Category: Poetry
The position of William Blake among artists is exceptional. Of no other painter of like distinction, save Dante Rossetti, can it be said that his fame as a poet has fully rivalled his fame as a painter; much less that, in the opinion of some, his fame as a seer ought to have e...
_Blake’s Life in South Molton Street and Fountain Court--Acquaintance with Linnell and Varley--Drawings of Visionary Heads--Miscellaneous Works in Private Collections--Illustrat...
2. CHAPTER IIIt was during his residence in Poland Street that Blake first appeared in that mingled character of poet and painter which marks him off so conspicuously from other painters and...
3. CHAPTER IIIBlake was now about to make a change in his external environment, which would have been momentous to any artist whose themes had been less exclusively discerned by the inner eye...
1. CHAPTER IThe position of William Blake among artists is exceptional. Of no other painter of like distinction, save Dante Rossetti, can it be said that his fame as a poet has fully rivall...