Blake Records Supplement: Being New Materials Relating to the Life of William Blake Discovered Since the Publication of Blake Records (1969)Blake Records Supplement is a continuation of Blake Records (Clarendon Press, 1969), which attempted to collect and publish as many as possible of the references to Blake made by his contemporaries. In the twenty years since work on Blake Records was completed, a good deal of new biographicalinformation about Blake has been found in letters, advertisements, essays, and journals of his contemporaries. The new information incorporated in the Supplement includes references to Blake's musical ability, further evidence of R. H. Cromeck's duplicity in dealing with his illustrations forBlair's Grave, letters of Blake's wife, new evidence about his trial for sedition, and vigorous new comments about Blake despite, or because of, what was taken to be his madness. The two works together provide the solid foundation of all we know about the life of the poet and artist. Like theoriginal volume, the book is fully annotated and indexed. |
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | viii |
The Public and the Buried Life | xxii |
IMPORTANT DATES IN BLAKES LIFE | xlii |
Copyright | |
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