Amazon.com description: Product Description: ENGLAND has produced a number of artists who have dealt with the superhuman and allegorical, but none have equalled in brilliancy William Blake, one of art's unique geniuses. Belonging to no set school, defying classification, developing his own method, and at times impatient of the restraint of convention, Blake flashes across the firmament of art like a bolt of lightning. His was not the ordinary mind or eye; rather he was so sensitive to impressions, so much a “seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams” that many have called him insane. Like other great men of genius, he did several things well, for he made serious contributions to the realm of poetry as well as that of art. In his day, Blake was misunderstood and neglected. Today, our museums treasure his works and rightly so, collectors vie with each other in the auction room for the possession of even his slightest sketch, and artists copy his style, though lacking his temperament or genius.
–Bulletin of the Museum of Art, Vol. 9 [1921]