SOURCE: An excerpt in William Blake: The Critical Heritage, edited by G. E. Bentley, Jr., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, pp. 147-55.
The following excerpt appeared as the introduction to Malkin's book, A Father's Memoirs of his Child (1806) and is the earliest published essay on Blake. Malkin's enthusiastic discussion helped Blake's poetry gain acceptance among a wider contemporary audience.
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