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vi PREFACE reproductions from Captain Archibald Stirlings superb coloured copy of the Jemsalem, to Captain Stirling also my warm thanks are due. Mr. W. Graham Robertson has permitted me to publish reproductions of seven of the drawings in his unique collection, and I could gladly have leaned more upon his liberality than I have, but that other claimants had forestalled me. Mr, George Macmillan and Sir Charles Dilke have also kindly allowed me to reproduce works in their possession and I have to thank the authorities at the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge for a similar per mission. I am also indebted to Professor Tylor, and to Messrs. W. Bateson, A. M. S. Methuen, and Bowes Morrell, for lending to me or otherwise allowing me to inspect the books and pictures in their possession. The authorities at the South Kensington and at the British Museum have met my demands with their usual long suffering kindness and I must not forget the advantage I received from the presence of a Blake specialist in the Print Room. The inception of the work was due to the enthusiasm of a friend, who will, I fear, view only with regret my qualified devotion to my subject. KlNGHAM, 1909. CONTENTS OHAP. PAOB I. BLAKES LIFE ...... i II. BLAKES SECRET . . . . .,26 III. BLAKES CONCEPTION OF L. OVR . . .38 IV. BLAKES MADNESS . . . . . .56 V. BLAKES THEORY OF THE IMAGINATION . 69 VI. THE RATIO OF THE FIVE SENSES . . .102 VII. BLAKES THEORIES OF His ART . . .112 VIII. SYMBOLISM IN POETRY AND ART. THK PRO PHETIC BOOKS . . . . . .148 IX, THE CONFINES OF POETRY AND PAINTING . 170 X. BLAKE THE ARTIST . . . . .211 XI. THE MYSTIC VISION . . . . - 273 INDEX . . . . . . . .291 ILLUSTRATIONS William Blake. Messrs. Quaritch . TheDoor of Death. British Museum . Facing page 4 Thel and the Lily. British Museum x8 The Fury of my Course among the Stars. British Museum ... 26 Queen Katharines Vision, George A. Macmillan, Esq. . 29 Lord, teach these souls to fly. British Museum, , .... 30 Oberon and Titania, British Museum . 35 The Soul and the Divine Love. Captain Archibald Stirling .... 55 Richard III. and the Ghosts of His Victims. George A. Macmillan, Esq,, 59 Mary Wollstonecraft illustrated. British Museum, ...-. 74 Art Thou a Worm British Museum . 100 An Illustrated Aphorism. British Museum 3t 105 Title-page to America. British Museum 138 ILLUSTRATIONS The Hymn of Christ and the Apostles. W. Graham Robertson, Esq. . . Faring jpuye 146 Forms of Cities. British Museum . . 159 Los and the Sun. British Museum ., 168 Mystery. British Museum ... 185 Plucking the Flower of Joy. British Museum v 190 The Billows of Eternal Death. Captain Archibald Stirling .... 192 Man in the Chariot of Nature. Captain Archibald StirKng .... 195 Adam Among the Animals. British Museum 197 Christ in the Lap of Truth. W. Graham Robertson, Esq. ..... 201 The Four and Twenty Elders. W. Graham Robertson Esq 204 William Cowper after Lawrence. British Museum 2l8 The Fertilisation of Egypt after Fuseli. British Museum 219 Pilgrims to Canterbury. British Museum 223 Vergil Illustrated for Schoolboys. British Museum it 226 The Crucifixion. British Museum ., , , 231 Thought froze the Infinite to a Serpent British Museum .... 234 ILLUSTRATIONS xi Nebuchadnezzar. Messrs. Carfax, . facing page 244 A Diver. British Museum. ... 248 Prophetic Figures. British Museum 249 Cain Fleeing from His Parents. British Museum ...... 250 Joseph Ordering Simeon to beBound. Fitsnvilliam Museum, Cambridge . . 255 The Three Maries at the Sepulchre. W. Graham Robertson, Esq. . . 256 The Compassion of Pharaohs Daughter. W, Graham Robertson, Esq. . . 257 The Judgment of Paris. W. Graham Robertson, Esq. ..... 261 Satan Tormenting Job. Sir Charles DiUce 262 Christ Baptising. W. Graham Robertson, Esq 279 To Open the Eternal Worlds. Captain Archibald Stirling, 281 CHAPTER I BLAKES LIFE THE history of Blakes life has been so often written that it would waste ink and paper to write it over again...

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