id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9061 Night-Thoughts - Wikipedia .html text/html 1245 166 74 A page from Night-Thoughts, illustrated by William Blake Night-Thoughts had a very high reputation for many years after its publication, but is now best known for a major series of illustrations by William Blake in 1797. In his 1791 book, Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell called Night-Thoughts "the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced". William Blake was commissioned in 1795 to illustrate Night-Thoughts for a major new edition of the poem to be published by Richard Edwards. Because the principal evidence of Blake's work on these illustrations was the comparatively short series of engravings, art history has been slow to recognise the significance of the project within Blake's Ĺ“uvre. In 1980, the Oxford University Press began publication of a projected five-volume scholarly edition of Blake's version of Night-Thoughts, edited by J. Digital Scans of Blake's illustrations of Night Thoughts from the William Blake Archive Illustrations for Night-Thoughts ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9061.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9061.txt