Blake Manuscript For Museum
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LONDON, April 17. What is described as the most important manuscript by William Blake (1757-1827), the English mystic, poet and artist, has been presented to the British Museum by an American. A museum spokesman has called it “a magnificent gift” and “a treasure.”
Blake used the notebook for poems, pencil sketches, memoranda, and prose drafts. The sketches include ideas for designs and illustrations, among them a number afterwards used in “Gates of Paradise.” Blake also used the back of the book for drafts of some of the most celebrated of his “Songs of Experience,” including two drafts of the “Tiger.” which .enable the reader to follow every stage in the composition of this famous poem.
The notebook was at one time sold for 10s to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 12
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136Blake Manuscript For Museum Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 12
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