William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… also befriended (Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise , 113). Much of his work connected him to current topics: Johann Caspar Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man (1788), translated by Fuseli, which heralded the publication of Essays of Physiognomy … can glean the dimensions of Blake’s social circle, 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 …
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