Alexander Gilchrist
Videos
Alexander Gilchrist, an English author, is known mainly as a biographer of William Etty and of William Blake. Gilchrist's biography of Blake is still a standard reference work about the poet.
Gilchrist: "Life of William Blake" 1863, title page.
Life of William Blake
Videos
The Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With selections from his poems and other writings is a two-volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in 1863. The first vo
Alexander Gilchrist
…neighbour of his friend Thomas Carlyle at Chelsea and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, both of them notable writers. Gilchrist had all but finished his Life of William Blake when he contracted scarlet fever from one of his children and died. His wife Anne helped to complete the Life (his magnum opus), and survived him by…
cover for the 1880 edition