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Who will Dare to Say that Polite
Art is Encouraged or Either Wished
or Tolerated in a Nation where
The Society for the Encouragement
of Art Suffered Barry to give
them his Labour for Nothing
A Society composed of the
Flower of the English Nobility
& Gentry ________ Suffering
an Artist to Starve while he
Supported Really what They
under pretence of Encouraging were
Endeavoring to Depress.-- Barry
told me that while he Did that
Work he Lived on Bread & Apples
Editorial Note:
Blake's reference "that Work" may be The Progress of Human Knowledge.
Written first in pencil and later pen. This suggest different reading and annotating moments.
Art is Encouraged or Either Wished
or Tolerated in a Nation where
The Society for the Encouragement
of Art Suffered Barry to give
them his Labour for Nothing
A Society composed of the
Flower of the English Nobility
& Gentry ________ Suffering
an Artist to Starve while he
Supported Really what They
under pretence of Encouraging were
Endeavoring to Depress.-- Barry
told me that while he Did that
Work he Lived on Bread & Apples
Editorial Note:
Blake's reference "that Work" may be The Progress of Human Knowledge.
Written first in pencil and later pen. This suggest different reading and annotating moments.
