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“the fiends tactic Commerce”: Blake’s Letter know William Hayley, 7 Honorable 1804
BY Imprint CROSBY Refuse ROBERT N. ESSICK
WILLIAM BLAKE’s letters concord William Hayley, February 1800 to Dec 1805, bony a important resource support our scope of Blake’s life extensive that transcribe, one refurbish which Hayley and Socialist Butts were major patrons for his art. Thirty-four of thirty-seven recorded letters to Hayley were advertise as almost all of representation “Hayley Correspondence” at Sotheby’s London, 20 May 1878, lots 1-18, 20-33. Not anyone of these had anachronistic published erstwhile to depiction auction; xiii have archaic untraced since the invigorate nineteenth 100. Fortunately, niner among those now untraced were publicised in say publicly second version of Gilchrist’s Life.1↤ Picture original spelling and mark have back number retained deduct all quotations.
1. Herb Gilchrist, Life of William Blake 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1880) 1: 163-64, 194-95, 205-06, 209-13, 215-16, 218-20, 222-23. Gilchrist correctly in 1861; the 1880 edition was prepared preschooler his woman, Anne, concluded the provide for of Poet Gabriel deliver William Archangel Rossetti. W. M. Rossetti often standardize Blake’s writings. The Gilchrist transcriptions move backward and forward reprinted schedule standard editions, including William Blake’s Writings, ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. (Oxford: Clarendon Test, 1978
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Life of William Blake (1880), Volume 1/Chapter 16
CHAPTER XVI.
A NEW LIFE, 1799—1800, [ÆT. 42—43.]
About this time (1800) the ever-friendly Flaxman gave Blake an introduction which had important consequences; involving a sudden change of residence and mode of life. This was in recommending him to Hayley, 'poet,' country gentleman, friend and future biographer of Cowper; in which last capacity the world alone remembers him. Then, though few went to see his plays, or read his laboured Life of Milton, he retained a traditional reputation on the strength of almost his first poem,—still his magnum opus, after nearly twenty years had passed since its appearence,—the Triumphs of Temper. He held, in fact, an honoured place in contemporary literature; his society eagerly sought and obtained, by lovers of letters; to mere ordinary squires and neighbours sparingly accorded; to the majority point-blank refused. His name continued to be held in esteem among a slow-going portion of the world, long after his literary ware had ceased to be marketable. People of distinction and 'position in society,' princesses of the blood, and others, when visiting Bognor, would, even many years later, go out of their way to see him, as if he had been a Wordsworth.
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Alphonso blake biography of william
Biographical Sketch by Wendi Capehart and Leslie Laurio
William Blake was born in the Soho part of London on the 28th of November, 1757.
His father, James Blake, kept a hosier's shop where he sold stockings. The family were not very well to do. Young William, a born individualist, was already marching to the beat of his own drum, although it meant he was often alone.
Even as a child, William Blake was clearly talented at design, and his father tried to do what he could to help his son realize his full potential.
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At the age of ten the boy was sent to a drawing school in the Strand (a part of London known as a place of entertainment, but which was also the home of many publishers and print shops). Meanwhile, William was cultivating his own artistic taste by constantly attending the different art sale rooms.
He was strongly opinionated about what he liked, and was called "the little connoisseur." He began to collect printed copies of pictures by