William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Yale University Press, 2004), p. 282. The 1790s, when Blake lived in Lambeth, were a time of great productivity. Joseph Johnson (1738-1809), publisher of 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 … (1789-98), and Gottfried August Bürger’s 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 …
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