The aesthetics of Blake's drawing and engraving

Blake combines both poet and painter. Following the early recognition of this fact by Joseph Wicksteed, and the recent work done by Geoffrey Keynes, Anthony Blunt, and Jean Hagstrum, there is an attempt here to show that the aesthetics of the draftsman-engraver influence the poet. The poet cannot be understood without the aesthetics of the draftsman-engraver.