William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… had a close-knit family, many friends, patrons and employers. He was an eclectic reader and sympathized with radical politics as well as with Swedenborgianism. Though his ambitions were thwarted in the emerging market of book selling and … social gatherings, the myth of ‘Pictor Ignotus’ is beginning to fade. 13 . Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). 14 . Keri Davies, ‘“My Little Cane Sofa and the Bust … had a close-knit family, many friends, patrons and employers. He was an eclectic reader and sympathized with radical politics as well as with Swedenborgianism. Though his ambitions were thwarted in the emerging market of book selling and …
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