Blake's Indebtedness to Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley
Abstract
The direct influences which affected the poetry of William Blake have not been ignored in the vast critical writings which have appeared in recent years upon that poet. That Poetical Sketches were definitely affected by the Elizabethan lyric poets is fairly obvious to the reader and has been universally accepted. There is also a secondary influence upon these poems, viz., that of Macpherson and Chatterton. Blake himself is quoted by Crabb Robinson as saying of the latter two: "I own myself an admirer of Ossian equally with any poet whatever. Rowley and Chatterton, also."
Subject Area
British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Thomas J, "Blake's Indebtedness to Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley" (1936). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28927928.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28927928
