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WILLIAM BLAKE

posed Biography entertained me much. I could give you the other side. Farewell.'

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(3)—FROM CRABB ROBINSON'S REMINISCENCES

1810

I was amusing myself this spring by writing an account of the insane poet, painter, and engraver, Blake. Perthes of Hamburg had written to me asking me to send him an article for a new German magazine, entitled Vaterländische Annalen, which he was about to set up, and Dr. Malkin having in his Memoirs of his son given an account of this extraordinary genius with specimens of his poems, I resolved out of these to compile a paper. And this I did,^[1] and the paper was translated by Dr.

↑ The article appeared under the title: 'William Blake, Künstler, Dichter und religiöser Schwärmer '(aus dem Englischen) on pp. 107-131 of the Vaterländisches Museum, Zweiter Band, Erstes Heft. Hamburg, bey Friedrich Perthes. 1811.' It has the motto:

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.'
Shakespeare.

Five of Blake's poems, 'To the Muse,' 'Piping down the

[p278-1] The article appeared under the title: 'William Blake, Künstler, Dichter und religiöser Schwärmer '(aus dem Englischen) on pp. 107-131 of the Vaterländisches Museum, Zweiter Band, Erstes Heft. Hamburg, bey Friedrich Perthes. 1811.' It has the motto:

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.'
Shakespeare.

Five of Blake's poems, 'To the Muse,' 'Piping down the

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