The Life Story of an Ambitious Opera Project
摘要
This chapter, written by independent Meyer scholar Peter Knaus with Lisa Gee, offers a life-writing vignette, one that illustrates how Hayley typically worked with friends and professional contacts: an approach in stark contrast to the enduring and Blake-centric image of him as a “well meaning pompous dilettante” (Pinto, V. De S. William Blake: The Visionary Man, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 106, No. 5018 (JANUARY 1958), pp. 74–89, p. 80) that has only recently started to be queried during the twenty-first century.