![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot, Sir Isaac Newton, Edgar Allen Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, J.M.W. And he’s written biographies of Charles Dickens, T.S. He’s retold the stories of the legend of King Arthur and The Canterbury Tales. ![]() He’s in the process of writing a multi-volume history of England. Amateur historian and biographer he may be, but few living writers today can equal his output, erudition, and insight. Damrosch used Ackroyd’s biography in his own research, and calls it one of the best ever written about Blake.īlake: A Biography is classic Ackroyd, whom we in the United States would call a popular as opposed to academic writer but who occupies a different position in Britain. Although the two works are separated by 20 years (Ackroyd’s in 1995 and Damrosch’s in 2015), they form a cohesive understanding of Blake and his work. British writer, historian, biographer and novelist Peter Ackroyd, and Harvard professor Leo Damrosch, have both written studies of the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827). ![]()
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