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ItemFrom the religious to the psychological sublime: the fate of Young's Night Thoughts in Blake's The Four Zoas(Locust Hill Press, 2002)Blake's 537 watercolor drawings to Young's Night Thoughts were produced between 1795 and 1797. He began work on The Four Zoas toward the end of this period, in 1796 or 1797. This temporal proximity, along with the profound formal and thematic influence of Night Thoughts on The Four Zoas, explains in part why the watercolors that illustrate the former frequently seem to allude to events detailed in the latter.
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ItemGothic fiction: introduction(Adam Matthew Publications, 2003)It seems appropriate that the Sadleir-Black collection of Gothic fictions, a genre peppered with illicit passions, should be described by its progenitor as the fruit of lust. Michael Sadleir (1888-1957), the person who cultivated this passion, was a noted bibliographer, book collector, publisher and creative writer. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, Sadleir joined the office of the publishers Constable and Company in 1912, becoming Director in 1920. He published seven reasonably successful novels; important biographical studies of Trollope, Edward and Rosina Bulwer, and Lady Blessington; and a number of ground-breaking bibliographical works, most significantly Excursions in Victorian Bibliography (1922) and XIX Century Fiction (1951). According to Sadleir, the roots of his "mania" for Gothic Romance lay in his "youthful enthusiasm" for Baudelaire and Mallarmé. These writers were "profound admirers of Edgar Allan Poe". Following in their footsteps, Sadleir read Poe's gothic stories and so was led to "the work of Charles Brockden Brown; and from Brown to the English, German and French romances of the 'Terror' school".
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ItemEntertaining the Supernatural: Animal Magnetism, Spiritualism, Secular Magic and Psychical Science(Adam Matthew Publications, 2008)