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Complete Writings: With All the Variant Readings (ed. 1957)William Blake died #OTD in 1827. Blake's work was neglected for a generation after his death and almost forgotten by the time Alexander Gilchrist began work on his biography in the 1860s. via @wikipedia
Books by or illustrated by William Blake at PG:
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Blake's The Lovers' Whirlwind illustrates Hell in Canto V of Dante's Inferno.
Blake's Ancient of Days, 1794. The "Ancient of Days" is described in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. This image depicts Copy D of the illustration currently held at the British Museum.
Blake's Newton (1795) demonstrates his opposition to the "single-vision" of scientific materialism: Newton fixes his eye on a compass (recalling Proverbs 8:27, an important passage for Milton) to write upon a scroll that seems to project from his own head.