William Blake

The Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, began in 1964 to issue MA 's portfolios jointly produced with artist Charles Pachter . In 1966 it published fifteen copies each of: Speeches for...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

Unlike LSB 's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...

The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. The passages...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...

As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...

His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake

MB 's family owned a total of thirty-four Blake watercolours, portraits, and sketches, and several of his engravings, which were housed at Salterns. These were a source of poetic inspiration for MB ; she felt...

This account of her life from childhood to the age of twenty takes its title from a poem by William Blake . The poem's speaker is caught by a Maiden while dancing in the wild...

Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...

ASB later recalled the 1960s as a time of desire to be perpetual children, signified by wearing baby doll dresses and oh-so-innocent daisies as well as by quoting Blake . One of her seminal experiences...

Before she began painting, Carrington mused in a letter to Lytton Strachey about what she had seen: Doré , or Blake could hardly have conceived anything more frenzied.Jane Hill finds in the work...

In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...

She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre.