all great writers have written of him. Blake's comment
below was : — " I believe both Macpherson & Chatterton,
that what they say is ancient is so." & in the following
page : " I own myself an admirer of Ossian equally with
any other poet whatever, Rowley & Chatterton also."
And at the end of this Essay he wrote ^' It appears to me as
if the last paragraph beginning *^ Is it the result of the
whole " & it [?] was written by another hand & mind from
the rest of these Prefaces : they are the opinions of [blank
in MS.] landscape painter. Imagination is the divine vision
not of the World, nor of Man, nor from Man as he is a
natural man, but only as he is a spiritual Man. Imagina-
tion has nothing to do with Memory." i*3*52*

In the No : of the Gents. Magazine for last Jan. [1852]
there is a letter by Cromek to Blake, printed in order to
convict B[lake] of selfishness. It cannot possibly be sub-
stantially true. I may elsewhere notice it.
It was, I believe on the 7th of December that I saw him
last. I had just heard of the death of Flaxman, a man
whom he professed to admire, & was curious how he wd.
