Blake, William, born, 11; baptized, 12; vision at Peckham Rye, 13; books read, 14; learns drawing from Mr Pars, 15; apprenticed to Basire, 17; joins the Academy under Moser, 21; designs _Morning_, or _Glad Day_, 22; falls in love with Polly Wood, 23; marries Catherine Boucher, 24; meets Flaxman, 30; goes to Mrs Mathew's parties, 30; on war, 34-5; lodges at 23 Green Street, 37; moves to 27 Broad Street, 39; nurses Robert, 40; moves to 28 Poland Street, 40; engraves after Stothard, 44; Robert imparts method of engraving, 45; comments on Lavater's Aphorisms, 51; and Swedenborg, 55-80; reads and annotates _Angelic Wisdom_, 62-5; subscribes his name to tenets of the New Church, 66; on Swedenborg, 72; takes leave of Swedenborg, 80; among the rebels, 89; wears the _bonnet rouge_, 89; on sex, 94-6; moves to 13 Hercules Buildings, 98; engraves _Europe: A Prophecy_, 99, 101; illustrates Bürger's _Lenore_, 111; goes to Felpham, 117; paints miniatures, 119-21; learns Greek from Hayley, 121; returns to London, 127; South Molton Street, 127; vision clears after visit to Truchsess gallery, 129; and Sir J. Reynolds, 156-9; writes descriptive catalogue, 161; and Chaucer, 162-3; vision of Jesus Christ, 165-8; new friends, 172; and Varley, 172-3; removes to 3 Fountain Court, Strand, 180; sells his collection of engravings, 180; and Book of Job, 182-86; and Dante, 187; illness, 187; death, 188 Blue-stockings, the, 26-36 Boehme, Jacob, 23, 47, 49, 51, 56, 58, 72, 118, 165, 172 Bond Street, 21 _Book for a Rainy Day_, 30 _Book of Ahania_, 110 _Book of Job_, 181-2 _Book of Los_, 110 _Book of Urizen_, 106 Boucher, Catherine, 24 Bourdon, 129 Bousset, 61 Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, 123 Brahma, 109 Bray, Mrs, 160, 162 Breughel, 129 Brontë, Charlotte, 177 _Brook Kerith_, 178 Brooke, Mrs, 30 Bull and Bush, North End, Hampstead, 174 Bunyan, John, 140 Bürger, 111, 112 Burke, Edmund, 85, 89 Burney, Dr, 29 Burney, Fanny, 28, 42, 85, 86, 170 Butler, Samuel, 166 Butts, Thomas, 121, 124, 125, 127, 132 Calvert, Edward, 175, 176 _Candide_, 28 Caracci, 126 Carter, Mrs, 26, 27, 28, 30 _Castle of Otranto_, 34 Catherine of Siena, St, 53, 133 Chapone, Mrs, 30, 31 Chatterton, 14 Chaucer, 161, 162, 163 Chaucer's _Canterbury Pilgrims_, 159 Chesterfield, Lord, _Letters to his Son_, 27 Christ, 152 _Christ and the Woman of Samaria_, 176 _Clod, the_, 104 Coleridge, S. T., 82, 170 Collins' Farm, North End, Hampstead, 174 Correggio, 126, 172 Cosmos, the, 134, 147, 183, 185 Cowper, W., 82, 116, 123, 124, 130 _Cowper, Life of_, 130 _Crime and Punishment_, 98 Croce, Benedetto, 193 Cromek, Robert Hartley, 154-6, 159, 160, 165 Cumberland, George, 172