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


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why. % ~ Z. or % can any man. But
will they ooms vhsn you do call for tbemi'
quoth ths gallant Percy. We are. the ma.
jority Of n. ~ unimaxinative % Hotspur.
Bike summoned his sptrits; TO him they M.
pearsd: toquote his own magnificent utter.
ance. The stars threw down their spears,
and wstcred heaven with their tears; hue
We. siasi &c neither stara nor spears nor
tears. only eccentric drauGhtsmanship and
bizarre designs. Yet. after Blake. Dores
Dante Illustrations are commonplace. even
Botticeli's arc only o~mamentally pretty.
Such IL the genius Of the In giishman that. be-
causeof his faulty technique. on the thithes
side of his shadowy~ conceptions there shins
Internationally pictures Of q No Mans Land.
testifying to q burning fantasy hampered
by human tools. He suggests the SUPER
natural. How do you know he asks,
but every bird that cuts the airy way Is
an immense world Of delight closed by your
five?' OF him Ruskin has said,
In expressing conditions Of glaring and
pickering light Blake 10 greater than Rem
brandt" With Dante he must have gone
to the nethermost hell. His warning attri-
butes tease and attract Ms. For the more
human side we commend Blake's seventeen
wood engravings to Thomton's Virgil.
They are not 90 rich as Bewick's. but We
must remember that it was Blake's first
essay with knife and boxwood-h b was
really q praotised copper engraver-and the
effects he produced are wonderful. What
be more powerful in such a tiny
spacs than the moon eclipse and the black
forest illustrating the lines. -Or when the
moon. by wizard charm'd. f~oreshovs Blood
in foul ECLIPSE. impending woesl"
And the dim sunsets. the. low. friendly sky
In the other platesl
Blake's gospel OF art may be given in his
own words: The great Md golden rule
Of art. as of life. il this: that the more dis
tinct. sharp and wiry the boundary line
the more perfect the work Of art; and tbs
less keen and sharp, the greater is the
evidence Of wcak imitation, plagiarism
and bungling.' He abominated the nacre-
Gus iesh one Of Titan. C~orreggio or
Reflected lights are sinful. The
betrays ths soul of the master.
ia several eloquent pages has
q comparison between Walt
Whitman and william Blake. lin the first
edition OF william Blake: ACritical Essay
1881 Both men were radicals. The
words Of either strike deep and run wide
and soar high What would AVE hap
pened to Blake II hs had gone to Italy and
studied the works OF tho masters-for he
truly ignorant Of an entire hemisphere
Of srt2 Turner has made us zee his dreams
Of q gorgeous world; Blake. a. through
! scarce opened door. gives US q b~reathlsss
Of q supenal hrritory, whether
heaven or hell. or both, We dare not aver.
Italy might have claimed him. tanned him.
his arrogance-as IL did Goethe's.
that Walt Whitman had written
instead OF magical and haunting
headlinesl And IL Browning had made
the devious ways of Sordcllo-what
lhen2 what porridge had John Keats
We should have missed the sharp SAVIOR Of
he real Blake, the real Whitman, the real
browning. And what Q number OF inter-
sting books would have remained I'M
written. oh. never star was lost here but
{ arose afar.' What Coleridge wrote Of
nis son Hartley might serve a. a sort Of
'pigraph for Blake: -Exquisitely wild.
utter visionary. like the moon among
hin clouds. he moves In q circle OF his
'wn making He alone II . light Of his
'wn. OF all human beings I never saw