![A title page for "The Grave." Along the bottom of the page is an illustration of a reclining skeleton looking up into a trumpet being blown by an upside-down nude man.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbj1Jgw6ehyphenhyphenN5O7oV9heUFsEmBx9Hy6ihZ5GpGECagCCFm2_Z27VzZ99BDigSeHcVZTQ3wkqnE_BnGtZ2hpOOVnwpk-hHsRloP2PIVyIqspgh1OMvUvB47LkNcsI51N0pqU3OMQ1KFdA/s200/Blaketp.jpg)
The book had an impressive list of subscribers, including the queen (who received a dedicatory poem by Blake). It was a bold move: Blake was still relatively unknown, while Blair's poem was standard reading. But in fact, Blake overwhelms the poem and takes over the book -- even putting his own portrait on the frontispiece in the place that should have been reserved for Blair.
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