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blake-179	Crosby, Mark	G. E. Bentley, Jr., William Blake in the Desolate Market	2016		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	1417	46	48	From the outset, Bentley is clear that much of the information presented in William Blake in the Desolate Market is drawn from his earlier work on Blake, specifically Blake Records (2nd ed., 2004), Blake Books (1977), Blake Books Supplement (1995), and “William Blake and His Circle,” published annually in Blake. While such a view is restated at the beginning of William Blake in the Desolate Market with Bentley’s claim that Blake was “most comfortable living in his imagination” rather than in “the world of pence and penury” (3), the information that Bentley has marshaled, particularly the amount of money earned over the first twenty-five years or so of Blake’s professional career, suggests a rather different William Blake: a highly skilled engraver frequently attuned to a developing marketplace, who explored numerous commercial opportunities with varying degrees of economic success.	cache/blake-179.htm	txt/blake-179.txt