The Life of William Blake
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The Life of William Blake

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The Life of William Blake

About this book

One of the greatest Victorian-era biographies, Alexander Gilchrist's The Life of William Blake plays a key role in the history of Blake's work and its influence on other writers and artists. The first standard text on Blake and a cornerstone of the extensive scholarship on his life and work, it not only delivered its subject from unjust obscurity but also dispelled the notion of Blake's insanity and established his genius as a visionary artist and poet.
Sensitive, highly readable accounts trace Blake's childhood and years as an engraver's apprentice, his relations with patrons and employers, his trial for treason, and his declining health and untimely death. The author's wide-ranging research includes interviews with many of Blake's surviving friends, whose personal recollections add warmth and immediacy to this portrait. Extensive quotes from the subject's poetry and prose — practically unknown at the time of the original 1863 publication — further enliven the text. In addition to a critical commentary on Blake's boyhood poems, this transformative biography features more than 40 of his illustrations.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9780486143927
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Artist Monographs

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Introduction
  5. Preface to First Edition
  6. Chapter I Preliminary
  7. Chapter II Childhood. 1757-71
  8. Chapter III Engraver’s Apprentice. 1771-78. [ÆT. 14-21]
  9. Chapter IV A Boy’S Poems. 1768-77. [ÆT. 11-20]
  10. Chapter V Student And Lover. 1778-82. [ÆT21-25]
  11. Chapter VI Introduction To The Polite World. 1782-84. [ÆT. 25-27]
  12. Chapter VII Struggle And Sorrow. 1782-87. [ÆT. 25-30]
  13. Chapter VIII Meditation: Notes On Lavater. 1788. [ÆT30-31]
  14. Chapter IX Poems Of Manhood. 1788-89. [ÆT31-32]
  15. Chapter X Books Of Prophecy. 1789-90. [Æ. 32-33]
  16. Chapter XI Bookseller Johnson’S. 1791-92. [Æ. 34-35]
  17. Chapter XII The Gates Of Paradise, “ America, ” etc. 1793. [Æ. 36]
  18. Chapter XIII The “Songs Of Experience. ” 1794. [Æ. 37]
  19. Chapter XIV Productive Years. 1794-95- [ ÆT. 37-38]126
  20. Chapter XV At Work For The Publishers. 1795-99. [Æ. 38-42]
  21. Chapter XVI A New Life. 1799-1800. [Æ. 42-43]
  22. Chapter XVII Poet Hayley And Felpham. 1800-1. [ÆT. 43-44]
  23. Chapter XVIII Working Hours. 1801-3. [Æ. 44-46]
  24. Chapter XIX Trial For High Treason. 1803-4. [Æ. 46-47]
  25. Chapter XX Adieu To Felpham. 1804. [Æ. 47]200
  26. Chapter XXI South Molton Street. 1804. [Æ. 47]
  27. Chapter XXII A Keen Employer. 1805-7. [ ÆT 48-50]
  28. Chapter XXIII Gleams Of Patronage. 1806-8. [ÆT. 9-51]
  29. Chapter XXIV The Designs To “Blair.” 1804-8. [MT. 47-51]
  30. Chapter XXV Appeal To The Public. 1808-10. [MT. 51-53]
  31. Chapter XXVI Engraver Cromek. 1807-12. [ÆT. 50-55]
  32. Chapter XXVII Years Of Deepening Neglect. 1810-17. [MT. 53-60]
  33. Chapter XXVIII John Varley And The Visionary Heads. 1818-20 [MT. 61-63]
  34. Chapter XXIX Opinions: Notes On Reynolds. 1820. [MT. 63]
  35. Chapter XXX Designs To Phillips’ Pastorals. 1820-21. [MT. 63-64]
  36. Chapter XXXI Fountain Court. 1821-25. [MT. 64-68]294
  37. Chapter XXXII “Inventions To The Book Of Job. ” 1823-25. [. ET. 66-68]
  38. Chapter XXXIII Hampstead: And Youthful Disciples. 1825-27. [Æ. 68-70]
  39. Chapter XXXIV Personal Details.
  40. Chapter XXXV Mad Or Not Mad?
  41. Chapter XXXVI Declining Health: Designs To Dante. 1824-27 [Æ. 67-70]
  42. Chapter XXXVII Last Days. 1827. [Æ. 69-70]
  43. Chapter XXXVIII Posthumous. 1827-31
  44. Chapter XXXIX Supplementary
  45. The Colour Prints
  46. Annotated List Of Blake’S Paintings, Drawings, And Engravings
  47. Blake’S Descriptive Catalogue
  48. Index