[“Blake’s Last Picture”]
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Minute Particulars
Mr. Leslie Parris of the Tate Gallery sends us a copy of “Blake’s Last Picture,” a hitherto unnoticed poem by George Powell Thomas (Poems, London, 1847). According to a footnote by the author, the poem is based on a passage in Allan Cunningham’s Lives of the Painters. The poem is some 100 lines long and, as Mr. Parris says, “a feeble effort.” Thomas was, according to his title page, a Captain in the Bengal Army and author of Views of Simla. “So far as I know,” Mr. Parris writes, “he was no relative of the Joseph Thomas I’ve been working on recently.”