… ‘the doors of perception’ so that ‘every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite’ (E39). Blake always linked himself to Swedenborg or Boehme because he, like them, had visions. Alexander Gilchrist, his mid-Victorian biographer, … attraction was their collection of Dutch, Flemish and German art. Henry Crabb Robinson, a frequent visitor, prided himself that he had introduced ‘the Wordsworths, and the Lambs and the Flaxmans’ (Robinson I, 257). 15 In his diary … During his lifetime, Blake was marginalized due to failing or failed publishing projects. His own initiatives, too, the self-publishing of his poetic works as illuminated books and his exhibition in 1809 were thwarted due to bad choices. …