NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY

1907

PREFACE

LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED

PART I

INTRODUCTION

I

II

WILLIAM BLAKE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

PART II - RECORDS FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES

(I.) EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. IN DR. WILLIAMS'S LIBRARY, 1810-1852

(1) FROM CRABB ROBINSON'S DIARY

(2) FROM A LETTER OF CRABB ROBINSON TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

(3) FROM CRABB ROBINSON'S REMINISCENCES

1810

(II.) FROM 'A FATHER'S MEMOIRS OF HIS CHILD,' BY BENJAMIN HEATH MALKIN (1806)

(III.) FROM LADY CHARLOTTE BURY'S DIARY (1820)

FROM LADY CHARLOTTE BURY'S DIARY (1820)

(IV.) BLAKE'S HOROSCOPE (1825)

NATIVITY OF MR. BLAKE,

THE MYSTICAL ARTIST

(V.) OBITUARY NOTICES IN THE LITERARY GAZETTE' AND 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,' 1827.

I

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Illustrator of the Grave, etc.

II

MR. WILLIAM BLAKE

(VI.) EXTRACT FROM VARLEY'S ZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY (1828)

EXTRACT FROM VARLEY'S ZODIACAL PHYSIOGNOMY

(VII.) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BLAKE BY J. T. SMITH (1828)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BLAKE

(VIII.) LIFE OF BLAKE BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM (1830)