William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… ‘Pictor Ignotus’, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1863), vol. I, p. 8. All references are to volume one of Gilchrist’s biography. In the 1780s Blake developed his writing and, again, his social networks tie into his projects. Poetical … for Johnson, from 1786 to 1801 (The Stranger from Paradise, 108). 8 . G.E. Bentley Jr, The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 106 9 . See Sibylle Erle, Blake, … present course […] when I have got my work printed I will send it you first of any body’ (E769-770). 12 . Hayley wrote a biography of his friend, the poet William Cowper (1731-1800) and asked Blake to engrave a portrait after a painting by …
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