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The Grave (poem)

Death's Door by William Blake, an illustration for The Grave. The "resting youth" figure at the top can also be seen (with variations in inking, colouring, and background) in several of Blake's prior works. It appears on plate 21 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in America, and in plate 4 of Jerusalem.[1] The figure of the old man at the bottom also occurs elsewhere, as an illustration, also entitled Death's Door for Blake's own For Children: The Gates of Paradise, as well as in plate 12 of America. There is a similar figure of an old man, on one crutch and being helped through the streets by a young child, in London and in Jerusalem.[1] The first time that Blake put both figures together, as here, was in a pencil sketch that dates to the time of America. They also appear together in a further (undated) pencil sketch, traced over in ink, with a pyramid in the background.[1]

"The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair.[2] It is the work for which he is primarily renowned.[2][3] According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Philip Doddridge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister.[2] Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stated that it was composed whilst Blair was still a student, although "probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement."[3] The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry.[4]

Part of the poem's continued prominence in scholarship involves a later printing of poems by Robert Hartley Cromek which included illustrations completed by the Romantic poet and illustrator William Blake. He completed forty illustrations for the poem, twenty of which were printed in Cromek's edition.[5][6][7] Blake's original watercolours for the prints were believed lost, until they were rediscovered in 2003.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Makdisi 2003, p. 121.
  2. ^ a b c Davenport 1822, p. 199.
  3. ^ a b Johnstone 1827, p. 135.
  4. ^ a b Crawford 2008, p. 261.
  5. ^ Yoder 2001, p. 26.
  6. ^ Review 1864, p. 51.
  7. ^ Snart 2006, p. 77.

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