{"product_id":"life-of-william-blake-with-selections-from-his-poems-and-other-writings-paperback-9781108013673","title":"Life of William Blake; With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108013673","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLife of William Blake\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWith Selections from his Poems and Other Writings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 1880 edition of Gilchrist's influential 1863 biography of William Blake, containing a selection of Blake's writings and paintings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexander Gilchrist (Author), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Edited by), William Michael Rossetti (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108013673, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e508 pages, 24 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough today William Blake (1757–1827) is recognised as a visionary poet and artist, at the time of his death he was unknown except for his presumed insanity. This highly influential two-volume biography by the barrister Alexander Gilchrist, first published in 1863 and reissued here in its second edition (1880), rescued William Blake from almost complete obscurity. The accepted interpretation of his madness was challenged and his creative talents were brought to the attention of Victorian society by the inclusion of selected writings and artistic works, nearly all previously unpublished. Volume 1 of Gilchrist's book is an account of William Blake's life, combining excerpts from his written works and paintings with detailed biographical information drawn from surviving letters and contemporary accounts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the second edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the first edition\u003cbr\u003e 1. Preliminary\u003cbr\u003e 2. Childhood\u003cbr\u003e 3. Engraver's apprentice\u003cbr\u003e 4. A boy's poems\u003cbr\u003e 5. Student and lover\u003cbr\u003e 6. Introduction to the polite world\u003cbr\u003e 7. Struggle and sorrow\u003cbr\u003e 8. Meditation: notes on Lavater\u003cbr\u003e 9. Poems of manhood: Songs of Innocence\u003cbr\u003e 10. Books of prophecy: Thel, Marriage of Heaven and Hell\u003cbr\u003e 11. Bookseller's journal\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Gates of Paradise, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The 'America'\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Songs of Experience\u003cbr\u003e 14. Productive years: Europe, Urizen, The Song of Los, Ahania\u003cbr\u003e 15. At work for the publishers\u003cbr\u003e 16. A new life\u003cbr\u003e 17. Poet Hayley and Felpham\u003cbr\u003e 18. Working hours: Letters to Butts\u003cbr\u003e 19. Trial for sedition\u003cbr\u003e 20. South Molton Street: Letters to Hayley\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Jerusalem and the Milton\u003cbr\u003e 22. A keen employer\u003cbr\u003e 23. Gleams of patronage\u003cbr\u003e 24. The designs to Blair\u003cbr\u003e 25. Appeal to the public\u003cbr\u003e 26. Engraver Cromek\u003cbr\u003e 27. Years of deepening neglect\u003cbr\u003e 28. John Varley and the Visionary Heads\u003cbr\u003e 29. Opinions: Notes on Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e 30. Designs to Phillip's Pastorals\u003cbr\u003e 31. Fountain Court\u003cbr\u003e 32. Inventions to the Book of Job\u003cbr\u003e 33. Hampstead\u003cbr\u003e and youthful disciples\u003cbr\u003e 34. Personal details\u003cbr\u003e 35. Mad or not mad\u003cbr\u003e 36. Declining health\u003cbr\u003e Designs to Dante\u003cbr\u003e Mr. Crabb Robinson's reminiscences\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e 37. Last days\u003cbr\u003e 38. Posthumous\u003cbr\u003e 39. 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