CONTENTS

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[I.]Early Years[1]
[II.]Life at Felpham[21]
[III.]The Procession of the Pilgrims[32]
[IV.]Declining Years[45]
[V.]His Religious Views[57]
[VI.]His Mystical Nature[72]
[VII.]His Art Work[80]
Songs of Innocence.
Book of Thel.
Gates of Paradise.
Songs of Experience.
Tales for Children.
[VIII.]The Prophetic Books[101]
Vision of the Daughters of Albion.
America.
Europe.
[IX.]The Prophetic Books, continued[116]
Book of Urizen.
The Small Book of Designs.
The Large Book of Designs.
Song of Los.
Book of Los.
Jerusalem.
Milton.
[X.]Work in Illustration[136]
Young’s “Night Thoughts.”
Blair’s “Grave.”
Thornton’s “Pastorals.”
The Book of Job.
[XI.]Work in the Exhibition of 1904[159]
[XII.]Engravings and Drawings in the Print Room[176]
The Canterbury Pilgrimage.
Dante.
Pencil Sketches.
Works in the National Gallery.
Index[195]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Last Judgment (from Blair’s “Grave”)[Frontispiece]
Portrait of Blake[1]
The Little Girl Lost (from “Songs of Experience”)[12]
The Divine Image (from “Songs of Innocence”)[16]
“America,” a page from[20]
The Lazar House[22]
“Europe,” a page from[24]
Los, Enitharmon, and Orc (from “Urizen”)[26]
The Re-union of the Soul and the Body (from “The Grave”)[32]
The Pilgrimage to Canterbury (Stothard)[36]
Chaucer’s “Canterbury Pilgrims” (Blake)[36]
Satan Tormenting Job[44]
Blake’s Room in Fountain Court (F. J. Shields)[53]
Death’s Door (from “The Grave”)[66]
The Shepherd (from “Songs of Innocence”)[80]
Frontispiece from “Songs of Innocence”[84]
The Lamb (from “Songs of Innocence”)[86]
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a page from[90]
“I Want, I Want” (from “Gates of Paradise”)[94]
The Deluge (after a Plate in “Gates of Paradise”)[96]
The Tyger (from “Songs of Experience”)[98]
Infant Joy (from “Songs of Innocence”)[100]
“Visions of the Daughters of Albion,” a page from[106]
“America,” the Frontispiece to[108]
“America,” a page from[110]
“Europe,” the Frontispiece to (“The Ancient of Days”)[112]
“Europe,” the first page from[114]
“Urizen,” the title-page from[116]
“Urizen,” Plate VI from[118]
“The Small Book of Designs,” Plate IX from[120]
The Accusers (from “The Large Book of Designs”)[122]
“Jerusalem,” page 33 from[128]
Robert (from “Milton”)[134]
Time Speeding Away (page 25 from “Night Thoughts”)[138]
Death of the Strong Wicked Man (from “The Grave”)[140]
The Soul Reluctantly Parting from The Body (from “The Grave”)[144]
Thornton’s “Virgil’s Pastorals,” woodcuts from[146]
“The Book of Job,” Plate II[150]
“The Book of Job,” Plate V[152]
“The Book of Job,” Plate XIV[154]
The Nativity[162]
The Flight into Egypt[168]
Oberon, Titania, and Puck[170]
Vision of Queen Katherine[174]
The Circle of the Lustful (from “Dante”)[180]
Pencil Sketch for “Death’s Door”[184]
Head of an Old Man[186]
The Whore of Babylon[188]
David Delivered out of Deep Waters[190]
The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth[192]

BOOKS ON BLAKE

Binyon, Robert Laurence. “William Blake: being all his woodcuts photographically reproduced in facsimile.” London, 1902. 4o. [The Unicorn Press: Little Engravings, No. 2.]