William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… the artisan William Blake was a member of this genteel gathering of earnest liberals, though he was often in political sympathy with them’ (Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise, 110). See also Jon Mee, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and … 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 lost painting Ugolino and His Sons …
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