William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… (1757-1845), a civil servant, now recognised as Blake’s main collector. Many of Blake’s patrons were his friends - the letters make explicit familiarity and sympathy . Blake wrote to the Editor of the Monthly Review to defend Fuseli, whose … the depths of his relationships, personal or commercial, as well as spats with friends and employers from the surviving letters as well as the epigrams written into the Notebook that Blake inherited from his brother Robert. During his …
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