William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… scientific texts as well as religious tracts, was Blake’s main employer. 7 Johnson commissioned Blake to work on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories (1791), designing and engraving its illustrations, Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden … Leonore (1796), which was part of the fad for Gothic literature . 9 Through the Johnson circle Blake would have met Mary Wollstonecraft, Erasmus Darwin and Henry Fuseli as well as Joseph Priestley and William Godwin but there is no certainty …
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