Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973
Sturm und Drang
By Hugh Honour
The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli
by Peter Tomory
Praeger, 255, 267 plates pp., $25.00
Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray
by Irene Tayler
Princeton University Press, 170, 117 plates pp., $25.00
There is more than a touch of irony in the relationship between Henry Fuseli and William Blake—between the fiery little cosmopolitan Swiss who became Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in London and the peculiarly English, entirely independent, violently anti-academic poet and visionary. They moved in much the same social circle but differed from each other too widely and on too many issues to become close friends. Yet Blake had a fond regard for Fuseli,
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