Bernard Shaw's debt to William Blake

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This book was an essay of the same name, by Irving Fiske,my father, who had a correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. This article (and a later one, called "My Correspondence with G.B.S." first appeared in The Shavian. I In any case, Shaw called this article "the best thing ever written about me" (Fiske Family Papers, Rochester, Vermont). I have the original of this letter in my possession. He then had the article re-published as a little book, or a "Shavian Tract." Irving also had copies of the book pubished and we used to travel with it in our little trailer, my family and I, as we drove back and forth from Vermont to Florida each year. In 1979, a friend, James Drougas, asked to reprint it and I wrote a short biographical note, which, I must state, was heavily edited by Irving. A picture of Blake, drawn by my mother, Barbara (Isabella) Hall Fiske (later Calhoun), appeared on the cover along with the original picture of Shaw provided by the Shavian Society. I am thinking of publishing it again. Ladybelle Fiske/ Isabella Fiske McFarlin [link text][1] [1]: http://quarryhillcreativecenter.blogspot.com