![]() He shows that often rhymes that appear to be half-rhymes or eye-rhymes are likely much more often than modern pronunciations might suggest in Blake’s speech to have been full rhymes.”- Prof. ![]() “Here Bentley’s findings, which, with his usual impeccable scholarship, draw on eighteenth-century lexicography as well as a lifetime’s work on Blake and Blakeana, at their most interesting and original. ![]() Especially in quoting the “ancients,” the band of young artists who brightened Blake’s later years, Bentley conveys a vivid sense of what it must have been like to converse with Blake at his most sociable, “so entertaining and pleasant, possessing such novel thoughts and eccentric notions, together with such jocose hilarity and amiable demeanor, that he frequently found himself asked to stay to dinner.” At this latter-day gathering to honor the quotable Blake, Bentley is the ideal host.” “As presenter of conversational Blake, Bentley loosens the buttons of his formal scholarly persona, making the rounds of friendly introductions, genially engaging the reader with jokes about his own pronunciations and colloquialisms, and unobtrusively stepping aside to invite Blake to say whatever he’d like. ![]()
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