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Record 13501

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 of first Edition".
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
county: London
specific address: Hercules Road, Lambeth
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:William Blake
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Nov 1757
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Engraver and Poet
Religion: Non-Conformist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Francis Bacon
Title: Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47
Genre: Philosophy, Education
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13501  
Source - Print  
  Author: William Blake
  Editor: Geoffrey Keynes
  Title: The Letters of William Blake: with related documents
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 9
  Additional comments: Letter 7 from Blake to Dr Trusler, written from Lambeth

Citation: William Blake, Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), The Letters of William Blake: with related documents (Oxford, 1980), p. 9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13501, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

Blake actually gives a page reference here. This is very unusual in his letters.

 

 

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