Blake was not merely a poet, but a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to collect and discuss all of the writings in one volume. Topics include his opinions on his predecessors and his contemporaries, his reaction to critics, and his artistic intentions. This valuable addition to Blake scholarship includes reproductions of all the extant drawings and paintings in Blake's one exhibition of 1809, plus reproductions of other prose texts by Blake.]