William Blake in the worlds of Art and Literature has greatly changed. As a poet he stands on a level with his peers, yet apart from them a lonely voice before the dawn ;the singer of the silent hour, before a wonderful burst of lyric melody hailed the birth of the nineteenth century. As a painter his fame has spread more slowly, owing to the difficulty of seeing his works, which are still, for the most part, in private collections :nevertheless they now find an ever-widening circle of admirers. Every scrap of Blake slong-neglected writings is eagerly sought for and discussed; the despised pictures emerge from the cellars and attics where they have spent the greater part of a century and find their way into salerooms, with results highly gratifying to their bewildered owners. William Blake has come to his own at last, extolled alike by poets and painters as one of the supreme magicians of le pen and the brush. For, in the case of this artist, his two chosen forms of expression must be studied side by side ;B lake the poet and Blake the painter must both speak to us in their different languages, the one amplifying and sustaining the other, until we begin to know the third Blake, Blake the ir, the philosopher, and the teacher.
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