 | Alexander Gilchrist - 1863 - 460 pages
...famous poet. ' There is something in the madness of this man,' declared he (to Mr. Crabb Robinson), ' which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott.' Of his Designs, Fuseli and Flaxman, men not to be imposed on in such matters, but themselves sensitive... | |
 | 1865 - 538 pages
...never forgotten, and sunned by warm friendships of youth which never die. WILLIAM BLAKE. THE lile of a most extraordinary man has recently appeared, and...pictures." Who is the unknown genius that is praised eo highly, and what has he done Î The answer is given in two goodly volumes, to which three ardent... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1867 - 614 pages
...as well as painter, of whom Wordsworth said : — ' There is ' something in the madness of this man which interests me ' more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott.' Whether Lamb ever met Blake does not appear, but he expressed a high opinion of the artist's powers... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
..."There is something in the madness of this man," Wordsworth once declared to Mr. Henry Crabb Robinson, " which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Charles Lamb's appreciation of him is expressed in these words : " Blake is a real name, I assure you... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience he said, " There is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Coleridge was the only man of the shining company with whom he ever had any real intimacy of mind,... | |
 | 1900 - 532 pages
...whole Though stretched from sky to sky, By MR HOSTE. "There is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Such was Wordsworth's opinion of Blake, expressed after reading the "Songs of Innocence and Experience."... | |
 | Kurt Lienemann - 1908 - 276 pages
...of innocence' und 'Songs of experience' bemerkte W: "There is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott" (H. Morley, Introduction zur W- Ausg. S. 50). Wichtig wurde Blake für W infolge seiner großen Liebe... | |
 | Ian C. Hannah - 1912 - 484 pages
...undoubtedly the production of insane genius, but there is something in the madness of this man that interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Others, particularly Swinburne, have spoken even more eulogistically of his work. One understands why... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 492 pages
...Robinson : There is no doubt this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man •which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott. Landor shrewdly wished that Wordsworth and Blake could have ' divided ' Blake's madness between them... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 388 pages
...Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience he said, " There is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Coleridge was the only member of the shining company with whom he ever had any real intimacy of mind,... | |
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There is no doubt this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott! 
