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William Blake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Hubert J. Norman
Hubert J. Norman*
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Camberwell House, S.E.
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The association between the artistic temperament and eccentricity has frequently been noted, and in the lives of Turner, Vandyck, Michael Angelo, Benvenuto Cellini, Morland, Romney, Maclise, Landseer, Haydon, Cosway, and many others there is much to support Nisbet's contention that “nerve-disorder is a fundamental element of genius in relation to colour and form.” To the list already given, the name of William Blake may fittingly be added, for, just as some of those named at times passed the boundary which separates sanity from insanity, so most certainly did Blake also cross the borderland.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 61 , Issue 253 , April 1915, pp. 198 - 244
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1915 

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