… the circles of the local elites . 6 Voltaire was well known and admired, drawing crowds clamouring to know the great author; his network of ‘fanatics,’ 7 to quote Charles Collé, were the mark of another form of sociability built around …
… into the books he owned, agreeing, or dismissing and responding with poetic ideas. This kind of dialogue with other authors was augmented through references to other works; Blake, moreover, kept returning to his books, adding more …