Series statement found at www.getty.edu/publications Includes bibliographical references ("further reading") (page 26).
Contents:
Introduction / Martin Myrone -- Reminiscences of Blake, 1809-27 / Henry Crabb Robinson -- William Blake: artist, poet, and religious mystic, 1810 / Henry Crabb Robinson -- Biographical sketch of Blake, 1828 / John Thomas Smith -- Preliminary to the Life of William Blake, 'Pictor Ignotus', 1863 / Alexander Gilchrist .
Summary:
"William Blake (1757-1827) was a British painter, printmaker, poet, and mystical thinker who became one of the leading figures of Romanticism. This volume presents the earliest critical essay on his art by journalist and diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, reproduced here in full for the first time in English, as well as illuminating biographical texts by painter John Thomas Smith and writer Alexander Gilchrist. An introduction by Martin Myrone, lead curator of British art to 1800 at Tate, contextualizes these writings, which provide a rich, nuanced view of the life and inventive work of both the historical Blake; and the invented Blake, the artist who today occupies a revered place in the pantheon of visionary artists"-- Provided by publisher.
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