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The book is by no meansincorrectlyprinted, andit is not probable that Blake would under any circumstanceshave given his poemsmore "revisal" than he did. He did at this time a good deal of engraving, often after the designsof Stothard, whom he was afterwards to accuseof Stealinghis ideas ; and in 1784he had two, and in 1785four, water-colour drawings at the Royal Academy. Fuseli, Stothard, and Flaxman1 seemto have been his chief friends, and it is probable that he also knew Cosway,who practisedmagic, and Cosway may 1 Comparethe lines written in 1800: " I bless thee, O Father of Heaven and Earth, that ever I saw Flagman's face.
I hold it to be wrong. It is the greatsin. It is eatingof the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This was the fault of Plato. He knew nothingbut thevirtues and vices,and good and evil. There is nothingin all that. " And, ashesayswith his excellentcourage: " When I tell the truth it is not for the sakeof convincing those who do not knowit, but for the sakeof defendingthosewho do " ; and, 5* William again,with Still more excellentand hardercourage: " When I am endeavouringto think rightly, I must not regard my own any more than other people's weaknesses" ; so, in his poetry, there is no moral tendency,nothing that might not be poison as well as antidote ; nothing indeed but the absolute affirmation of that energy which is eternal delight.
The poetryof Blakeis a poetryof the mind, abstractin substance, concretein form; its passionis the passionof the imagination, its emotion is the emotion of thought, its beauty is the beautyof idea. " Thereareno menandwomenin the world of Blake'spoetry, onlyprimalinstinctsandthe energies of the imagination. His work beginsin the garden of Eden, or of the childhoodof theworld, andthereis somethingin it of the naivete of beasts : the lines gambolawkwardly,like young lambs. His utteranceof the Stateof innocencehasin it something of the grotesqueness of babies,andenchantsthe grown man, astheydo.