Chapter 7

Abel the Shepherd,176Abstract Philosophy,109Adam and Eve observed by Satan,123Aders, Mr and Mrs,187Age of Reason,87,93Ahania,111Akashic Records,132Albion,149-50America: A Prophecy,96-7,98American Independence, War of,86,87,98Ancient of Days,101Angelic Wisdom,58Angelico, Fra,176Arblay, M. d’,85Asia,109Astrology,172-3Augustine, St,152Austen, Jane,170Barbauld, Mrs,30Bartolozzi,17,123,154Barton, Bernard,174Bas Bleu,28Basire,17,18Bastille, the,89,90,92Bath, Lord,29Beaumont and Fletcher,33Beethoven,170Bible, the,122,133Bildad,184Blair’sGrave,154-9Blake, Catherine,30,31,37,38,40,66,148Blake, James (Sen.),12,39Blake, James (Jun.),39Blake, Robert,14,39,40,45Blake, 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;designsMorning, orGlad 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 annotatesAngelic 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 thebonnet rouge,89;on sex,94-6;moves to 13 Hercules Buildings,98;engravesEurope: A Prophecy,99,101;illustrates Bürger’sLenore,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,188Blue-stockings, the,26-36Boehme, Jacob,23,47,49,51,56,58,72,118,165,172Bond Street,21Book for a Rainy Day,30Book of Ahania,110Book of Job,181-2Book of Los,110Book of Urizen,106Boucher, Catherine,24Bourdon,129Bousset,61Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery,123Brahma,109Bray, Mrs,160,162Breughel,129Brontë, Charlotte,177Brook Kerith,178Brooke, Mrs,30Bull and Bush, North End, Hampstead,174Bunyan, John,140Bürger,111,112Burke, Edmund,85,89Burney, Dr,29Burney, Fanny,28,42,85,86,170Butler, Samuel,166Butts, Thomas,121,124,125,127,132Calvert, Edward,175,176Candide,28Caracci,126Carter, Mrs,26,27,28,30Castle of Otranto,34Catherine of Siena, St,53,133Chapone, Mrs,30,31Chatterton,14Chaucer,161,162,163Chaucer’sCanterbury Pilgrims,159Chesterfield, Lord,Letters to his Son,27Christ,152Christ and the Woman of Samaria,176Clod, the,104Coleridge, S. T.,82,170Collins’ Farm, North End, Hampstead,174Correggio,126,172Cosmos, the,134,147,183,185Cowper, W.,82,116,123,124,130Cowper, Life of,130Crime and Punishment,98Croce, Benedetto,193Cromek, Robert Hartley,154-6,159,160,165Cumberland, George,172Dante,73,114,133,187,192Deism,144-5De Profundis,178Designs for Job,183-6Dialogues of the Dead,26Dogma,192Dostoieffski,98Dualism,143Dürer, Albert,16,17,41,42,129,172Earl Godwin,42Ego-theism,71Elihu,185Elinor,112Eliot, George,112Eliphaz,184Elizabethan age,16Emmet, the,193Engleheart,160Enitharmon,99,100,108Eno,111Enquiry concerning Political Justice,82Epipsychidion,95Essay on Old Maids,121Essenes, the,61Europe,109Europe: A Prophecy,99-101Evelina,42Ezekiel,137,144,181,189Ezra,118Fair Elinor,34Felpham,117,119,125,126Fénelon,50,53Fielding, Copley,172Fingal,14Flaxman,22,24,25,29,30,31,116,117,118,119,121,123,159,160,171Flaxman, Maria,114Flemishpicturesque,125Florentine School of Art,16Fludd,23Foote, Samuel,49Fordyce, Dr,85France,109Francis of Assisi, St,45Franklin,96French Revolution,85,87,89,90-2,101,118Fuseli,24,81,171-2Fuzon,110,111Garrick,115Gaskell, Mrs,177Gates of Paradise,178Genlis, Madame de,86Ghost of a Flea,173Gibbon, Edward,115Gilchrist,45Glad Day,42Gnosticism,134Godwin, W.,82-4,86,87,88,92,145,172,190Goethe,30,36,54,170Goldsmith, Oliver,18Gordon, Lord George,23Gothic architecture,17Grand Style,125Gregory, Dr,85Guyon, Madame,23,47,50Gwen, King of Norway,34Habakkuk,129Halls of Los,122Hamilton,42Hardy,88Harlow,160Haydn,170Hayley, William,114-130,137,139-42,153-4,165,171Head of Romney,153Heath, James,160Heaven and Hell,78Hegel,181Hell,57Hemskerck, Martin,16Herbert, George,176Hervey,49,50Hesketh, Lady,116Highland Society,14Hogarth,42,43,158Holbein, Hans,129Holcroft,88Holmes, James,172,175Hoppner,162How sweet I roam’d,16,33Hume,36Hunt, W. H.,172Ibsen,190Imagination,122,125Imlay, Charles,86Immanence,192Inspiration,122,132,133Isaiah,118Jacob,169Jefferson,87Jerusalem,113,131,132,142,149,151Jesus Christ,165-8,189,190-1Job, Book of,76John, Saint,152Johnson, bookseller,22,81,82,86,90,123Johnson, Dr,20,27,28,36,47,48,145,192Johnson, Rev. John,119,122Jonah,181Jonson, Ben,14,16,31,33Joseph of Arimathea,18Juniper Hall,85Kaufmann, Angelica,17Keim,61King Edward the Third,33King Edward and Queen Elinor,42Klopstock’sMessiah,122Landseer,161Laocoon,179Lavater,50-4,171Law, William,48,165Le Brun,21Lenore, Bürger’s,111Linnell, John,172,173-5,181Little Girl Found,103Little Girl Lost,103Little Tom the Sailor,119Locke, John,109London, Bishop of,29Los,75,107,108,109,139,144,194Luke, St,185Luvah,144Lyca,104Lyttelton, Lord,26,29Lytton, Bulwer,82,173,178Mackintosh,89Macpherson,14,15,42Mad Song,33Maimonides,54Marriage of Heaven and Hell,75,81,176Martin, Rev. John,173,176Mathew, Mrs,25,29,30,31,32,35,39,44,119Mathew, Rev. Henry,29,30,32Memory,122,132,133,135,136,137,147Mendelssohn, Moses,54Meyer,115Michael Angelo,16,17,18,21,42,44,117,

Abel the Shepherd,176Abstract Philosophy,109Adam and Eve observed by Satan,123Aders, Mr and Mrs,187Age of Reason,87,93Ahania,111Akashic Records,132Albion,149-50America: A Prophecy,96-7,98American Independence, War of,86,87,98Ancient of Days,101Angelic Wisdom,58Angelico, Fra,176Arblay, M. d’,85Asia,109Astrology,172-3Augustine, St,152Austen, Jane,170Barbauld, Mrs,30Bartolozzi,17,123,154Barton, Bernard,174Bas Bleu,28Basire,17,18Bastille, the,89,90,92Bath, Lord,29Beaumont and Fletcher,33Beethoven,170Bible, the,122,133Bildad,184Blair’sGrave,154-9Blake, Catherine,30,31,37,38,40,66,148Blake, James (Sen.),12,39Blake, James (Jun.),39Blake, Robert,14,39,40,45Blake, 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;designsMorning, orGlad 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 annotatesAngelic 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 thebonnet rouge,89;on sex,94-6;moves to 13 Hercules Buildings,98;engravesEurope: A Prophecy,99,101;illustrates Bürger’sLenore,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,188Blue-stockings, the,26-36Boehme, Jacob,23,47,49,51,56,58,72,118,165,172Bond Street,21Book for a Rainy Day,30Book of Ahania,110Book of Job,181-2Book of Los,110Book of Urizen,106Boucher, Catherine,24Bourdon,129Bousset,61Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery,123Brahma,109Bray, Mrs,160,162Breughel,129Brontë, Charlotte,177Brook Kerith,178Brooke, Mrs,30Bull and Bush, North End, Hampstead,174Bunyan, John,140Bürger,111,112Burke, Edmund,85,89Burney, Dr,29Burney, Fanny,28,42,85,86,170Butler, Samuel,166Butts, Thomas,121,124,125,127,132Calvert, Edward,175,176Candide,28Caracci,126Carter, Mrs,26,27,28,30Castle of Otranto,34Catherine of Siena, St,53,133Chapone, Mrs,30,31Chatterton,14Chaucer,161,162,163Chaucer’sCanterbury Pilgrims,159Chesterfield, Lord,Letters to his Son,27Christ,152Christ and the Woman of Samaria,176Clod, the,104Coleridge, S. T.,82,170Collins’ Farm, North End, Hampstead,174Correggio,126,172Cosmos, the,134,147,183,185Cowper, W.,82,116,123,124,130Cowper, Life of,130Crime and Punishment,98Croce, Benedetto,193Cromek, Robert Hartley,154-6,159,160,165Cumberland, George,172Dante,73,114,133,187,192Deism,144-5De Profundis,178Designs for Job,183-6Dialogues of the Dead,26Dogma,192Dostoieffski,98Dualism,143Dürer, Albert,16,17,41,42,129,172Earl Godwin,42Ego-theism,71Elihu,185Elinor,112Eliot, George,112Eliphaz,184Elizabethan age,16Emmet, the,193Engleheart,160Enitharmon,99,100,108Eno,111Enquiry concerning Political Justice,82Epipsychidion,95Essay on Old Maids,121Essenes, the,61Europe,109Europe: A Prophecy,99-101Evelina,42Ezekiel,137,144,181,189Ezra,118Fair Elinor,34Felpham,117,119,125,126Fénelon,50,53Fielding, Copley,172Fingal,14Flaxman,22,24,25,29,30,31,116,117,118,119,121,123,159,160,171Flaxman, Maria,114Flemishpicturesque,125Florentine School of Art,16Fludd,23Foote, Samuel,49Fordyce, Dr,85France,109Francis of Assisi, St,45Franklin,96French Revolution,85,87,89,90-2,101,118Fuseli,24,81,171-2Fuzon,110,111Garrick,115Gaskell, Mrs,177Gates of Paradise,178Genlis, Madame de,86Ghost of a Flea,173Gibbon, Edward,115Gilchrist,45Glad Day,42Gnosticism,134Godwin, W.,82-4,86,87,88,92,145,172,190Goethe,30,36,54,170Goldsmith, Oliver,18Gordon, Lord George,23Gothic architecture,17Grand Style,125Gregory, Dr,85Guyon, Madame,23,47,50Gwen, King of Norway,34Habakkuk,129Halls of Los,122Hamilton,42Hardy,88Harlow,160Haydn,170Hayley, William,114-130,137,139-42,153-4,165,171Head of Romney,153Heath, James,160Heaven and Hell,78Hegel,181Hell,57Hemskerck, Martin,16Herbert, George,176Hervey,49,50Hesketh, Lady,116Highland Society,14Hogarth,42,43,158Holbein, Hans,129Holcroft,88Holmes, James,172,175Hoppner,162How sweet I roam’d,16,33Hume,36Hunt, W. H.,172Ibsen,190Imagination,122,125Imlay, Charles,86Immanence,192Inspiration,122,132,133Isaiah,118Jacob,169Jefferson,87Jerusalem,113,131,132,142,149,151Jesus Christ,165-8,189,190-1Job, Book of,76John, Saint,152Johnson, bookseller,22,81,82,86,90,123Johnson, Dr,20,27,28,36,47,48,145,192Johnson, Rev. John,119,122Jonah,181Jonson, Ben,14,16,31,33Joseph of Arimathea,18Juniper Hall,85Kaufmann, Angelica,17Keim,61King Edward the Third,33King Edward and Queen Elinor,42Klopstock’sMessiah,122Landseer,161Laocoon,179Lavater,50-4,171Law, William,48,165Le Brun,21Lenore, Bürger’s,111Linnell, John,172,173-5,181Little Girl Found,103Little Girl Lost,103Little Tom the Sailor,119Locke, John,109London, Bishop of,29Los,75,107,108,109,139,144,194Luke, St,185Luvah,144Lyca,104Lyttelton, Lord,26,29Lytton, Bulwer,82,173,178Mackintosh,89Macpherson,14,15,42Mad Song,33Maimonides,54Marriage of Heaven and Hell,75,81,176Martin, Rev. John,173,176Mathew, Mrs,25,29,30,31,32,35,39,44,119Mathew, Rev. Henry,29,30,32Memory,122,132,133,135,136,137,147Mendelssohn, Moses,54Meyer,115Michael Angelo,16,17,18,21,42,44,117,


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