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William Blake and the Hunt Circle

2011; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/srm.2011.0039

2330-118X

Wayne C. Ripley,

Catholicism and Religious Studies

William Blake and the Hunt Circle Wayne C. Ripley (bio) Wayne C. Ripley Winona State University Wayne C. Ripley Wayne C. Ripley is Associate Professor of English at Winona State University in Minnesota. He has co-edited Editing Blake (Romantic Circles) with Justin Van Kleeck. His work on Blake has appeared in Blake / An Illustrated Quarterly and Notes and Queries. He is currently working on a study of Edward Young and William Blake. Footnotes 1. Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Nicholas Roc, ed., Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics (New York: Routledge, 2003); Michael Eberle-Smatra, Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805–1828 (New York: Routledge, 2005). 2. Jon Mee, Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 5. 3. Mee, Romanticism, 274. 4. The most comprehensive account of Blake during this period remains Dennis M. Read, “The Context of Blake’s ‘Public Address’: Cromek and The Chalcographic Society,” Philological Quarterly 6o (1981): 69–86 and “The Rival Canterbury Pilgrims of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet,” Modern Philology 86 (1988): 171–90. 5. Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence, ed. Thomas Sadler, 2 vols. (Boston: Fields, 1870), 1:201. 6. Robert Hunt, “Fine Arts,” The Examiner, July 31, 1808, 492. 7. G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 156n. Hereafter cited by page as Records. 8. Leigh Hunt, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries, 2 vols. (New York: Harper, 1850), 1:223. 9. Hugo Twist, “Indecent Prints,” The Examiner, August 7, 1808, 510. 10. Philosophus, “Quacks,” The Examiner, August 28, 1808, 558. 11. William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman (New York: Raαdom House, 1988), 528. 12. Erdman, Poetry, 866. 13. Erdman, Poetry, 505. Cromek’s first signed piece for The Examiner was his “Account of Mr. Schiavonetti” on July 1, 1810. Read cites a March 13, 1810 letter from the patron Thomas Hope to Cromek, which gives substantiating evidence that Cromek and Robert Hunt were working together as early as March (“Cromek,” 71). After the Chalcographic Society dissolved in 1811, the collaboration waned quickly, and Cromek died in 1812. 14. Erdman, Poetry, 504. 15. Robert Hunt, “Fine Arts,” The Examiner, 730–31. 16. “Fine Arts,” May 20, 1810, 315. 17. Read, “Cromek,” 72. 18. Read, “Cromek,” 69. 19. Erdman, Poetry, 572. His emendations throughout. 20. Read, “Cromek,” 80. 21. The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 156 and 219–32. 22. Erdman, Poetry, 501. For Blake’s relationship to Southcott, see Morton D. Paley, “William Blake, the Prince of the Hebrews, and the Woman Clothed with the Sun,” in William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, eds. Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), 260–93. Flaxman relayed the anecdote of Sharp’s proselytizing to Robinson in 1815, which suggests the lingering currency of the topic to the Hunt circle. 23. Read, “Canterbury Pilgrims,” 188. 24. Kenneth E. Kendall, Leigh Hunt’s Reflector (The Hague: Mouton, 1971), 6r. By this date, Lamb had already heard of Blake through Robinson, who had taken him and Mary to Blake’s exhibition in June 1810(Bentley, Records, 299). John Beer has recently pointed out some of the connections among Lamb, Coleridge, and Blake m “Lamb, Coleridge, and Blake” m The Charles Lamb Bulletin 136 (2006): 105–6. 25. Kendall, Reflector, 21. 26. “Account of a Familiar Spirit,” The Reflector 1, no. 1 (1810–11). In 1814, The Analytical Magazine published the article in Philadelphia, providing an early American reference to Blake. “Account of a Familiar Spirit,” The Analytical Magazine 4 (Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1814): 313–26. 27. 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxton, 1840), 2:44–49. 28. Hunt, “Familiar Spirit,” 87. 29. Hunt, “Familiar Spirit,” 88. 30. Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs. Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision (London: Century...