INDEX

Academy, Royal, Blake attends the schools of, 6, 50. Academy, Royal, Exhibits at, 8, 14, 43. Academy, Royal, A grant from, 50. Accusers, The Three, 121. Ahania, The Book of, 23, 120. America, 23; described, 107; a cancel-sheet for, 121. Ancient of Days, The, 56, 112. Apprenticeship to Basire, 5, 20. Atonement, The, 191. Ballads on Animals, illustrations to Hayley’s, 31, 137. Bard, The, 164. Basire, Blake apprenticed to, 5; his influence, 150. Bathsheba at the Bath, 167. Blake, Robert, 4, 15, 133; his death, 15. Blake, William, birth, 3; family history, 4; birthplace, 3; his brothers and sister, 4; marriage, 9; suggested as tutor to the royal family, 22; his last sketch, 56; death, 56; lived at Green Street, 11; Broad Street, 14; Poland Street, 15; Lambeth, 21; Felpham, 24; South Molton Street, 29; Temple, 50; his hatred of oppression, 16; visions of his brother, 17; his kind-heartedness, 22; trial for sedition, 29; influence over younger men, 47, 52; his circle of friends, 48, 52, 54; his surroundings in later years, 50; his appearance, 51, 54; German eulogy, 54; learns Italian, 54; his poverty, 82; his exhibition, 40; criticisms on painting and poetry, 40; his artistic affinities, 41; his aim in art, 7; his literary affinities, 37; views on contemporary artists, 20, 46; justifies his mode of representation, 165; his inability to depict Christ, 145, 190; his intuitive system of belief, 61; his detachment from his age, 61; his view of humanity, 65, 66. Bouchier, Catherine, married to Blake, 9; her character, 10; her death, 56; her assistance in printing, 83. Calvert, Edward, friendship with Blake, 52. Canterbury Pilgrims, The (Blake’s), designed, 37; completed, 38; exhibited, 40. See Stothard, Thomas. Canterbury Pilgrims, The (Engraving), issued, 44; discussed, 176. Coleridge, S. T., meeting with Blake, 47. Cowper, engravings for Hayley’s Life of, 31. Cromek, R. H., his relations with Blake, 35-37, 39. Dante, illustrations to the Divina Commedia of, 54; discussed, 180. David delivered out of Deep Waters, 190. Death of Earl Godwin, 8. Death’s Door, development of the design of, 91, 96. Descriptive Catalogue of Blake’s exhibition, 40, 77, 82, 165, 172, 178, 192. Designs, The Large Book of, 120. Designs, The Small Book of, 120. Education, Blake’s early, 4. Ellis and Yeats, Commentary on Blake, 1, 3, 16, 22, 30, 49, 57, 60, 71. Elohim Creating Adam, The, 171. Europe, 23; described, 110. Exhibitions of Blake’s works, (1809), 40; (1904), 159. Felpham, residence at, 24, 179; early enjoyment of, 25; subsequent unhappiness at, 27. Flaxman, J., introduction to, 8; aid from, 12, 23; correspondence with, 25. Flight into Egypt, The, 167. French Revolution, The, 17. Fresco, Blake’s use of the term, 38. Fuseli, Blake’s friendship with, 8, 17, 50; his appreciation of Blake, 11, 38, 50. Gates of Paradise, The, 23; described, 93. Ghost of Abel, The, 17. Ghost of a Flea, 49. Gilchrist’s Life of Blake, 1, 9, 32, 50, 51, 55. Glad Day, 179. Gothic influences, 5, 151. Grave, The, Blake’s illustrations to Blair’s: sold to Cromek, 35; published, 39; discussed, 140; described, 143; Blake’s introductory verses, 141. Hayley, Blake’s introduction to, 23; life at Felpham, 24-31; illustrations to his Ballads, 31; to his life of Cowper, 31; letters to, 32. Hecate, 168. Humphrey, Ozias, Blake’s relations with, 38. Hunt, Leigh, inept criticisms by, 42. Ideas of Good and Evil, 30. Irish ancestry suggested for Blake, 3. Jerusalem, 31, 34; discussed, 123; described, 127. Job, The Book of, drawings for, 54; discussed, 148; described, 151; sold, 148. Joseph of Arimathea, 6. Judgment of Paris, The, 172. Lamb, Charles, appreciative criticisms by, 99, 179. Lamech and his Two Wives, 168, 169. Laocoon, 50. Last Judgment, The, 38. Lazar House, The, 188. Le Brun, Blake’s early aversion to her work, 6. Lenore, illustrations to Bürger’s, 137. Linnell, John, Blake’s friendship with, 47, 54, 150; and the Book of Job, 149. Little Tom the Sailor, 179. Los, The Book of, 23; described, 122. Los, The Song of, 23; described, 121. Madness, his alleged, 73. Malkin’s Memorials of his child, illustrated by Blake, 38. Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The, 17; discussed, 90; quoted, 101. Mathew, the Rev. Henry, an early friend, 11-14. Michael Angelo, his influence on Blake, 4, 6, 78, 141, 171, 187. Milton, 31; discussed, 130; described, 133. MS. Notebook, Blake’s, references to, 6, 11, 26, 30, 38, 45, 46, 81, 82. Mystical views, Blake’s, are misunderstood, 72-79; explained by Smetham, 75. Mythological characters, Blake’s, 71, 105, 112, 117. National Gallery, works by Blake in the, 189. Nativity, The, 161, 162. Nebuchadnezzar, 22. Nelson, The Spiritual Form of, etc., 185. Night Thoughts, designs for Young’s, 23; described, 137. Oberon, Titania, and Puck, 169. Paine, Tom, Blake’s acquaintance with, 17. Pars’ drawing-classes, Blake attends, 4. Pitt guiding Behemoth, The Spiritual Form of, 192. Poetic Genius, his theory of the, 67, 68. Poetical Sketches, 12. Prices now brought by Blake’s work, 100, 107, 110, 113, 121, 130, 148. Prices received by Blake, 21, 35, 38, 100, 149. Processes employed by Blake, 38, 82, 91, 150, 166, 168, 179, 186, 187. Procession from Calvary, 191. Raphael, early love for, 6. Religious views, 57-71, 102. Religious views, Swedenborg, 57, 58; pantheism, 62; Blake’s beliefs, 62; the necessity of contraries, 65; “art in religion,” 67. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his advice to Blake, 19. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Blake’s MS. notes on Reynolds’ Discourses, 6, 19, 79. River of Life, The, 163, 169. Robinson, Henry Crabb, his relations with Blake, 2, 40, 45, 47, 51, 54, 63, 73. Rossetti, D. G., appreciations of Blake, 12, 40, 185. Rossetti, D. G., owns Blake’s MS. Notebook, 30. Rubens, early comments on, 6. Rylands, proposal to apprentice Blake to, 4. Satan Watching Adam and Eve, 161. Satan, Sin, and Death, 172. Satan Triumphing over Eve, 171. Satan’s Three Accusers, 121. Schiavonetti, Lewis, engraves the drawings for the Grave, 36, 140, 145. Shakespeare, designs to illustrate, 37. Shields, Mr. Frederick J., 52, 138, 183, 185. “Single Vision” of Bacon and Newton, 92. Songs of Experience, 97; described, 98. Songs of Innocence, 16; described, 83. Stothard, Thomas Blake’s introduction to, 8; quarrel with, 37, 40, 42, 43. Stothard, his Canterbury Pilgrims, 37; exhibited, 38; described, 176. Swedenborg, his influence, 38, 57. Swinburne, Mr. A. C., criticisms by, 11, 45, 62, 95, 104, 105, 115. Tales for Children, 91. Tathams, Blake’s friendship with the, 52, 56, 113. Technique, his deficiency in, 78. Thel, The Book of, 17; described, 87. There is no Natural Religion, 115. Three Maries with the Angel at the Sepulchre, 161. Tiriel, 89. Urizen, The Book of, 23; described, 116. Vegetative Life, what Blake meant by the, 2, 64, 127. Virgil’s Pastorals, woodcuts for, 49; described, 146. Vision of Queen Katherine, 173. Visionary Heads, drawn by Blake, 48. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 23; described, 104. Visions of Blake; in childhood, 2; in later years, 17. Water-colour sketches, 187, 188. Westminster Abbey, drawings in, 5. Whore of Babylon, The, 187. Wise and Foolish Virgins, The, 169. Wollstonecraft, Mary, acquaintance with, 17; designs for her Tales, 91. Women, his views on the position of, 70.

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