Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander GilchristLIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical series edited by Richard Holmes that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrists The Life of William Blake is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. This was the first biography of William Blake ever written, at a time when the great visionary poet and painter was generally forgotten, ridiculed or dismissed as insane. Wonderfully vivid and outspoken