Alexander Gilchrist

Alexander Gilchrist

Alexander Gilchrist (1828 – November 30, 1861) was the biographer of William Blake; the biography is still a standard reference work on the poet.

He was born at Newington Green, England, son of a Unitarian minister. Although called to the Bar, Gilchrist took up literary and art criticism as his main pursuits. He settled at Guildford in 1853, where he wrote "Life of William Etty, R.A." In 1856 he became a next-door-neighbour of his supporter Thomas Carlyle at Chelsea, and had all but finished his "The Life of William Blake" when he contracted scarlet fever from one of his children and died.

His wife Anne was his intellectual peer. She helped to complete her husband's "Life of Blake", and survived him by 24 years. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his brother William also contributed to the completion of the book.

ee also

*"The Life of William Blake", edited and with an introduction by W. Graham Robinson. ISBN 0-486-40005-0 (Dover).


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