Abstract

In Poetical Sketches, Blake's first collection, Blake attempted to search for a perspective through imitating several different models across both the 18th century and the Elizabethan era. In this collection, Shakespeare's presence was made known explicitly, whereas in Blake's later and more mature works, Shakespeare was to be integrated implicitly and even transformed. In ‘To Spring’, the collection's first poem, Blake exhibits his debt to the Elizabethan verse wherein he is evidently attempting to imitate Shakespeare and his contemporaries' lyrical language. In ‘Fair Elenor’, Blake emulates Shakespeare's Macbeth which plays no small part in the rise of gothic imagination. This chapter is able to identify Blake's works wherein he indicates patronage to Shakespeare.

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