author
Charles Gardner
b. 1874
Best known for writing about William Blake, this early 20th-century author approached literature with a lively interest in spiritual and philosophical questions. His books helped introduce readers to Blake not just as a poet and artist, but as a visionary thinker.
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William Blake, the Man
by Charles Gardner
About the author
Very little biographical information about this Charles Gardner could be confirmed from reliable sources available online, beyond the fact that library and digitized-book records identify him as an author born in 1874.
His surviving work suggests a writer deeply engaged with religion, imagination, and literary interpretation. He wrote Vision & Vesture: A Study of William Blake in Modern Thought and later William Blake: The Man, both centered on Blake's life, ideas, and lasting influence. Another work, The Redemption of Religion, shows that his interests also extended beyond literary criticism into explicitly religious reflection.
Taken together, these books present him as a thoughtful interpreter of faith and literature whose work belongs to the world of early 20th-century religious and literary studies. Because standard biographical sources appear to offer little more than basic catalog details, many personal facts about his life remain unclear.