[WILKINSON (J. Garth).]

Improvisations from the Spirit.

London, W. White. 1857 First edition. Contemporary polished calf gilt. 16mo. pp. viii, 408. A curious collection of verse in part inspired by William Blake. Gilchrist refers to it in his life of Blake: "...a very singular example of the closest and most absolute resemblance to Blake's poetry may be met with (if only one could meet with it) in a phantasmal sort of little book, published, or perhaps not published, but only printed, some years since, and entitled "Improvisations of the Spirit". It bears no author's name, but was written by Dr. J.J. Garth Wilkinson." In a note Garth Wilkinson explains his method of composition using succeeding impressions, many inspired by "Correspondences" a term used by Swedenborg for the revelations which natural objects bear to spiritual life. Many of the poems have abstract, Blakean titles, while others relate to authors and artists including Charlotte Bronte, Edgar Allen Poe, Turner, Kant and Flaxman. The quote from Gilchrist written on the front free-endpaper. A nice copy. BL and Cambridge in COPAC.

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