Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
- CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER III ENGRAVER'S APPRENTICE
- CHAPTER IV A BOY'S POEMS
- CHAPTER V STUDENT AND LOVER
- CHAPTER VI INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITE WORLD
- CHAPTER VII STRUGGLE AND SORROW
- CHAPTER VIII MEDITATION: NOTES ON LAVATER
- CHAPTER IX POEMS OF MANHOOD: SONGS OF INNOCENCE
- CHAPTER X BOOKS OF PROPHECY: THEL, MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
- CHAPTER XI BOOKSELLER JOHNSON'S
- CHAPTER XII THE GATES OF PARADISE, VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, THE ‘AMERICA’
- CHAPTER XIII THE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
- CHAPTER XIV PRODUCTIVE YEARS: EUROPE, URIZEN, THE SONG OF LOS, AHANIA
- CHAPTER XV AT WORK FOR THE PUBLISHERS
- CHAPTER XVI A NEW LIFE
- CHAPTER XVII POET HAYLEY AND FELPHAM
- CHAPTER XVIII WORKING HOURS: LETTERS TO BUTTS
- CHAPTER XIX TRIAL FOR SEDITION
- CHAPTER XX SOUTH MOLTON STREET: LETTERS TO HAYLEY
- CHAPTER XXI THE JERUSALEM AND THE MILTON
- CHAPTER XXII A KEEN EMPLOYER
- CHAPTER XXIII GLEAMS OF PATRONAGE
- CHAPTER XXIV THE DESIGNS TO BLAIR
- CHAPTER XXV APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC
- CHAPTER XXVI ENGRAVER CROMEK
- CHAPTER XXVII YEARS OF DEEPENING NEGLECT
- CHAPTER XXVIII JOHN VARLEY AND THE VISIONARY HEADS
- CHAPTER XXIX OPINIONS: NOTES ON REYNOLDS
- CHAPTER XXX DESIGNS TO PHILLIPS'S PASTORALS
- CHAPTER XXXI FOUNTAIN COURT
- CHAPTER XXXII INVENTIONS TO THE BOOK OF JOB
- CHAPTER XXXIII HAMPSTEAD; AND YOUTHFUL DISCIPLES
- CHAPTER XXXIV PERSONAL DETAILS
- CHAPTER XXXV MAD OR NOT MAD
- CHAPTER XXXVI DECLINING HEALTH; DESIGNS TO DANTE; MR. CRABB ROBINSON'S REMINISCENCES; NOTES ON WORDSWORTH
- CHAPTER XXXVII LAST DAYS
- CHAPTER XXXVIII POSTHUMOUS
- CHAPTER XXXIX SUPPLEMENTARY
- Plate section
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
- CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER III ENGRAVER'S APPRENTICE
- CHAPTER IV A BOY'S POEMS
- CHAPTER V STUDENT AND LOVER
- CHAPTER VI INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITE WORLD
- CHAPTER VII STRUGGLE AND SORROW
- CHAPTER VIII MEDITATION: NOTES ON LAVATER
- CHAPTER IX POEMS OF MANHOOD: SONGS OF INNOCENCE
- CHAPTER X BOOKS OF PROPHECY: THEL, MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
- CHAPTER XI BOOKSELLER JOHNSON'S
- CHAPTER XII THE GATES OF PARADISE, VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION, THE ‘AMERICA’
- CHAPTER XIII THE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
- CHAPTER XIV PRODUCTIVE YEARS: EUROPE, URIZEN, THE SONG OF LOS, AHANIA
- CHAPTER XV AT WORK FOR THE PUBLISHERS
- CHAPTER XVI A NEW LIFE
- CHAPTER XVII POET HAYLEY AND FELPHAM
- CHAPTER XVIII WORKING HOURS: LETTERS TO BUTTS
- CHAPTER XIX TRIAL FOR SEDITION
- CHAPTER XX SOUTH MOLTON STREET: LETTERS TO HAYLEY
- CHAPTER XXI THE JERUSALEM AND THE MILTON
- CHAPTER XXII A KEEN EMPLOYER
- CHAPTER XXIII GLEAMS OF PATRONAGE
- CHAPTER XXIV THE DESIGNS TO BLAIR
- CHAPTER XXV APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC
- CHAPTER XXVI ENGRAVER CROMEK
- CHAPTER XXVII YEARS OF DEEPENING NEGLECT
- CHAPTER XXVIII JOHN VARLEY AND THE VISIONARY HEADS
- CHAPTER XXIX OPINIONS: NOTES ON REYNOLDS
- CHAPTER XXX DESIGNS TO PHILLIPS'S PASTORALS
- CHAPTER XXXI FOUNTAIN COURT
- CHAPTER XXXII INVENTIONS TO THE BOOK OF JOB
- CHAPTER XXXIII HAMPSTEAD; AND YOUTHFUL DISCIPLES
- CHAPTER XXXIV PERSONAL DETAILS
- CHAPTER XXXV MAD OR NOT MAD
- CHAPTER XXXVI DECLINING HEALTH; DESIGNS TO DANTE; MR. CRABB ROBINSON'S REMINISCENCES; NOTES ON WORDSWORTH
- CHAPTER XXXVII LAST DAYS
- CHAPTER XXXVIII POSTHUMOUS
- CHAPTER XXXIX SUPPLEMENTARY
- Plate section
Summary
One short word of sorrowful significance which has had to be inserted in the title-page, while it acquaints the reader with the peculiar circumstances under which this Biography comes before him, seems also to require a few words about its final preparation for the press; the more so as the time which has elapsed since the Life of Blake was first announced might otherwise lead to a wrong inference respecting the state in which it was left by the beloved author when he was seized, in the full tide of health and work and happy life, with the fever which, in five days, carried him hence. The Life was then substantially complete; and the first eight chapters were already printed. The main services, therefore, which the Work has received from other hands – and great they are – appear in the Second Part and in the Appendix: in the choice and arrangement of a large collection of Blake's unpublished and hitherto almost equally inaccessible published Writings, together with introductory remarks to each Section; and in a thorough and probably exhaustive Annotated Catalogue of his Pictorial Works.
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- Life of William BlakeWith Selections from his Poems and Other Writings, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880