William Blake

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Excerpt from William Blake: His Life Character and Genius After the greater part of this work was written, I learned through a friend of the existence of two ladies, daughters of William John Blake, of South ampton, who claim to be second cousins of William Blake, the subject of this work. Their father always spoke of the poet and artist as his near kinsman, and his widow left a document in which she traces the family back, through Admiral Blake, to a re mote period of English history. This William John Blake was the son of a William Blake, whose father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were John Blakes. The family was originally settled in Somersetshire, to which county Admiral Blake belonged, but one branch of it subsequently migrated to Wilts, and it was from this branch that the poet was descended. In a work on Blake's art, upon which I am now engaged, I propose to give as full details of the pedigree as can be obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.