William Blake

A Critical Essay

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William Blake, A Critical Essay, is by Algernon Charles Swinburne. A dedication to William Michael Rossetti says there are many reasons that should make the writer glad to inscribe that name upon the forefront.

The essay observes of a set of pieces that they contain, though only in the pieces rejected from our present collection, sad indications of the inexplicable influence which an early reading of the detestable pseudo-Ossian seems to have exercised on Blake. A passage on Thel says one might almost say that Thel had overmuch of this gracious and delicate beauty, but not justly, for there is a firm body of significance in the poem. Verse quoted in the essay reads, And pity no more would be if all were happy as we; at his curse the sun went down, and the heavens gave a frown.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He took part in the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry together with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His books include "Erechtheus" and "The Heptalogia".