From: David Latane <[log in to unmask]>
> Everyone who cared about
> poetry in 1667 knew that PL was the thing, and the sales were actually
> good. The poem was reissued in 1668 and 1669.
The 1668 issue was more a re-edition (turning ten books into twelve) than a
reissue, but your point holds.
Blake is another matter -- STC somewhere in the _Biographia Literaria_
remarks that he's come on this totally brill pome called "The Tyger", but
apparently didn't bother to walk down the street to meet the author.
Blake appears incrementally in Palgrave -- One in 1, Five by 5 -- but the
turning-point was probably the Yeats edition near the turn of the last
century. Before that, nobaby cared.
Which is truly unusual -- Blake (along with The Blessed Emily) is one of the
few Potes who +weren't+ (like Pope and Byron) Famous In Their Own Time.
Robin
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