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The second volume, edited and annotated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, included most of Blake's songs, verse and other poetry, his prose, and letters. These were often the first publication in typeset. The editors sometimes adapted the works during transcription, printing "Tyger" as "Tiger" for the well
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The book became the first standard text on the Blake, a foundation of the extensive scholarship on his life and work. The original 1863 edition was subtitled "Pictor Ignotus", Latin for "unknown artist", a common phrase used for unattributed artworks. Here it refers to Blake's obscurity at the time.
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The work reproduced many of Blake's illustrations from public and private collections, interspersed throughout the biography and series of plates from his illuminated books. Many of these were engraved by
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of the first edition was included in the second as an "Essay on Blake". The biography of the second edition was expanded with Blake's letters, obtained in an 1878 sale at Sothebys.
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known example, and largely excluded discussion and republication of the 'Prophetic Books'. The transcriptions included the
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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With selections from his poems and other writings
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in 1861. The work was published two years later, having been completed by his widow
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and others; however, the larger corpus of his work remained in relative obscurity.
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Anne Gilchrist appended a memoir of her husband, Alexander, to the second volume.
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The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne
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The phrase was taken from the recently published poem of that title by
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The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
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Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical
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is a two-volume work on the English painter and poet
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Index

Life of Blake

Alexander Gilchrist
Frederic Shields
William Blake
biography
William Blake
Alexander Gilchrist
scarlet fever
Anne Gilchrist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti
Robert Browning
epigraph

The Tyger
commonplace books
William Wordsworth
Poetical Sketches
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Book of Thel
Descriptive Catalogue
The Canterbury Tales
William James Linton
Frederic Shields
James Smetham
Life of William Blake, ‘Pictor Ignotus’
Gilchrist's Life of Blake
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