The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-20
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vision IL Blakei He hssisasss bus this once.
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mating and Isss lyric and psrfervid than
feass. 10 whc.e eossIsd In lie admiration and
lcss reticent In praise than anything ws
have thus far had from his felicisous pen.
Notwithstanding the neglsct TO which
Blake was subjected during his lifetime
and The misunderstanding sver sinos his
death Of his extraordinary and imaginative
designs. poetry and va~ticinations. IL 10 dis
qudetins to - how books about Blake are
beginning 10 pile up. Blake 10 in tho air.
He may even prove a. popular a. fbssn.
A certain form Of genius serves a. Q spring-
board for critical performances. Blake In the
most admirable example. though Whitman
and Browning are In the same class. Az
good old Walt said. Il shower specimens."
Specimens Blake showered, and specimens
were Shove cred by Browning. Called cryp-
tic by their own, they are too well under
o by q later generation. Wagner once
swan in the consciousness Of the elect; and
he was understood. Baudelaire understood
him, and 50 did List. Wagner to-day is
the property OF the man in the street, who
whistles him. and Ibsen IL already painfully
yielding up his precious secrets to relentless
-~expounding' torturers. As for Maeterlinck,
he il become . mere byw ord In literary clubs,
where thsy discuss his Bee in company with
the last Shaw epigram. Even ~caviare. il
seems. may become q little hyblown,' ex-
claims Mr.. Dowden. Everything 10 being
explained. Oh. happy age! Who once
wrote: "A hundred fanatics are found to a
theological or metaphysical statement. but
not n for a geometric problem?
Yet VI may 30 too rash. Blaks's pro-
phetic, books are still cloudy Nightmares,
for all but the elect. and not Swinburne,
Gilchrist. latham. Richard Garnet, Ellis,
Binyon. Yeats. symons. Graham Robert
son, Alfred Story. Maclagan and Russell
and the others-for there are others and
there will be others-can wiring from these
moro than an occasional mean
ing or music. But In ten years he may DO
the pontif Of q new ~dispensation. Mr..
Symons han been wise in the handling Of
his material. After q general and compre-
hensive study of Blake he brings forward
some new records from contemporary
souroes-exfracts from the diary, letters
and "reminiscences Of Henry Crabb Robin
son: from "A Fathers Memoir OF His
by Benjamin Heath Maxim; from
Lady Charlotte Bury's Diary (is20); Blake's
horoscope. obituary notice. extract from
yarley's Zod,soal Physiognomy Cis2s);
. biographical sketch Of Blake by J. T.
Smith (is2s). and Allan Cunningham's life
Of Blake (lS3O). In . word. for those who
cannot spare the time to investigate the
and sundry Balkan sxegstios,
Mir. 6ymons's book IL the best because most
II 10 the Blake question summed
up by . supple hand and . sympathetic
spirit. It 10 inscribed to Augusts Rodin
in the following happy and significant
Ito Auguste Rodin. whose work
10 the marriage Of heaven and hell"