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Article: The A-Z of William Blake Y IS FOR YOUNG'S `NIGHT THOUGHTS'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2000
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One of Blake's earliest full-scale commissions came from Richard
Edwards of New Bond Street, who engaged Blake in 1796 to illustrate a
lavish edition of the immensely popular poem "Night Thoughts", by
Edward Young (1683-1765). Almost forgotten by subsequent centuries
(though the surrealists had a kind word for him), Young was in his
day considered one of the greatest of all poets, and "Night Thoughts"
- largely a collection of pieties about mortality and immortality -
was a hit of international proportions, giving rise to an entire
poetic movement, the so-called "Graveyard School". Blake had no time
whatsoever for most of Young's avowed beliefs, but it did not seem to
cramp his energies: he ...
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