Life of Blake’, ?1832
Part VI Forgotten Years: References to William Blake 1831– 62
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANNOTATED INDEX OF NAMES
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Some saw beauty in the designs, but none claimed to understand the texts. T. Smith’s comment of 1828 that ‘his later poetry, if it may be so called, attached to his plates, …was not always wholly uninteresting’ (No. 15c). In 1839 Garth Wilkinson was able to see ‘some glimmer of meaning’ in Thel, though he thought it showed strains of the madness which marked Blake’s other verse (No. 10). The anonymous critic in the London University Magazine (1830) found the illuminations of Thel ‘charming’ and ‘fairy-like’ and the ‘beautiful whole’ a ‘fanciful production of a rich imagination’ (No.
Phillips, eds, William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1973), pp. 310–48. Omitting, however, most of the separate plates designed by others but engraved by Blake. Graham Robertson, whose collection was separately catalogued (1952) and sold at Christie’s on 22 July 1949. Collins Baker, Catalogue of William Blake’s Drawings and Paintings in the Huntington Library (1938; rev. Butlin, William Blake (1757–1827): A Catalogue of the Works of William Blake in the Tate Gallery (1957, rev.
26 Note on the Text The great majority of the references to Blake here are repeated, by permission, from Blake Records (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969), where they are organized by date.