William Blake, the Man

by Charles Gardner

INDEX

Abel the Shepherd, [176]
Abstract Philosophy, [109]
Adam and Eve observed by Satan, [123]
Aders, Mr and Mrs, [187]
Age of Reason, [87], [93]
Ahania, [111]
Akashic Records, [132]
Albion, [149-50]
America: A Prophecy, [96-7], [98]
American Independence, War of, [86], [87], [98]
Ancient of Days, [101]
Angelic Wisdom, [58]
Angelico, Fra, [176]
Arblay, M. d’, [85]
Asia, [109]
Astrology, [172-3]
Augustine, St, [152]
Austen, Jane, [170]
Barbauld, Mrs, [30]
Bartolozzi, [17], [123], [154]
Barton, Bernard, [174]
Bas Bleu, [28]
Basire, [17], [18]
Bastille, the, [89], [90], [92]
Bath, Lord, [29]
Beaumont and Fletcher, [33]
Beethoven, [170]
Bible, the, [122], [133]
Bildad, [184]
Blair’s Grave, [154-9]
Blake, Catherine, [30], [31], [37], [38], [40], [66], [148]
Blake, James (Sen.), [12], [39]
Blake, James (Jun.), [39]
Blake, Robert, [14], [39], [40], [45]
Blake, William, born, [11];
baptized, [12];
vision at Peckham Rye, [13];
books read, [14];
learns drawing from Mr Pars, [15];
apprenticed to Basire, [17];
joins the Academy under Moser, [21];
designs Morning, or Glad Day, [22];
falls in love with Polly Wood, [23];
marries Catherine Boucher, [24];
meets Flaxman, [30];
goes to Mrs Mathew’s parties, [30];
on war, [34-5];
lodges at 23 Green Street, [37];
moves to 27 Broad Street, [39];
nurses Robert, [40];
moves to 28 Poland Street, [40];
engraves after Stothard, [44];
Robert imparts method of engraving, [45];
comments on Lavater’s Aphorisms, [51];
and Swedenborg, [55-80];
reads and annotates Angelic Wisdom, [62-5];
subscribes his name to tenets of the New Church, [66];
on Swedenborg, [72];
takes leave of Swedenborg, [80];
among the rebels, [89];
wears the bonnet rouge, [89];
on sex, [94-6];
moves to 13 Hercules Buildings, [98];
engraves Europe: A Prophecy, [99], [101];
illustrates Bürger’s Lenore, [111];
goes to Felpham, [117];
paints miniatures, [119-21];
learns Greek from Hayley, [121];
returns to London, [127];
South Molton Street, [127];
vision clears after visit to Truchsess gallery, [129];
and Sir J. Reynolds, [156-9];
writes descriptive catalogue, [161];
and Chaucer, [162-3];
vision of Jesus Christ, [165-8];
new friends, [172];
and Varley, [172-3];
removes to 3 Fountain Court, Strand, [180];
sells his collection of engravings, [180];
and Book of Job, [182-86];
and Dante, [187];
illness, [187];
death, [188]
Blue-stockings, the, [26-36]
Boehme, Jacob, [23], [47], [49], [51], [56], [58], [72], [118], [165], [172]
Bond Street, [21]
Book for a Rainy Day, [30]
Book of Ahania, [110]
Book of Job, [181-2]
Book of Los, [110]
Book of Urizen, [106]
Boucher, Catherine, [24]
Bourdon, [129]
Bousset, [61]
Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, [123]
Brahma, [109]
Bray, Mrs, [160], [162]
Breughel, [129]
Brontë, Charlotte, [177]
Brook Kerith, [178]
Brooke, Mrs, [30]
Bull and Bush, North End, Hampstead, [174]
Bunyan, John, [140]
Bürger, [111], [112]
Burke, Edmund, [85], [89]
Burney, Dr, [29]
Burney, Fanny, [28], [42], [85], [86], [170]
Butler, Samuel, [166]
Butts, Thomas, [121], [124], [125], [127], [132]
Calvert, Edward, [175], [176]
Candide, [28]
Caracci, [126]
Carter, Mrs, [26], [27], [28], [30]
Castle of Otranto, [34]
Catherine of Siena, St, [53], [133]
Chapone, Mrs, [30], [31]
Chatterton, [14]
Chaucer, [161], [162], [163]
Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims, [159]
Chesterfield, Lord, Letters to his Son, [27]
Christ, [152]
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, [176]
Clod, the, [104]
Coleridge, S. T., [82], [170]
Collins’ Farm, North End, Hampstead, [174]

Correggio, [126], [172]
Cosmos, the, [134], [147], [183], [185]
Cowper, W., [82], [116], [123], [124], [130]
Cowper, Life of, [130]
Crime and Punishment, [98]
Croce, Benedetto, [193]
Cromek, Robert Hartley, [154-6], [159], [160], [165]
Cumberland, George, [172]
Dante, [73], [114], [133], [187], [192]
Deism, [144-5]
De Profundis, [178]
Designs for Job, [183-6]
Dialogues of the Dead, [26]
Dogma, [192]
Dostoieffski, [98]
Dualism, [143]
Dürer, Albert, [16], [17], [41], [42], [129], [172]
Earl Godwin, [42]
Ego-theism, [71]
Elihu, [185]
Elinor, [112]
Eliot, George, [112]
Eliphaz, [184]
Elizabethan age, [16]
Emmet, the, [193]
Engleheart, [160]
Enitharmon, [99], [100], [108]
Eno, [111]
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, [82]
Epipsychidion, [95]
Essay on Old Maids, [121]
Essenes, the, [61]
Europe, [109]
Europe: A Prophecy, [99-101]
Evelina, [42]
Ezekiel, [137], [144], [181], [189]
Ezra, [118]
Fair Elinor, [34]
Felpham, [117], [119], [125], [126]
Fénelon, [50], [53]
Fielding, Copley, [172]
Fingal, [14]
Flaxman, [22], [24], [25], [29], [30], [31], [116], [117], [118], [119], [121], [123], [159], [160], [171]
Flaxman, Maria, [114]
Flemish picturesque, [125]
Florentine School of Art, [16]
Fludd, [23]
Foote, Samuel, [49]
Fordyce, Dr, [85]
France, [109]
Francis of Assisi, St, [45]
Franklin, [96]
French Revolution, [85], [87], [89], [90-2], [101], [118]
Fuseli, [24], [81], [171-2]
Fuzon, [110], [111]
Garrick, [115]
Gaskell, Mrs, [177]
Gates of Paradise, [178]
Genlis, Madame de, [86]
Ghost of a Flea, [173]
Gibbon, Edward, [115]
Gilchrist, [45]
Glad Day, [42]

Gnosticism, [134]
Godwin, W., [82-4], [86], [87], [88], [92], [145], [172], [190]
Goethe, [30], [36], [54], [170]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [18]
Gordon, Lord George, [23]
Gothic architecture, [17]
Grand Style, [125]
Gregory, Dr, [85]
Guyon, Madame, [23], [47], [50]
Gwen, King of Norway, [34]
Habakkuk, [129]
Halls of Los, [122]
Hamilton, [42]
Hardy, [88]
Harlow, [160]
Haydn, [170]
Hayley, William, [114-130], [137], [139-42], [153-4], [165], [171]
Head of Romney, [153]
Heath, James, [160]
Heaven and Hell, [78]
Hegel, [181]
Hell, [57]
Hemskerck, Martin, [16]
Herbert, George, [176]
Hervey, [49], [50]
Hesketh, Lady, [116]
Highland Society, [14]
Hogarth, [42], [43], [158]
Holbein, Hans, [129]
Holcroft, [88]
Holmes, James, [172], [175]
Hoppner, [162]
How sweet I roam’d, [16], [33]
Hume, [36]
Hunt, W. H., [172]
Ibsen, [190]
Imagination, [122], [125]
Imlay, Charles, [86]
Immanence, [192]
Inspiration, [122], [132], [133]
Isaiah, [118]
Jacob, [169]
Jefferson, [87]
Jerusalem, [113], [131], [132], [142], [149], [151]
Jesus Christ, [165-8], [189], [190-1]
Job, Book of, [76]
John, Saint, [152]
Johnson, bookseller, [22], [81], [82], [86], [90], [123]
Johnson, Dr, [20], [27], [28], [36], [47], [48], [145], [192]
Johnson, Rev. John, [119], [122]
Jonah, [181]
Jonson, Ben, [14], [16], [31], [33]
Joseph of Arimathea, [18]
Juniper Hall, [85]
Kaufmann, Angelica, [17]
Keim, [61]
King Edward the Third, [33]
King Edward and Queen Elinor, [42]
Klopstock’s Messiah, [122]
Landseer, [161]
Laocoon, [179]
Lavater, [50-4], [171]
Law, William, [48], [165]

Le Brun, [21]
Lenore, Bürger’s, [111]
Linnell, John, [172], [173-5], [181]
Little Girl Found, [103]
Little Girl Lost, [103]
Little Tom the Sailor, [119]
Locke, John, [109]
London, Bishop of, [29]
Los, [75], [107], [108], [109], [139], [144], [194]
Luke, St, [185]
Luvah, [144]
Lyca, [104]
Lyttelton, Lord, [26], [29]
Lytton, Bulwer, [82], [173], [178]
Mackintosh, [89]
Macpherson, [14], [15], [42]
Mad Song, [33]
Maimonides, [54]
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, [75], [81], [176]
Martin, Rev. John, [173], [176]
Mathew, Mrs, [25], [29], [30], [31], [32], [35], [39], [44], [119]
Mathew, Rev. Henry, [29], [30], [32]
Memory, [122], [132], [133], [135], [136], [137], [147]
Mendelssohn, Moses, [54]
Meyer, [115]
Michael Angelo, [16], [17], [18], [21], [42], [44], [117],

[126], [129], [139], [157], [158], [171]
Milton, John, [44], [76], [105], [118], [123-4], [132], [133], [137], [138], [139], [151]
Milton, [122], [124], [131], [132], [137-142], [152]
Miniature Painting, [119], [120], [121], [125]
Montagu, Mrs, [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [35]
Moore, George, [61], [178]
More, Hannah, [28], [115]
Morland, George, [173]
Morning, or Glad Day, [22]
Morris, Mr, [71]
Mortimer, [42]
Moses, [182], [183]
Mulgrave, Lord, [29]
Mulready, W., [172]
Muses, the, [122]
My Silks and Fine Array, [33]
Mysterious Mother, [34]
Mysticism, German, [68]
Napoleon, [170]
Narbonne, M. de, [85]
Nature, [13], [125], [146], [149]
Nelly O’Brien, [158]
Newman, Cardinal, [176]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [109]
Nietzsche, [54], [133], [139], [140], [170], [190]
Night Thoughts, Young’s, [112]
No Popery Riots, [23]
North American States, [44]
North End, Hampstead, [174], [176]
Odin, [109]
On Homer’s Poetry, [179]
On Virgil, [179], [180]
Oothoon, [94-5]
Opie, Mrs, [115]
Oram, [30]
Orc, [99], [100], [109], [110]
Ord, Mrs, [28]
Ossian, [14]
Ossian, [105]

Paine, Tom, [82], [86-8], [89], [93], [96], [98], [144], [145], [190]
Palamabron, [109]
Palmer, Samuel, [172], [175-6]
Pantheism, [71], [72], [106], [107], [143]
Pantheism, Hindoo, [191]
Paracelsus, [23], [47], [58], [118], [172]
Paradise Lost, [136]
Parker, [39], [40]
Pars, Mr, [15]
Pascal, [28]
Passion, [76], [77], [147-8]
Pastorals of Virgil, [180]
Paul, St, [134], [135], [140], [146], [181]
Paulus, Dr, [61]
Pebble, the, [154]
Penance of Jane Shore, [42]
Pepys, Sir Lucas, [29]
Percy’s Reliques, [14]
Phillips, Captain, [29]
Pilgrimage to Canterbury, [160-1]
Piozzi, Mrs, [84]
Plato, [109], [149], [152]
Poetical Sketches, [33], [44]
Poison Tree, [104]
Pope, A., [114]
Portland, Duchess of, [26]
Price, Dr, [82]
Priestley, Dr, [82], [87], [93]
Proverbs of Hell, [76]
Pythagoras, [109]
Quakers, [174]
Quintilian, [28]
Radcliffe, Mrs, [34]
Raphael, [16], [21], [42], [126], [157]
Reign of Terror, [89], [100], [102], [117], [190]
Rembrandt, [42], [158], [171]
Renan, [61]
Repression, [189-90], [191]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [118], [126], [156-9], [193]
Reynolds’ Discourses, [157-8], [193]
Richmond, George, [176-7]
Rights of Man, [88]
Rintrah, [109]
Ritson’s English Songs, [44]
Robinson, Crabb, [161], [177], [187]
Romano, Julio, [16]
Romney, [115], [116], [118], [119], [123], [124], [130]
Romney, Life of, [130]
Rose, Samuel, [127]
Rotten Row, Hampstead, [174]
Rousseau, [28], [36], [109], [145]
Rowley, [14]
Royal Academy, [21], [25]
Rubens, [21], [42]
Samson, Dr, [99]
Satan, [76], [139], [183], [184], [186]
Schiavonetti, Lewis, [155], [160]
Schiavonetti, Niccolo, [160]
Schoolboy, the, [104]
Schweitzer, [61]
Scott, Sir W., [14], [170]
Seven Planes, [134]
Seward, Anna, [115]
Sex, [147-8]
Shakespeare, [14], [26], [27], [33], [44], [76], [118], [132], [133]

Sharpe, [123]
Shelley, [71], [84], [95], [133], [172]
Shields, F., [112]
Shipwreck, after Romney, [130], [153]
Skofield, [127]
Smelt, Mr, [29]
Smith, J. T., [30], [39]
Socrates, [109]
Song of Liberty, [93]
Song of Los, [108]
Songs of Experience, [70]
Songs of Innocence, [69], [102], [103]
Sotho, [109]
Spencer, [31]
Spencer’s Faery Queen, [14]
Staël, Madame de, [86]
Stothard, [22], [24], [44], [112], [114], [159], [160], [161], [162], [164], [165], [171]
Strange Story, [173]
Strauss, [61]
Swedenborg, [30], [39], [49], [51], [52], [53], [55-80], [58], [59], [105], [110], [118], [137], [138], [143], [160], [187], [190], [191], [192], [194]
Swinburne, [14], [33], [53]
Symbolism, [136]
Tabard Inn, [162]
Talleyrand, [85]
Tatham, F., [177]
Tharmas, [144]
The Divine Image, [69]
The Little Vagabond, [71]
Thel, [66-9]
Thelwall, [86]
Theosophy, [134]
Theotormon, [94-5]
Theresa, St, [23], [47], [50]
Thomson, [14]
Thornton, Dr, [180]
Thus Spake Zarathustra, [190]
Tiger, the, [193]
Tiriel, [66], [67]
Titian, [42], [172]
Tolstoï, [193]s
Tooke, Horne, [86]
Townshend, Charles, [87]
Transcendence, [192]
Trismegistus, [109]
Triumphs of Temper, [114], [115], [121]
Truchsess, Count, [129]
Urizen, [66], [67], [75], [93], [99], [106], [107], [108], [110], [111], [139], [142], [144], [194]
Varley, Cornelius, [173]
Varley, John, [172-3], [174]
Venetian art, [117]
Venetian finesse, [125]
Vesey, Mrs, [28]
Vinci, Leonardo da, [129], [185]
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, [94-5], [97]
Voltaire, [28], [36], [109], [145]
Wainewright, T. G., [177-8]
Walpole, Horace, [26], [28], [34], [85]
War, [34], [35], [43], [44]
Warren, [96]
Washington, [96]

Water Colour Society, [172]
Watson, Caroline, [130]
Watteau, [129]
Webster, [33]
Werther, [28]
Wesley, John, [23], [48], [49], [50], [66], [139], [140], [165]
West, Sir Benjamin, [173]
Whitefield, [23], [49], [50], [66], [139], [140], [145], [165]
Wilberforce, [177]
Wilde, Oscar, [178]
Wilkinson, Garth, [53], [68], [71], [72]
Wollstonecraft, Mary, [82], [84-6], [88], [89], [92], [190]
Wood, Polly, [23]
Woollett, [17], [18]
Wordsworth, [13], [170]
Yeats, W. B., [112], [132]
Young, Edward, [112]
Zanoni, [173]
Zoas, the Four, [113], [124], [131], [142], [145], [182]
Zophar, [184]

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Footnotes:

[1] This fact was first pointed out by Mr Laurence Binyon.

[2] Jerusalem, 72. 50-52.

[3] Prov. viii. 27-31.

[4] Jerusalem, 15. 61-69.

[5] Thirteenth Discourse.

[6] Genesis xlvi. 13.

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