Tennyson Doodling
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Title page of Tennyson’s copy of Blake’s Poetical Sketches (1783/1868) ‘Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd (London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1868) (AT/571)’
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Evidence of Tennyson’s active engagement with Blake’s images and words can be found in his copy of Poetical Sketches (1783/1868).
If you set the title page beside that of the Book of Job title page you can see that the doodle echoes Blake’s design.
Taken together these sketches conjure up a vivid picture of Tennyson reading and studying Blake.
