Connections
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Cultural formation | Mary Butts | |
Education | Storm Jameson | While at Leeds University, SJ
served as Secretary of the Women's Representative Council
of the Student Union, met her future husband Charles Douglas Clarke
(also a student), and wrote an undergraduate thesis on Blake
... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus
, St Augustine |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams
, the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Horovitz | They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake
admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | William Hayley
helped CS
publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | For KR
, poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake
and followed by Coleridge
, Yeats
, and Edwin Muir
. She was at Girton
when a generation of Cambridge... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris
, William Blake
, [a]nd people I don't know; and books... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake
, whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison
. Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin, 1924. 136, 249 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Pitter | Pitter lets loose what she calls her bawdy side in On Cats, as well as opening small subjects onto large vistas. Three tomcats in a dark garden, by a dreadful tree, enact a witches'... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Sharp | She opens with a disquisition on herself as being not a good traveller: easily seasick, not brave, and lacking a sense of direction. However, she says, her reminiscences are selected, to leap over the intervening... |
Timeline
1783: John Flaxman and the Rev. A. S. Mathew paid...
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1783
John Flaxman
and the Rev. A. S. Mathew
paid for the printing (not publication) of William Blake
's first book, Poetical Sketches.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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1789: William Blake published the first of his...
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1789
William Blake
published the first of his engraved books of lyrics, Songs of Innocence.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
May 1809: William Blake's exhibition of his own work...
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May 1809
William Blake
's exhibition of his own work opened at 28 Broad Street (his brother James's house); though scheduled to close in September, it ran until 2 June 1810.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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1826-7: William Blake published his last work as...
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1826-7
William Blake
published his last work as an engraver: illustrations to Dante
's Divine Comedy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
By 4 January 1868: William Blake: A Critical Essay by Algernon...
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By 4 January 1868
William Blake
: A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
appeared.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
After 6 February 1918: Sir Hubert Parry wrote his musical setting...
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After 6 February 1918
Sir Hubert Parry
wrote his musical setting for William Blake
's Jerusalem to celebrate women's victory in the suffrage struggle: this fact is not (unlike the music, which is now as famous as the poem)...
Texts
Blake, William. “Introduction”. Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose, edited by Hazard Adams, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. v - xix.
Blake, William. Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose. Editor Adams, Hazard, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Hayley, William et al. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr. Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson, 1804, 3 vols.
Blake, William. The Poetical Works of William Blake. Editor Sampson, John, editor, Oxford University Press, 1914.