BLAKE, WILLIAM]. BINYON, LAURENCE. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "William Blake; Painter, Poet, Seer." [No place, no date]. 19 pages, 4to, written in ink on rectos only, cloth slipcase. A not uninteresting piece by the poet, art critic, and Blake authority. A representative passage: "...Like other men of genius, Blake was an apparition 'born out of his time.' But while others seem to have appeared one century or two centuries too early or too late, he seems to alight on 18th century England across whole centuries of time. He is primitive beyond the primitives; his natural speech & habit were those of some fabled Arcadia, or still more aboriginal. He has a kind of innocent nudity of spirit, impatient of the mental clothes which others wear as things of course. His verse is happiest when it is a sort of exclamation, careless of the links of speech & elaboration of grammar. He sees the world as the earliest artists saw it, & as children see it, in few & definite outlines, with simple & definite colours. As his mind grew & took in the pity & terror of the world, his imagination goes back to the antique East, whence all the religions of the world have come, & conjures from the unknown shapes of dreams strangely resembling the mythic creatures that people Eastern art..."
BLAKE, WILLIAM]. BINYON, LAURENCE. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "William Blake; Painter, Poet, Seer." [No place, no date]. 19 pages, 4to, written in ink on rectos only, cloth slipcase. A not uninteresting piece by the poet, art critic, and Blake authority. A representative passage: "...Like other men of genius, Blake was an apparition 'born out of his time.' But while others seem to have appeared one century or two centuries too early or too late, he seems to alight on 18th century England across whole centuries of time. He is primitive beyond the primitives; his natural speech & habit were those of some fabled Arcadia, or still more aboriginal. He has a kind of innocent nudity of spirit, impatient of the mental clothes which others wear as things of course. His verse is happiest when it is a sort of exclamation, careless of the links of speech & elaboration of grammar. He sees the world as the earliest artists saw it, & as children see it, in few & definite outlines, with simple & definite colours. As his mind grew & took in the pity & terror of the world, his imagination goes back to the antique East, whence all the religions of the world have come, & conjures from the unknown shapes of dreams strangely resembling the mythic creatures that people Eastern art..."
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