Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist. Richard Holmes

      

      Gilchrist on Blake

      Life of William Blake Pictor Ignotus

      by

      Alexander Gilchrist

      EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

      RICHARD HOLMES

      I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. ‘What!’ it will be questioned, ‘when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?’ Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!’ I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

      BLAKE.—A Vision of the Last Judgment.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

Introduction

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]

       Eleven Bookseller Johnson’s 1791-92 [ÆT. 34-35]

       Twelve The Gates of Paradise, America, ETC. 1793 [ÆT. 36]

       Thirteen The Songs of Experience 1794 [ÆT. 37]

       Fourteen Productive Years 1794-95 [ÆT. 37-38]

       Fifteen At Work for the Publishers 1795-99 [ÆT. 38-42]

       Sixteen A New Life 1799-1800 [ÆT. 42-43]

       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]

       Twenty-One South Molton Street 1804 [ÆT. 47]

       Twenty-Two A Keen Employer 1805-7 [ÆT. 48-50]

       Twenty-Three Gleams of Patronage 1806-1808 [ÆT. 49-51]

       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]

       Thirty Designs to Phillips’ Pastorals 1820-21 [AElig;T. 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]

       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

       Further Reading

       Index

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       Copyright