Gilchrist on Blake

Gilchrist on Blake
Author: Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This was the first biography of Blake ever written, at a time when the great visionary poet and painter was generally forgotten, ridiculed or dismissed as insane.

Life of William Blake

Life of William Blake
Author: Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Classic 1863 biography-largely credited with rescuing the great English poet & painter from oblivion-offers sensitive discussions of Blake's childhood, years as an engraver's apprentice, relations with patrons & employers, trial for treason, declining health, untimely death, much more. Also, expert critical commentary on boyhood poems, & great poetic & artistic masterpieces of Blake's maturity.