Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear

1550589Notebook c.1808-1811 65. Delicate Hands & Heads will never appearWilliam Blake

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Blake manuscript - Notebook - page 046

Edited text:[1] edit


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‘Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear
While Titian &c— as in the Book of Moonlight, p. 5.’[2]
 

The original text:[3] edit

 
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Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear
While Titians &c as in the Book of Moonlight p 5

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Notes edit

  1. The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
  2. Of the Book of Moonlight nothing is known beyond the entry on p. 46 of the MS. Book.
  3. "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 514.

 

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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