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Life of William Blake
With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings

Volume 1

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

  • Date Published: November 2010
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108013673

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  • Although today William Blake (1757–1827) is recognised as a visionary poet and artist, at the time of his death he was unknown except for his presumed insanity. This highly influential two-volume biography by the barrister Alexander Gilchrist, first published in 1863 and reissued here in its second edition (1880), rescued William Blake from almost complete obscurity. The accepted interpretation of his madness was challenged and his creative talents were brought to the attention of Victorian society by the inclusion of selected writings and artistic works, nearly all previously unpublished. Volume 1 of Gilchrist's book is an account of William Blake's life, combining excerpts from his written works and paintings with detailed biographical information drawn from surviving letters and contemporary accounts.

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    • Date Published: November 2010
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108013673
    • length: 508 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 29 mm
    • weight: 0.64kg
    • contains: 24 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface to the second edition
    Preface to the first edition
    1. Preliminary
    2. Childhood
    3. Engraver's apprentice
    4. A boy's poems
    5. Student and lover
    6. Introduction to the polite world
    7. Struggle and sorrow
    8. Meditation: notes on Lavater
    9. Poems of manhood: Songs of Innocence
    10. Books of prophecy: Thel, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    11. Bookseller's journal
    12. The Gates of Paradise, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The 'America'
    13. The Songs of Experience
    14. Productive years: Europe, Urizen, The Song of Los, Ahania
    15. At work for the publishers
    16. A new life
    17. Poet Hayley and Felpham
    18. Working hours: Letters to Butts
    19. Trial for sedition
    20. South Molton Street: Letters to Hayley
    21. The Jerusalem and the Milton
    22. A keen employer
    23. Gleams of patronage
    24. The designs to Blair
    25. Appeal to the public
    26. Engraver Cromek
    27. Years of deepening neglect
    28. John Varley and the Visionary Heads
    29. Opinions: Notes on Reynolds
    30. Designs to Phillip's Pastorals
    31. Fountain Court
    32. Inventions to the Book of Job
    33. Hampstead
    and youthful disciples
    34. Personal details
    35. Mad or not mad
    36. Declining health
    Designs to Dante
    Mr. Crabb Robinson's reminiscences
    Notes on Wordsworth
    37. Last days
    38. Posthumous
    39. Supplementary.

  • Author

    Alexander Gilchrist

    Editors

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    William Michael Rossetti

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