The Mental Travellers: On Blake’s Reception by Nikolai Gumilyov

Abstract

William Blake drew the attention of the influential Russian poet and literary critic Nikolai Gumilyov (1886–​1921). Gumilyov was the first to translate “The Mental Traveller” into another language, in the period from 1918 to 1921, and his late poetry contains many traces of Blakean influence.