Blake as a painter

William Blake the designer: The reception of Robert Blair's “Graveˮ in Serbia

“…18 18 See: Damon (1963), Essick and Paley (1982), Erle (2017), Butlin (2002), Bindman (2003), Bentley (2001), etc. …”

“…A similar thing had happened before, when he was illustrating Young's Night Thoughts (1795–1797) and the poems by Thomas Gray (1797–1798). Blake's design for Young's Night Thoughts is, according to David Bindman (2003, p. 95), “Blake's first attempt to make illustrations act as a commentary that ‘corrects’ the text.” On another side, in his research of Blake's illustrations of the poems of another Graveyard poet, Thomas Gray, the scholar Lussier shares similar views. He applied Lacan's psychoanalitical theory, claiming that through his design, Blake had “deconstructedˮ Gray's poem (Lussier, 1989, p. 206).…”