'Night the Third Narcissa', title-page from the 'Nights' of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, c1797. Artist: William Blake

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'Night the Third Narcissa', title-page from the 'Nights' of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, c1797. In 1795 the bookseller Richard Edwards commissioned Blake to illustrate the nine 'Nights' of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, a popular meditative poem first published in 1742-1745.

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