![]() ![]() A small academic industry continues to publish theses and research papers dedicated to Blake, carving out new areas of research (recently: Queer Blake, ‘ Sexy Blake‘) while continuing to mine older debates. ![]() And yet, somehow, in the two centuries since his death, Blake has acquired mass appeal. ![]() His greatest success, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, still sold less than thirty copies. Blake’s books didn’t need techniques of mass production, since his readers were so few. It is startling to think that the work many consider to be his greatest achievement, Jerusalem, was printed using an original method of mass production of Blake’s own design, yet sold as few as five copies in his lifetime. Rarely has any artist gone from total obscurity to global acceptance as surely as William Blake-albeit that his triumph was some time coming. ![]()
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