William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's "Night Thoughts": A Complete Edition Volumes I and II
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This book is so huge, it should only be looked at with clean hands so its big pages won't start sticking together. God, death, identity, and Narcissa struggle in this second edition 1742) of Night Thoughts by Edward Young with illustrations, at least some of which were furnished by William Blake. At the end are some proof sheets that were used by William Blake to create some handwritten poem, Vala, which might have been engraved for a page of a work that was part of William Blake's original poetic response to his own times, which included revolutions in America (1776) and France (1989) that had some still mopping up reigns of terror afterwards. Blake planned a long poem on the French Revolution, but what happened after Blake completed the first book was so much worse than Blake had imagined, Night Thoughts by Edward Young did not teach Blake everything about motion in the future.