Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OMAI, FIRST POLYNESIAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND-Thomas Blake Clark-Colt Press...
Fanny Burney mentions him. Horace Walpole mentions him. Boswell mentions him. But Thomas Blake Clark's handsomely bound and printed book is the first full-length account of Omai (pronounced Oh, My!), the Polynesian Islander, who for two years (1774-76) was "the lyon of lyons" of London drawing rooms...
...using movable type, most printers and publishers have been glad that he simplified their job. But every once in a while some ant-shaming book designer has insisted on doing his printing as if Gutenberg had never existed, engraving each page laboriously by hand. Such a designer was William Blake, who a century and a half ago painstakingly etched a dozen books (with weird, mystical illustrations) on copper plates...
HARVARD 1944 ST. PAUL'S Acker, l.w. r.w., Blake Beebe, c. c., Ordway Burton, r.w. l.w., Carnegie Reeves, l.d. r.d., Harman Cowen, r.d. l.d., Mechem O'Neill, g. g., Coleman...
Only the Elizabethan songs (of which a few are included) approach that, and only one named poet surpasses it. That is William Blake, in his superb Cradle Song, which in this volume is misquoted, and which is neither to, for, from, with, by or about a mother. It is about a baby, and it is written from the point of view of a poet, or possibly a father...