The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-20


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ing. and a. w shall 80 presently drawing
was the chief factor for Blake. color being
q humble handmaiden.
In i7s7 Blake married for love Catharine
Boucher. or Boucher. OF whom Mr.. Swim
burne has said that she deserves remem-
brance n about the most perfect wife on
She was ~uneduoated, but learned
to read and wri~>, and later proved an in
helpinatc for the struggling and
Blake. She bound his books
and colored some OF his illustrations. She
bore long poverty u~ncomplainingiy. n In
to say with enthusiasm. Ono
only She faltered. Blake had his own no.
tons about certain Old Testament customs.
and he. il 10 said on the authority of n
had proposed to add another wife
to the poor little household. Mrs. Blake
wept and the matter o. dropped. Other
gossip AYERS that the Adamite in Blake
manifested itself in q not i~nfrequent desire
to cast aside garments and to sit In para
innocence. Whether these stories
were the invention OF malicious associates
or were true. one thing 10 certain: Blake
was capable Of anything for which he could
lind a Biblical precedent. In the matter of
the unconventional he was the Urpater Of
rebels. Shelley, Byron, Swinburne
we're timid amateurs compared to this man. |
Who with a Napoleonic energy translated
thoughts into art. He vas not the idle
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mystic. His energy was electric. 1t sounds
clarion note in his verse and prose, il
reveals itself in the fiery swirlings OF his |
line. a line swift beyond comparison and
absolutely PERSONAL He has been called
by some n a hereto in the Church Of
for like a latter day rebel |
who renounoed Schopsnhauer
Blake soon renounoed Swedenborg. But
Angelo remained a deity for him. |
in his designs the influence OF Angelo
10 paramount.
Blake was the first and only English Prim-
He stems from The Florentines, but !
} Ia 0duche. Tbs bar sinister on his artistic |
,oat of arms is the need OF fundamental
He had q Gothic imagination, |
" Mr.. Symons says. but his dreams lack |
lrchitechtonics. Goethe. too. had dreams,
md We are the richer by Faust. And no
aoubt there are in his works phrases thaS |
Nietzsche has seemed to repeat. But
Nietzsche never heard Of Blake. His ais |
ser, Nine. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzschs OF
.eimar. has assured US Of this. Il 10 the
fashion just now to trace every idea OF
to some one else. Max Stirner |
had never studied, and Of course We
Immediately call Stirner a predecessor OF |
Sietzsche. as were tendhal. Goethe, Pascal, !
10 were all rebels. The truth 10 that the
of rebellion through the ages is
same. Thu mere gesture Of revolt, as
In the uplifted threatening arm OF
! Cain. q P~rometheus. q Julian, 10 no more
conventional than the phraseology Of the
,eretic. How many Of them have written |
inspired bibles. from Mahomet TO Cara \
hustra.' Blake. his tumultuous imaxina-
adre-remember that the artist doubled
poet in his amazing and versatile soul
poured forth for years his -sacred' books.
lis prophecies. his announcements of his
ellow a It was all sincere righteous
but the method OF his speech Ia
the Mormon books Of revelation.
,hristian Science. are miracles Of clarity
n comparison. Let US leave these singular
prophecies Of Blake to tho mystics. One
hing 10 sure-hc has affected many poets
nd thinkers from Rossetti to Shaw. There
re things In -The Marriage OF Heaven and
iell" that Bernard Shaw might have said
not Blake forestalled him. Such is the
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