William Blake Painter & Poet

by Richard Garnett

This study subordinates all else to the consideration of Blake as an artist; but the Blake of the brush is too emphatically the Blake of the pen to be too long dissociated from him, and neither can be detached from the background of abnormal visionary faculty. ILLUS. THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

80 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Richard Garnett C.B. (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist (historical linguist) and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum, i.e. what is now the British Library.

His son, Edward married translator Constance Garnett, and their son was David Garnett. David's son Richard Garnett was biographer of Constance.