Blake's overly literal reading of classical authorities on Eros had disastrous consequences.

Blake's overly literal reading of classical authorities on Eros had disastrous consequences.
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Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 27 March 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Blake’s overly literal reading of classical authorities on Eros had…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-ſeventh day of March, 2013. Finis.

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