ENG 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chimney Sweep, Speedstep, The Sick Rose
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Born to a working class family (but a fairly affluent family) Professional engraver: how he earned his living, with the assistance of william haley who gave him housing. Father was a hosier (tailor) not a labours class. Home schooled by mother before attending the royal academy. Cononical (cannon): he was from the local cannon, the widely accept. He knew that he had a great mind, he knew that he was special. He use to have visions (4 was his first one) visions were of angels and trees. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not wroth my care the widest of the ancients considered what is not too explicit as the fittest for instruction, because it rouzes the faculties to act. I name moses, solomon, esop, homer, plato. (to trusler 1799) Painted all of the pages in water colours, and eventually his wife began to help him, and they hand stitched his volumes by hand.
