Life of William Blake
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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
cover for the 1880 edition
Gilchrist: Life of William Blake, 1863, title page
Anne Gilchrist (writer)
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Anne Gilchrist was an English writer, best known for her connection to American poet Walt Whitman.
Life of William Blake
…was left incomplete at Gilchrist's sudden death from scarlet fever in 1861. The work was published two years later, having been completed by his widow Anne Gilchrist with help from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti. The book became the first standard text on Blake and the foundation of the now-extensive…
Mrs. Anne Gilchrist (c. 1882)