Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
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Richard Holmes. Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
Gilchrist on Blake. Life of William Blake Pictor Ignotus
Alexander Gilchrist
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. 1
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SELECT CHRONOLOGY
ONE Preliminary
TWO Childhood, 1757-71
THREE Engraver’s Apprentice 1771-78 [ÆT. 14-21]
FOUR A Boy’s Poems 1768-77 [ÆT. 11-20]
FIVE Student and Lover 1778-82 [ÆT. 21-25]
SIX Introduction to the Polite World 1782-84 [ÆT. 24-27]
SEVEN Struggle and Sorrow 1782-87 [ÆT. 25-30]
EIGHT Meditation: Notes on Lavater 1788 [ÆT. 30-31]
NINE Poems of Manhood 1788-89 [ÆT. 31-32]
TEN Books of Prophecy 1789-90 [ÆT. 32-33]
Argument
The Voice of the Devil
A Memorable Fancy
A Memorable Fancy
ELEVEN Bookseller Johnson’s 1791-92 [ÆT. 34-35]
TWELVE The Gates of Paradise, America, ETC. 1793 [ÆT. 36]
The Keys of the Gates
To the Accuser, who is the God of this World
THIRTEEN The Songs of Experience 1794 [ÆT. 37]
FOURTEEN Productive Years 1794-95 [ÆT. 37-38]
Preludium
FIFTEEN At Work for the Publishers 1795-99 [ÆT. 38-42]
SIXTEEN A New Life 1799-1800 [ÆT. 42-43]
From Mrs Blake to Mrs Flaxman
To my dear Friend, Mrs Anna Flaxman
SEVENTEEN Poet Hayley and Felpham 1800-1801 [ÆT. 43-44]
EIGHTEEN Working Hours 1801-3 [ÆT. 44-46]
NINETEEN Trial for High Treason 1803-4 [ÆT. 46-47]
TWENTY Adieu to Felpham 1804 [ÆT. 47]
To Hayley
To the same
On H. [Hayley], the Pickthank
TWENTY-ONE South Molton Street 1804 [ÆT. 47]
To the Jews
TWENTY-TWO A Keen Employer 1805-7 [ÆT. 48-50]
TWENTY-THREE Gleams of Patronage 1806-1808 [ÆT. 49-51]
To Ozias Humphrey, Esq
TWENTY-FOUR The Designs to Blair 1804-8 [ÆT. 47-51]
TWENTY-FIVE Appeal to the Public 1808-10 [ÆT. 51-53]
TWENTY-SIX Engraver Cromek 1807-1812 [ÆT. 50-55]
TWENTY-SEVEN Years of Deepening Neglect 1810-17 [ÆT. 53-60]
TWENTY-EIGHT John Varley and the Visionary Heads, 1818-20 [ÆT. 61-63.]
TWENTY-NINE Opinions: Notes on Reynolds 1820 [ÆT. 63]
Advice of the Popes who succeeded the Age of Raphael
On the Venetian Painter
On Colourists
THIRTY Designs to Phillips’ Pastorals 1820-21 [ÆT. 63-64]
THIRTY-ONE Fountain Court, 1821-25 [ÆT. 64-68]
THIRTY-TWO Inventions to the Book of Job 1823-25 [ÆT. 66-68]
THIRTY-THREE Hampstead; and Youthful Disciples, 1825-27 [ÆT. 68-70]
FRANCIS OLIVER FINCH. IN MEMORIAM
THIRTY-FOUR Personal Details
THIRTY-FIVE Mad or Not Mad
THIRTY-SIX Declining Health: Designs to Dante 1824-1827 [ÆT 67-70]
THIRTY-SEVEN Last Days, 1827 [ÆT. 69-70]
THIRTY-EIGHT Posthumous 1827-31
APPENDIX
LETTERS TO THOMAS BUTTS
FURTHER READING. William Blake
Anne and Alexander Gilchrist
INDEX
CLASSIC BIOGRAPHIESEDITED BY RICHARD HOLMES
Copyright
About the Publisher
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EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
RICHARD HOLMES
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Most crucially, she turned for help to the Rossettis. She did not want them to touch the text of Alex’s biography, but she wanted help with the companion volume: the catalogue of Blake’s pictures and an anthology of his poetry. She proposed to Macmillan that he commission a second volume, to consist of an annotated catalogue of Blake’s visual work compiled by Michael Rossetti, and a selection of Blake’s poetry edited by Dante Gabriel. This was agreed, and the whole project now advanced rapidly on its new footing.
The sudden death of Dante Gabriel’s own wife, Lizzie Siddal, that same spring of 1862, added a peculiar intensity to the work of selection. (‘I feel forcibly’, he wrote to Anne, ‘the bond of misery that exists between us.’) He moved back into bachelor lodgings, which he shared with Meredith and the young Swinburne, and they too acted as unofficial Blake readers and selectors. Even Christina Rossetti came to stay at the Shottermill cottage.
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