blake: A Pathfinder

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• Translating Blake’s Jerusalem into Polish by Borkowska, Eliza (2012) - I would like to explain the motivation behind our project, speak about the obstacles, and share the encouragements, establishing a context for this testimony of a builder of a replica with some reflections concerning the history of Polish Blake translations. [Poems and Writings of William Blake] (2007) the largest selection so far: pls. 1, 3, 10.7-15.20, 16.61-69, 27, 38[43].1-54, 42.19-46, 52, 70.1-71.9, 74.1-13, 77 (in its entirety), 84.29-85.13, 90.1-91.30, and 94.1-99.5 (90-136). Keywords: blake; english; fostowicz; fragments; jerusalem; milton; poetry; polish; reader; translator; william
• Blake’s Hebrew Calligraphy by Shiff, Abraham Samuel (2022) - The exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum of William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun” (Sept. 2009–Jan. 2010) provided an opportunity to examine closely Blake’s Hebrew calligraphy. 1. Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of William Blake (New York: Grolier Club, 1921), “Appendix III: Letters Hitherto Uncollected, Letter 23,” 451. Keywords: angel; blake; book; characters; english; god; hebrew; illus; image; job; left; letter; line; lord; new; right; satan; use; william; word
• Deciphering Blake’s “The Angel that presided o’er my birth” by Ullrich, David W. (2022) - In Slaughterhouse-Five the narrator states (by way of Kilgore Trout) that “William Blake” was “[Eliot] Rosewater’s favorite poet” (99), and in a 1977 interview in the Paris Review Vonnegut specifically notes, “I was thirty-five before I went crazy about Blake.”Vonnegut His manifesto is identified in Vonnegut’s text only as “a poem by William Blake” (65).Eliot’s father offers a rebuttal to his son’s manifesto by quoting “another poem by Blake” (65), stanza 3 of “The Clod & the Pebble.” Keywords: angel; blake; creature; erdman; king; live; love; notebook; poem; thing; william
• “Life exhal’d in milky fondness”—Becoming a Mother in William Blake’s The Book of Thel by Łuczyńska-Hołdys, Małgorzata (2013) - Within The Book of Thel pl. 1 is similar to a certain extent, but in comparison with the last plate it is still easier to find parallels with the text; Erdman suggests that “both the eagle man and the armed man adumbrate the ‘fighting men in ambush’ that haunt Thel in Plate 6” (The Illuminated Blake 35). Erdman discerns this similarity and goes on to ask: “And we might wonder how Thel would regard the bud (which gets in her way in Thel ii) if she could see the present scene in the open blossom?” Keywords: blake; book; child; clod; design; female; infant; lilly; mother; plate; text; thel; william; william blake; world
• “another, but far more amiable enthusiast”: References to Catherine and William Blake in the Literary Gazette and La Belle Assemblée (1830) by Whitehead, Angus (2013) - He has published a number of papers on Blake, most recently “‘an excellent saleswoman’: The Last Years of Catherine Blake” (Blake) and is coeditor (with Mark Crosby and Troy Patenaude) of a collection of essays exploring a range of new critical approaches to William Blake, Re-envisioning Blake (2012). This note first discusses a reader’s query, in all probability written in response to one of these reviews, concerning the whereabouts of Catherine Blake, then goes on to record another review of volume 2 of Cunningham’s Lives, which makes several new references to William Blake. Keywords: belle; blake; catherine; cunningham; william
• Blake’s Priestly Blessing: God Blesses Job by Shiff, Abraham Samuel (2014) - “William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians.” 2. Ritual Not pertinent to this analysis are the pencil sketch for the design and the New Zealand set (see Illustrations of the Book of Job by William Blake fascicles IV and V and, for the sketch, the William Blake Archive [Drawings and Paintings, Pencil Sketches, Sketchbook Containing Drawings for the Engraved Illustrations to the Book of Job, object 23]). Keywords: arms; blake; blessing; book; fingers; god; hands; hebrew; illus; illustrations; job; library; london; new; plate; priest; ritual; william; york
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2013 by Essick, Robert N. (2014) - A hand-colored copy of the 1808 quarto ed. is in the Huntington Library, call no. 54049. Thomas B. Harned, ed., The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, 1918. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; collection; contemporary; copy; design; estimate; foxing; illus; impression; ink; john; july; june; later; left; morocco; nov; oct; online; online cat; original; paper; pencil; pls; price; right; vols; william
• “Did he who made the Lamb make the... Tyger”? by Borkowska, Eliza (2014) - She is currently working on her contribution to The Reception of William Blake in Europe, writing her second book (The Presence of the Absence: Wordsworth’s Discourses on God), and co-translating Blake’s Jerusalem into Polish. “William Blake and His Circle,” published annually in Blake. Keywords: answer; blake; child; experience; innocence; lamb; poem; question; songs; speaker; stanza; tyger; william
• Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds., Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work by Paley, Morton D. (2014) - Featuring the Trinity is unusual for Blake, as Damon (William Blake 220) observes; Crosby and Essick suggest this was the idea of Linnell, a Trinitarian Baptist. Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds. Keywords: adam; blake; genesis; god; life; linnell; man; title; william
• Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake (Folio Society, 2013) by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2015) - In 2014 G. E. Bentley, Jr., (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) published William Blake in the Desolate Market (McGill–Queen’s University Press) and essays in Blake and Notes and Queries. This statement, or one very like it, appears in the annual checklists of “William Blake and His Circle” in Blake (1994 ff.). Keywords: blake; folio; gray; trust; william
• Burning Bright: William Blake and the Art of the Book, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, February–June 2013 by Erle, Sibylle (2015) - Burning Bright showcased a selection of the Blake collection at the John Rylands, but it seemed that none of what was on display was actually new; that is, there was no work of art that had not previously been listed in G. E. Bentley, Jr.’s Blake Books (1977) and Blake Books Supplement (1995) or Robert N. Essick’s William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations (1991), though the show included some newly discovered copies of works with his commercial engravings, most of which have since been included in Bentley’s annual checklists in Blake and the online compilation of those lists, “William Blake and His Circle.” It was curated by the archives and visual materials manager, Stella Halkyard, and grew out of Colin Trodd’s Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930 (2012) as well as the efforts of his students, who, after receiving special training on prints, etchings, and engravings, found what was on display. Keywords: blake; book; display; john; label; library; rylands; william
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2014 by Essick, Robert N. (2015) - The presence of engravings by Blake in Stedman’s book was first recorded by William Michael Rossetti in his list of “Works Engraved but Not Designed by Blake” in Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (London: Macmillan, 1863) 2: 260. Sotheran’s, the venerable London book dealer, issued a “William Blake” catalogue in October that includes Blake’s Job and Dante engravings, a selection of his commercial book illustrations, two etchings by Palmer, and a run of William Muir facsimiles of the illuminated books. Keywords: 1st; 2nd; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; collection; copy; dec; estimate; illus; impression; ink; john; july; june; london; march; nov; oct; online; paper; pencil; pls; price; title; vols; william; william blake
• Lord Tennyson’s Copy of Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826) by Erle, Sibylle (2015) - We now know not only that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, owned a copy of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job, but also that it had pride of place in his collection at Farringford on the Isle of Wight in the early 1860s. “Illustrations of the Book of Job Blake” is written in gold lettering on the spine. Keywords: blake; book; copy; illustrations; job; jowett; press; tennyson; william
• The Blakes at Their Press by Essick, Robert N.; La Belle, Jenijoy (2015) - Other illuminated books of the 1790s and Jerusalem name Blake as only their printer. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Keywords: blake; dante; left; press; right; william
• Ocean Growing: Blake’s Two Versions of Newton and the Emerging Polypus by Fletcher, Joseph (2015) - Reproductions of the work in the two book-length studies of Blake and Newton, Donald Ault’s Visionary Physics and Stuart Peterfreund’s William Blake in a Newtonian World, are of the later print. He claims that Blake combined the Michelangelesque form with the figure of Euclid from Raphael’s The School of Athens (“Symbolism of the Compasses” 61n6, Art of William Blake 35). Keywords: 1804–05; animal; blake; buffon; century; darwin; ecco; form; history; london; matter; nature; newton; philosophy; polyp; polypus; press; print; sea; trembley; university; william; william blake
• Colin Trodd, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830–1930 by Erle, Sibylle (2016) - In Visions of Blake Trodd discusses Alexander Gilchrist’s Life of Blake (1863), A. C. Swinburne’s William Blake (1868), and the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition (1876) in relation to the broader historical contexts of the Arts and Crafts and Aestheticist movements and alongside the writing of Blake’s nineteenth-century editors, curators, and collectors. Colin Trodd, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830–1930 Colin Trodd. Keywords: art; blake; blakeans; century; chapter; gilchrist; life; trodd; william; world
• “a bite”: The First Published Reference to Blake’s Ghost of a Flea? by Whitehead, Angus (2016) - Martin Butlin has proposed that copies of the visionary heads may have been made using Cornelius Varley’s patented graphic telescope,See Martin Butlin, “Blake, the Varleys, and the Patent Graphic Telescope,” William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed. Colburn published major works such as Samuel Pepys’s diary and (with Richard Bentley) an edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as works by “silver fork” novelists Lady Caroline Lamb and Lady Charlotte Bury, both of whom Blake met (see Peter Garside, “Colburn, Henry [1784/5–1855],” ODNB; G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. Keywords: blake; flea; gazette; ghost; heath; london; varley; william; wright
• W. S. Blake: New Facts and Engravings by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2016) - Joshua Gilpin, William Blake, and the Arts in 1796,” Notes and Queries 231 [ns 33.1] [1986]: 80-84) until the discovery of a letter to Gilpin of 13 April 1796 referring to “Blake Engraver & Printer of Exchange Alley, Cornhill” made it clear that the engraver was W. S. Blake (Bentley, “The Way of a Papermaker with a Poet … Postscript,” Notes and Queries 231 There are also Bentley, “A Collection of Prosaic William Blakes,” Notes and Queries 210 (ns 12.5) (1965): 172-78; Bentley, “Trade Cards and the Blake Connection,” Book Collector 37 (1988): 127-33; Geoffrey Keynes, “Engravers Called Blake,” Times Literary Supplement 17 Jan. 1942: 36, revised in his Blake Studies (1949) 50-55 and (1971) 46-49; Keynes, “‘To the Nightingale’: Perhaps an Unrecognized Poem by William Blake,” Book Collector 30 (1981): 335-45; Keynes and Peter Davidson, eds., A Watch of Nightingales (London: Stourton Press, 1981); Ruthven Todd, “The Two Blakes,” Times Literary Supplement 10 Feb. 1945: 72; Janet Warner, “Trade Cards of W. S. Blake,” Book Collector 32 (1983): 105-07 (two of them reproduced); and Raymond Watkinson, “‘White on Black,’” Times Literary Supplement 13 Sept. 1974: 980. Keywords: alley; blake; change; engraver; john; london; new; rowe; s. blake; w. s.; william
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2015 by Essick, Robert N. (2016) - Librairie Jean-Étienne Huret, Nov. online cat., “1792” (c. 1818) ed., “5 vol. A. Burnett, ed., The Medical Adviser and Guide to Health and Long Life, 1823–24. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; copy; drawings; half; illus; ink; jan; john; leaf; london; march; new; nov; online; online cat; original; palmer; paper; pencil; pls; price; vols; william; windle
• G. E. Bentley, Jr., William Blake in the Desolate Market by Crosby, Mark (2016) - From the outset, Bentley is clear that much of the information presented in William Blake in the Desolate Market is drawn from his earlier work on Blake, specifically Blake Records (2nd ed., 2004), Blake Books (1977), Blake Books Supplement (1995), and “William Blake and His Circle,” published annually in Blake. While such a view is restated at the beginning of William Blake in the Desolate Market with Bentley’s claim that Blake was “most comfortable living in his imagination” rather than in “the world of pence and penury” (3), the information that Bentley has marshaled, particularly the amount of money earned over the first twenty-five years or so of Blake’s professional career, suggests a rather different William Blake: a highly skilled engraver frequently attuned to a developing marketplace, who explored numerous commercial opportunities with varying degrees of economic success. Keywords: bentley; blake; market; william
• Frye’s Mistreatment of the Archetype by Spector, Sheila A. (2016) - Both occur within the context of a seven-thousand-year cycle, as Blake says in Night the First of The Four Zoas: “Then Eno, a daughter of Beulah, took a Moment of Time / And drew it out to [twenty years del.] seven thousand years” (Night the First, ll. 222-23, K 270; p. 9.9-10, E 304).Frye’s Blake was edited by Geoffrey Keynes—likely either the three-volume 1925 The Writings of William Blake or else the one-volume 1927 Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Therefore, all Blake citations will be from the more accessible Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings (1966), abbreviated K. Each Keynes citation is followed by a reference to David V. Erdman, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1988), abbreviated E. One cannot help but speculate whether Frye’s response to Blake would have been different had he not been introduced to the poet by an edition that regularizes Blake’s eccentric spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Keywords: adam; blake; bromion; criticism; frye; kabbalistic; literature; man; mysticism; myth; new; northrop; northrop frye; symmetry; william; william blake; world
• Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Una isla en la luna by Flores, Cristina (2016) - William Blake: An Island in the Moon. Primeros libros proféticos (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: First Prophetic Books), the first volume in Spanish entirely devoted to Blake’s poetry: Blake is not that good when he descends to the role of libeler and satirist, as in An Island in the Moon, miscellanea of prose and songs where, without success, he tries to perform that task of teaching with some humor, which the Greeks considered divine, and in which he quite rudely mocks the respectable and affected group of people that attended the social gatherings organized by his friend and protector Mistress Mathew. Keywords: blake; castanedo; island; spanish; william
• George Romney and Ozias Humphry as Collectors of William Blake’s Illuminated Printing by Paley, Morton D. (2017) - Bentley suggests that Blake may have been paid in copies of Night Thoughts that he and his wife could color and sell (William Blake in the Desolate Market [Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014] 49-50). See my “William Blake, Jacob Ilive, and the Book of Jasher,” Blake 30.2 (fall 1996): 51-54. Keywords: america; art; blake; blue; book; british; color; copies; copy; designs; europe; figure; green; humphry; image; library; london; man; museum; page; plate; prints; romney; songs; text; urizen; white; william; william blake
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2016 by Essick, Robert N. (2017) - SA, Jan. 2015 online William Blake, Printmaker cat., #18-22, pls. 2, 3, 5-7 only, 1968 printing, all illus. SA, Jan. 2015 online William Blake, Printmaker cat., #7-17, pls. numbered 1, 3-6, 8, 11, 16-19 only, 1826 printing on Whatman paper after removal of the “Proof” inscription, all illus. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; collection; copy; estimate; illus; impression; ink; june; leaf; london; morocco; new; nov; oct; online; online cat; original; paper; pencil; pls; price; vols; william; william blake; windle
• Two Newly Discovered Advertisements Posted by William Blake’s Father by Ripley, Wayne C. (2017) - This Mr. Blake was assuredly the father of William Blake, James Blake, Sr. (1722–84), whose hosiery and haberdashery shop was located at 28 Broad Street. See also G. E. Bentley, Jr., “William Blake of the Woolpack & Peacock,” Blake 50.2 (fall 2016). Keywords: blake; catherine; family; james; street; william
• William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective by Myrone, Martin (2017) - Appendix 1 Geographical origins of RA students, 1774–85 This statement of geographical origins is based on the birthplace of the students. United Kingdom and Ireland London 79 South East 10 East Anglia 8 Midlands 11 Northern England 13 Western England 9 Wales 2 Ireland 10 Scotland 4 TOTAL 146 Europe France 3 Netherlands 4 Italy 3 Switzerland 4 Germany 3 Russia 1 TOTAL 18 America North America 5 TOTAL 5 Appendix 2 Social backgrounds of RA students, 1774–85 Classification is based on the occupation of the father, or other parental figure where the father died young. Keywords: academy; address; age; april; archives; artist; arts; blake; british; brother; business; charles; death; december; drawing; edward; elizabeth; england; engraver; family; farington; father; february; george; great; henry; history; history painter; house; james; january; john; joseph; landscape painter; late; life; london; march; married; mary; master; medal; miniature; national; new; notes; november; october; old; painter; painting; peter; portrait painter; prob; pupil; record; register; richard; robert; royal; royal academy; samuel; schools; sculptor; september; silver; society; son; square; street; student; study; thomas; time; widow; wife; william; years; young
• Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli, William Blake: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy by Calè, Luisa (2018) - William Blake, Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante (London: National Art-Collections Fund, 1922) follows the titles and order established in Gilchrist’s Life of Blake while correcting some discrepancies in the sale catalogue of Linnell’s collection (Christie’s, 15 March 1918). “Whatever Book is for / Vengeance for Sin & / Whatever Book is Against the / Forgiveness of Sins / is not of the Father but / of Satan the Accuser / & Father of Hell”: Blake entered this comment on a sketch in which he visualized the architecture of retribution in Dante’s circles of hell. Keywords: blake; century; dante; hell; illustrations; inferno; plate; taschen; william
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2017 by Essick, Robert N. (2018) - For information about these watercolors, their discovery in 2001, and their appearance at auction in 2006, see Martin Butlin, “New Risen from the Grave: Nineteen Unknown Watercolors by William Blake,” Blake 35.3 (winter 2002): 68-73; Sotheby’s New York, 2 May 2006 catalogue, William Blake: Designs for Blair’s Grave; E. B. Bentley, “Grave Indignities: Greed, Hucksterism, and Oblivion: Blake’s Watercolors for Blair’s Grave,” Blake 40.2 (fall 2006): 66-71; and Essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2006,” Blake 40.4 (spring 2007): 116-26. Cobbs auction, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 14 Jan., #49, attributed to Blake, verso of 1 drawing inscribed in pencil “Said to be by William Blake / came from Camden Hotten — T. H. Mayhew[?] 1876,” and inscribed on the back of the frame “Drawing by W.m. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; contemporary; copy; drawing; estimate; illus; ink; july; march; nov; online; online cat; paper; pencil; pls; portrait; price; tatham; vols; william; windle
• “Two Newly Discovered Advertisements”: A Response to Wayne C. Ripley by Davies, Keri (2018) - That there are only two known instances of James Blake advertisements is normal for this market. Indeed, the words “please to direct a Line to A. Z. at Mr. James Blake’s” tell us quite clearly that James Blake is offering a mailbox service. Keywords: advertisement; blake; century; family; history; james; london; marriages; milk; ripley; street; william
• Blake and Music, 2017 by Whittaker, Jason (2018) - He is the author of several works on William Blake, including William Blake and the Myths of Britain (Palgrave, 1999), Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827 (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), and Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-​Century Art, Music and Culture (with Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly, Palgrave, 2012). William Blake has long been a favorite of a number of composers and songwriters, and when Donald Fitch published Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems and Prose of William Blake in 1990, he listed 1412 pieces that had been composed by 1988. Keywords: apple; blake; contents; duration; links; songs; spotify; william
• Daniela Picón, Visiones de William Blake: Itinerarios de su recepción en los siglos XIX y XX by Aguilar, Andrés Ferrada (2018) - In the opening chapter, titled with a translated quotation from Robert Southey, “Ese pintor de un genio grandioso pero demente, William Blake” (That Painter of Great but Insane Genius, William Blake), Picón lays out critical perspectives on the artist’s work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Consequently, Picón’s study undertakes not only a reading of Blake, but also deploys a strategy that contextualizes him in a space of production that goes beyond his own time and place. Keywords: art; blake; imagination; picón; surrealist; visionary; william; work
• Reading Jerusalem: The Horizon of Expectations by Spector, Sheila A. (2018) - Reading Jerusalem: The Horizon of Expectations Reading Jerusalem: The Horizon of Expectations By Sheila A. Spector Sheila Spector (sheilaspector@verizon.net) is an independent scholar who has devoted her career to exploring the intersection between romanticism and Judaica in general, and Blake and Kabbalism in particular. In a letter to George Cumberland (12 April 1827), Blake says he considers Jerusalem to be “Finishd” (E 784). Keywords: adam; albion; blake; chapter; divine; emanation; form; jerusalem; kabbalistic; los; myth; plate; soul; vala; william; world
• William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, September 2017–March 2018; Stephen F. Eisenman, ed., William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Michael, Jennifer Davis (2019) - Elizabeth Ferrell’s “William Blake on the West Coast” delves deeply into a specific subgroup of artists and writers who began to discover Blake in the late 1940s. It also reproduces other Blake works not included in the show and provides crucial interdisciplinary context for students of Blake who might be unfamiliar with the Aquarian counterculture, and vice versa. Keywords: age; aquarius; art; blake; eisenman; enlargement; exhibition; room; william
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2018 by Calè, Luisa (2019) - Albertina, Vienna, DGNF9346/5. 13 January–25 March 2018 Petworth House (National Trust) William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion Building on the Blake collection at Petworth, this exhibition explored the impact of Blake’s Sussex period on his development as an artist, tracing his reimagining of sea, light, and landscape in later works to his experience of maritime and rural scenes during his Felpham period. Exhibition catalogue: William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion. Keywords: blake; book; butlin; drawings; exhibition; london; museum; sussex; william
• Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley, eds., The Reception of William Blake in Europe by Riccardi, Silvia (2020) - William Butler Yeats and Edwin John Ellis’s three-volume edition of The Works of William Blake (1893) was a watershed for Blake’s afterlife abroad, proposing an esotericist view of the artist and anticipating Jean H. Hagstrum’s approach to Blake’s work as “composite art.” Two years later, in his Book of Irish Verse, Yeats further affirmed that “William Blake has been recently claimed as of Irish descent, upon the evidence of Dr. Carter Blake; and if, in the course of years, that claim becomes generally accepted, he should be included also in Irish anthologies” (quoted in Reception 39). Keywords: blake; erle; europe; reception; william; work
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2019 by Essick, Robert N. (2020) - Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. plate(s) SK Skinner auctions, Boston SL Sotheby’s auctions, London SP Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: Keywords: auction; blake; calf; cat; contemporary; copy; dec; estimate; feb; half; illus; june; london; march; morocco; nov; online; pls; price; vols; william; windle
• William Blake, Tate Britain, 11 September 2019–2 February 2020; Martin Myrone and Amy Concannon, with an afterword by Alan Moore, William Blake by Calè, Luisa (2020) - The exhibition paid great attention to the “‘bookishness’ of the books” and their modes of operation, suggesting their different “environments and experiences,” “how they are material objects held in a hand or put on a desk before you, how the context of a library or print collection is quite unlike the modern gallery setting,”Myrone in Luisa Calè, “William Blake: The Artist (Tate Britain, 11 September 2019–2 February 2020): An Interview with Martin Myrone,” Blake 53.1 (summer 2019). Musician as the Inspiration comes,” Blake wrote to his friend George Cumberland in 1800.Transcribed in Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley, “‘Dear Generous Cumberland’: A Newly Discovered Letter and Poem by William Blake,” Blake 32.1 (summer 1998): 4-13; discussed in Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 44. Keywords: art; blake; book; british; catalogue; copy; dante; designs; drawings; exhibition; gallery; london; myrone; new; plate; room; series; tate; thomas; vitrine; wall; william; william blake; works
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2019 by Calè, Luisa (2020) - There is No Natural Religion copy B (composed c. 1788, printed c. 1794). Together with William Westall’s watercolor Entrance to the Peak Cavern, Derbyshire (c. 1822) and the engraving after it by E. F. Finden, these Romantic works joined a mostly later corpus. Keywords: archive; art; blake; book; british; butlin; collection; copy; exhibition; gallery; illustrations; john; library; museum; national; plate; tate; victoria; william
• Translating Blake’s Prophetic Poetry: The Case of Milton by Steil, Juliana; Flores Pereira, Lawrence (2020) - “Tradução comentada de Milton de William Blake.” x - x - x - “The groans,” he said, “of aged chiefs: x - x - x - x - The howling of my dogs: x - x - x - The sudden bursts of the song of grief, x - x - x x - x - have melted Oscar’s soul.” Keywords: ballad; blake; english; form; lines; macpherson; metre; milton; para; poetry; portuguese; translation; verse; william
• John E. Grant, 1925–2020 by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2021) - A review of Damon, Blake’s “Grave” ; Adams, William Blake; Bentley, ed., William Blake, “Vala” or “The Four Zoas.” 12. Reviews of Erdman, Blake: Prophet against Empire, rev. ed.; Raine, William Blake. Keywords: author; blake; essays; jack; quarterly; review; studies; william; work
• Diagrammatic Blake: Tracing the Critical Reception of “The Mental Traveller” by Ritchie, Caroline Anjali (2021) - When Edwin J. Ellis and I had finished our big book on the philosophy of William Blake, I felt that we had no understanding of this poem: we had explained its details, for they occur elsewhere in his verse or his pictures, but not the poem as a whole, not the myth, the perpetual return to the same thing; not that which certainly moved Blake to write it …. Instead, these critics advise Blake scholars to valorize the obstructions to this completion embedded within the texts themselves by way of deliberate catachresis and a variety of other visual and verbal strategies designed to thwart any semblance of significatory or narrative closure. Keywords: blake; criticism; cycle; diagrams; frye; mental; orc; poem; press; traveller; university; william; william blake; yeats
• Edina Adam with Julian Brooks, William Blake: Visionary; Lives of William Blake: Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist, introduced by Martin Myrone by Calè, Luisa (2021) - He traces the Mellons’ turn to collecting to their acquaintance with Jung through repeated visits to Switzerland between 1938 and 1940, and shared interests with Jung in Blake, alchemical books, and collective archetypes, before they bought their first Blake in 1941.Hargraves 33; for a more extensive discussion of this point, see Hargraves, “William Blake and Paul Mellon: The Life of the Mind,” Public Domain Review (7 October 2014), <https://​publicdomainreview.​org/​essay/​william-​blake-​and-​paul-​mellon-​the-​life-​of-​the-​mind>, accessed 3 May 2021. Henry Crabb Robinson’s “William Blake, Künstler, Dichter und religiöser Schwärmer” (“Artist, Poet, and Religious Mystic”), published in German in the second volume of Vaterländisches Museum in 1811 and here reproduced from a revised translation originally published in 1914, demonstrates how Blake was introduced to German readers. Keywords: art; blake; book; collection; exhibition; getty; london; museum; tate; william; william blake; works
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2020 by Calè, Luisa (2021) - While Blake’s impact on surrealism is now well documented,Mei-Ying Sung, “Blake and Surrealism,” Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture, ed. Surrealism’s European coordinates are explored in Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley’s The Reception of William Blake in Europe (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)—​surprisingly minimized in the French chapter by Gilles Soubigou and Yann Tholoniat (1: 63) and extensively documented in the Belgian context by Franca Bellarsi and Gregory Watson (1: 102-16), while the exhibition Surreal Roots: From William Blake to André Breton at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2015 is discussed by Cristina Flores in “The Reception of Blake in Spain” in relation to the role of surrealism in connecting Blake to Dalí and Miró (1: 177-78). Keywords: blake; book; british; canada; exhibition; gallery; house; illustrations; london; national; surrealism; time; trianon; william
• “All his neighbourhood bewail his loss”: Bo Ossian Lindberg, 1937–2021 by Paley, Morton D. (2021) - Continuing his passionate engagement with Blake’s art and poetry, Ossian published articles and reviews in Blake, a short, updated discussion of the engravings in the great Blake Trust edition of Job, and the chapter on Sweden and Finland in The Reception of William Blake in Europe. William Blake Trust, 1987. —​—​—​. Review of David Bindman and Simon Baker, William Blake 1757–1827 Keywords: blake; william
• The Body in the Line: “Trasumanar” in Blake’s Dante by Riccardi, Silvia (2021) - Toward the end of his life, the sixty-seven-year-old William Blake approached Dante’s incommunicable experience by revisiting his poetics of line versus color. On Blake’s theory and practice of line, see also Bindman, Artist 102-04, 125-31, et passim; Butlin 14-17; Essick, Printmaker 5-7, 190, et passim; Mitchell 44-53, 96-97; and Paley, William Blake 49-56. Keywords: art; artist; blake; body; cary; commedia; dante; divine; form; gallery; god; human; imagination; inferno; light; line; paradiso; press; university; watercolor; william; william blake
• “Re-mediatingˮ William Blake in Croatia and Serbia by Bakić, Tanja (2022) - Interestingly, those handmade books by Blake “have been closely bound up with his posthumous fate” (Eaves, “On Blakes” 415), “almost as if William Blake anticipated this and invented himself for the discipline [of the history of books and the nature of print culture], or at least for the ‘interdiscipline’ˮ (Mulhallen 782). “Re-mediatingˮ William Blake in Croatia and Serbia “Re-mediatingˮ William Blake in Croatia and Serbia By Tanja Bakić Tanja Bakić is a published poet and literary translator from Montenegro. Keywords: art; artist; blake; jovanić; new; pozaić; rajčević; theory; translation; william; work
• To See the Worlds of a Grain of Sand: Blake and Reception by Erle, Sibylle (2021) - Colin Trodd’s Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World, 1830–​1930 (2012) remedied this bias by investigating the afterlife of Blake’s paintings in Victorian art and art criticism, outlining “how different models of Blake relate to key perceptions of modern art” (9). The editors of Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture (2012) ask provocatively: What happens if the Blakean afterlife is detached from writer-on-writer models of influence and residually patrilineal concepts of inheritance and transmission? … Keywords: art; blake; books; context; culture; goode; history; literature; media; new; readers; reading; reception; text; university; william; william blake; works; world
• Blake in Europe, edited by Sibylle Erle: cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2021) - I William Blake’s Black Bible as a Spectacle of Doom: A Recent Note to Blakean Reception in Romania By Cătălin Ghiță “I inhabited the Land of Ulro long before Blake taught me its proper name”: Czesław Miłosz’s Ziemia Ulro/The Land of Ulro By Eliza Borkowska Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa’s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy By Luisa Calè The Mental Travellers: On Blake’s Reception by Nikolai Gumilyov By Vera Serdechnaia Part II “Re-mediating” William Blake in Croatia and Serbia By Tanja Bakić “Sick as a Rose”: William Blake in Leopoldo María Panero’s Poetry of Experience By Cristina Flores Portuguese Readings of William Blake: Fernando Pessoa, a National Poet, and Três Tristes Tigres, a Pop-Rock Band By Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Cláudia Franco Souza, and João Carlos Callixto “Blake was a phenomenon”: Artistic, Domestic, and Blakean Visions in Joseph Paul Hodin’s Writing on Else and Ludwig Meidner By Sibylle Erle © 2022 BLAKE 55.3 winter 2021–22 BLAKE IN EUROPE, edited by Sibylle Erle Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B O A R D A N Keywords: blake; university; william
• Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa’s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy by Calè, Luisa (2021) - In so doing, Costa’s Italian Blake produces a visionary encoding for an open-ended history of the present. Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa’s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa’s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy By Luisa Calè Luisa Calè (l.cale@bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck, University of London, works on practices of reading, viewing, and collecting in the Romantic period. Keywords: berardi; beulah; blake; book; comic; costa; figure; french; grid; italian; jerusalem; left; order; page; panels; revolution; right; scene; william; words; writing
• William Blake’s Black Bible as a Spectacle of Doom: A Recent Note to Blakean Reception in Romania by Ghiță, Cătălin (2021) - The radio play William Blake’s Black Bible (Biblia neagră a lui William Blake) II Biblia neagră a lui William Blake was written and directed by the talented Romanian artist Ilinca Stihi. Keywords: biblia; black; blake; lui; neagră; nichita; play; romania; william
• Portuguese Readings of William Blake: Fernando Pessoa, a National Poet, and Três Tristes Tigres, a Pop-Rock Band by Sousa, Alcinda Pinheiro de; Souza, Cláudia Franco; Callixto, João Carlos (2022) - Her book Fernando Pessoa e os Romantismos: Inglês, Francês, Português e Alemão (Fernando Pessoa and Romanticism: English, French, Portuguese, and German) appeared in 2019, and she has coedited Pessoa’s História da Literatura Inglesa (History of English Literature) (2021), as well as two other volumes of his works, The Transformation Book—​or Book of Tasks (2014) and Writings on Art and Poetical Theory (2022), both published in the US. It is published in Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa e os Romantismos 64 and in the Biblioteca Nacional Digital, <http://​purl.​pt/​13901/​1/​P102.​html>. Keywords: blake; english; fernando pessoa; lisbon; new; nova; pessoa; poem; poesia; poetry; portugal; portuguese; que; reception; rock; studies; tyger; university; william; william blake
• “Blake was a phenomenon”: Artistic, Domestic, and Blakean Visions in Joseph Paul Hodin’s Writing on Else and Ludwig Meidner by Erle, Sibylle (2022) - He would have seen Blake’s works at the Tate’s Wartime Acquisitions exhibitions (1942 and 1945), as well as at the major Blake exhibition at the Tate in 1947 (see Erle, “Meidner und Blake”). See Erle, “Meidner und Blake.” Keywords: art; aus; biography; blake; chapter; das; den; der; die; ein; england; erinnerungen; exhibition; frankfurt; germany; gilchrist; hodin; ich; job; life; london; ludwig meidner; meidner; museum; nicht; reception; studio; time; und; visions; von; wagemann; war; william; william blake; works; world
• Linda Freedman, William Blake and the Myth of America: From the Abolitionists to the Counterculture by Walker, Luke (2022) - As Freedman notes, the recent scholarly antecedents of her study include the collections Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture (ed. Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly, and Jason Whittaker, 2012), Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture (ed. Clark and Whittaker, 2007), and The Reception of Blake in the Orient (ed. Clark and Masashi Suzuki, 2006), as well as Colin Trodd’s monograph Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World, 1830–​1930 (2012) and Edward Larrissy’s Blake and Modern Literature (2006). Keywords: america; blake; book; chapter; freedman; ginsberg; reception; william
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2021 by Essick, Robert N. (2022) - Eleven pp., including title reading “William Blake | owned by Grace L. Lambert | Pink House, Province Line Road, | Princeton, New Jersey. Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. Keywords: auction; blake; butlin; calf; cat; copy; drawing; estimate; half; illus; john; july; linnell; march; online; paper; pencil; price; vols; william; windle
• “Seen in my visions”: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations in William Blake’s Paintings and Illuminated Books by Worrall, David (2022) - He has published book chapters and journal articles on Blake, including, most recently, the section on the illuminated books in Sarah Haggarty, ed., William Blake in Context (2019). They are not included in Bentley’s Blake Books (1977) or Blake Books Supplement (1995), but appear in “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2012,” Blake 47.1 (summer 2013). Keywords: art; blake; books; cobweb; constants; cortex; form; hallucinations; image; klüver; klüver form; light; migraine; milton; neural; patterns; percepts; plate; spiral; visions; william; william blake
• Marsha Keith Schuchard, A Concatenation of Conspiracies: “Irish” William Blake and Illuminist Freemasonry in 1798 by McQuail, Josephine A. (2022) - Schuchard’s research in Moravian archives in 2001 (Davies, “William Blake in Contexts” 4) (with subsequent collaboration with Keri Davies) resulted in the announcement in 2004 in these pages of her startling discovery that Blake’s mother had attended the Moravian Church, and that the church took a decided interest in—​as it did with all church members—​Catherine Wright’s marriage to her first husband, Thomas Armitage. In her earlier monograph, Schuchard speculated as to why there is resistance to her contentions regarding Blake and the esoteric and erotic background of the more radical Swedenborgian and Moravian sects, and why so many have shied away from the ideas she examines: “Sensible academic critics have cautiously refrained from taking the plunge, for this kind of historical detective work must reject most academic conventional wisdom about the eighteenth century … and dig deep into the esoteric underground of the mystical counterculture” (William Blake 10). Keywords: blake; concatenation; erdman; irish; new; schuchard; william
• John Higgs, William Blake Now; John Higgs, William Blake vs. the World by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2023) - Wherever it goes, William Blake vs. the World will make friends for Blake. Higgs is ultimately as interested in what is going on in our brains when we pay attention to Blake’s works as he is in what went on in Blake’s, while at the same time leading us to think about how Blake’s response to his world can help us to respond to ours. Keywords: blake; higgs; william; works
• Prophet against Empire? William Blake in Australia by Harley, Alexis; Knowles, Claire; Murray, Chris (2023) - This movement coincided with the publication of the late-Victorian books that began to bring Blake to a wider audience: William Muir’s facsimiles of 1884–​90, the second edition of Alexander Gilchrist’s Life of William Blake (1880), and, crucially, Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake (1893). In May 1897, a review reprinted in the literature-focused “Red Page” of the Bulletin, then a highly influential nationalist journal, wended its way to the idea of Edward Gibbon as a visionary architect of history by throwing out this casual and apparently superfluous allusion to Blake: “Among the visionary persons who presented themselves to William Blake was the man who built the Pyramids” (Dowden). Keywords: art; australia; blake; century; empire; england; english; felton; gallery; london; melbourne; national; new; ngv; south; sydney; university; victoria; william; william blake; work
• William Blake’s Annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost: New Evidence for Attribution by Sherlock, Lisa (2023) - In reviewing Phillips’s book William Blake: The Creation of the “Songs” from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (2000), Alexander Gourlay agreed that while the “WB” monogram used to sign the annotation on display in the exhibition is similar to the one with which Blake signed his art, he had not seen any examples in Blake’s text. In “William Blake and His Circle, 2002,” G. E. Bentley, Jr., withdrew his initial support for considering the Milton edition as having been owned or annotated by Blake; he further critiqued the attribution in “William Blake and His Circle, 2008.” Keywords: bentley; blake; cowper; hayley; library; milton; paradise; william
• A Copy of Richard Bentley’s Edition of Paradise Lost in William Hayley’s Library c. 1802 by Crosby, Mark (2024) - It further reveals that “the verse & prose, inserted in that copy …, were not written by our dear Bard, but by yr amiable Father”—​that is, not written by William Cowper, but by his uncle, the late Ashley Cowper. One, with manuscript “verse & prose” by Ashley Cowper and an epigram on his uncle by William Cowper, was brought from Weston Underwood to Felpham by John Johnson and was present in Hayley’s Turret House in early 1802, according to the previously unpublished letter to Lady Hesketh of 10 January. Keywords: annotations; backwell; bentley; copy; cowper; hayley; milton; william
• William Blake’s The Ancient Britons: A Book and a Website (Now Vanished) Reviewed by Erle, Sibylle (2024) - She is the author of Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy (2010) and she co-edited with Morton Paley the two-volume Reception of William Blake in Europe (2019). She also co-edited “Science, Technology and the Senses” (2008), Panoramas, 1787–​1900: Texts and Contexts (2012), and “Monsters: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Monstrosity” (2019–​20), and edited “Blake in Europe” (2022). Keywords: blake; book; britons; exhibition; german; kirkup; klopstock; painting; robinson; roob; team; william
• A List of Morris Eaves’s Publications by Ripley, Wayne C. (2024) - Allen Ginsberg/​William Blake: “Songs of Innocence and Experience” by William Blake, Tuned by Allen Ginsberg, with Peter Orlovsky, Variously Accompanied [recording] (MGM “Verve,” 1970). William Blake in Context. Keywords: blake; eaves; press; university; william
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2023 by Crosby, Mark (2024) - Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. plate(s) PPA Potter & Potter auctions, Chicago RF Riverfront auctions, Cincinnati RW Richard Winterton auctions, Lichfield, Staffordshire SL Sotheby’s auctions, London SNY Sotheby’s auctions, New York SP Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983) SRRB Sims Reed Rare Books, London SWD Sworders auctions, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex Windle John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, San Francisco WW Woolley & Wallis auctions, Salisbury, Wiltshire # auction lot or catalogue item number Illuminated Books Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Keywords: apr; auctions; blake; calf; cat; copy; drawing; illus; ink; july; paper; pencil; price; sept; sketch; state; vols; wash; william
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2023 by Calè, Luisa (2024) - Although the commentary did not mention Dante Gabriel’s transcription of some of the prose and poetry from the Notebook, dated around 1850, nor the edition of The Poetical Works of William Blake (1874) by his brother, William Michael, which demonstrate the depth of Blake’s presence in the Rossetti family, the display itself invited a series of associations between texts and images. Tate Britain, Blake Room Tate Britain, London 17 April 2023–​2 June 2024 Tate Britain displayed Blake in dialogue with Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili, who was invited to “select a number of his own watercolours and sketches that resonate with the works of William Blake.”See <https://​www.​tate.​org.​uk/​visit/​tate-​britain/​display/​historic-​early-​modern-​british-​art/​chris-​ofili>. Keywords: america; art; art museum; blake; british; butlin; center; collection; copy; huntington; library; mellon; mellon collection; ofili; paul; plate; tate; william; yale; yale center
• Matthew Mauger, William Blake and the Visionary Law: Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution by Worrall, David (2024) - This modification signals his point of departure from Jon Mee’s Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992), Saree Makdisi’s William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (2003), and G. A. Rosso’s The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism (2016), the leading exponents of tracing antinomian ideologies in Blake. For the reader of William Blake and the Visionary Law, Moskal’s vivid analogy of 1988 may help to grasp the idea that Blake’s impulse toward antinomian radicalism was tempered by the necessity of having laws stable and flexible enough to protect the Human Form Divine. Keywords: antinomian; blake; book; law; mauger; william
• The Ambiguities of Translation: Fuseli, Blake, and the Making of Aphorisms on Man by Carter, Sarah (2024) - it was brought before an English audience through the printmaking skills of William Blake and the agency of Lavater’s childhood friend Henry Fuseli. More recently, Martin Priestman has suggested that Fuseli’s role remained “embryonic” and that “a great deal of the final picture’s detail is purely the work of … William Blake” (105). Keywords: aphorisms; art; blake; book; collection; copy; der; die; drawing; edition; english; engraver; engraving; essays; frontispiece; fuseli; henry; johnson; lavater; letter; london; man; new; original; physiognomy; press; translation; und; university; von; william; william blake; work
• “Symbols of embodied agency”: The Reception of William Blake’s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture by Ritchie, Caroline Anjali (2025) - In 2007, Mind-Forg’d Manacles: William Blake and Slavery (Ferens Art Gallery, Burrell Collection, and Whitworth Art Gallery, 2007–​08) was held in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade and the 250th anniversary of Blake’s birth. “William Blake Takes On GlaxoSmithKline—​Practical History.” Keywords: art; artists; black; blake; camp; douglas; engravings; images; johnson; lee; locke; narrative; price; slavery; stedman; violence; william; work
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2024 by Crosby, Mark (2025) - he also owned a copy of Poetical Sketches with the inscription “To Charles Tulk Esqre / from William Blake” (see William Blake Archive), as well as No Natural Religion copy M and All Religions Are One pl. 1 (BB 82n4; BR[2] 383n). ”For bibliographical information on this pamphlet, see Roger R. Easson and Robert N. Essick, William Blake, Book Illustrator, vol. 1 Keywords: auction; blake; copy; drawings; frontispiece; illus; john; july; left; linnell; mar; new; oct; paper; pencil; plates; songs; vols; william
• Blake e la sua epoca. Viaggi nel tempo del sogno. La Reggia di Venaria, 31 October 2024–2 February 2025; Blake e la sua epoca, ed. Alice Insley by Calè, Luisa (2025) - In turn, Blake’s works will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest in September 2025 in what amounts to the first exhibition of Blake originals in Hungary,In 2007 an exhibition in the art nouveau Reök Palace, Szeged, Hungary, put Blake’s Comus illustrations, represented by colored lithographs published by Bernard Quaritch in 1890, and Goya’s Caprichos in dialogue with the twentieth-century Hungarian painter, photographer, and writer Béla Kondor (1931–​72); see Ágnes Péter, “The Reception of Blake in Hungary,” The Reception of William Blake in Europe 2: 568. Instead of chronicling Blake’s encounter with the Gothic by way of his sketches and engravings of the sepulchral monuments at Westminster Abbey during his apprenticeship to Basire, a period that was central to the exhibition William Blake: Apprentice and Master at the Ashmolean in 2014–​15,Reviewed by Susan Matthews in Blake 50.1 (summer 2016). Keywords: blake; book; exhibition; john; room; tate; text; theme; venaria; wall; watercolor; william; works
• Blake’s Lawgiver, Newton’s System, Reynolds’s Justice by Schaffer, Simon (2025) - The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Keywords: balance; blake; figure; flaxman; island; john; joshua; justice; law; lawgiver; london; newton; nicholson; reynolds; steelyard; vol; westminster; william
• Who Are Blake’s Eternals? by Hobson, Christopher Z. (2025) - Blake and the Argument of Method, edited by Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, and Donald Ault, Duke UP, 1987, pp. 111-38. —​—​—​. Narrative Unbound: Re-visioning William Blake’s The Four Zoas. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Keywords: beings; blake; death; divine; eternals; eternity; family; human; jerusalem; life; los; milton; mortals; night; poem; urizen; william; world; zoas
• William Blake, George Romney, and The Life of George Romney, Esq. by Paley, Morton D. (2022) - John Romney, Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830) 251. 36. Meyer was a highly accomplished miniature William Blake, George Romney, and The Life of George Romney, Esq. Keywords: art; blake; book; engraving; fall; flaxman; gallery; george; george romney; hayley; john; john romney; letter; life; london; painting; picture; portrait; press; quarterly; romney; time; university; vine; walker; watson; william; william blake
• Mickle Maher, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is (Theater Oobleck, Chicago, 2011) by Silverstein, Mary (2022) - Her recent work includes Queer Blake, co-edited with Helen P. Bruder (Palgrave, 2010), and Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture, co-edited with Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker (Palgrave, 2012). She is the author of William Blake and the Body (Palgrave, 2002) and several essays on Blake, romantic women poets, medicine, sexuality, and religion. Keywords: audience; blake; william
• “an excellent saleswoman”: The Last Years of Catherine Blake by Whitehead, Angus (2022) - “An alternative date for the gift is 1827-31, when catherine Blake was living as a widow with c. h. tatham’s son Frederick” (BR[2] 398fn); “It seems improbable … that a gift from Blake to tatham would bear a note from Mrs. Blake; it is more probable that the impression was a gift from Mrs. Blake sometime between Blake’s death on 12 August 1827 and her own death on 18 october 1831” (robert N. essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue [princeton: princeton University press, 1983] 189). 85. See Angus Whitehead, “‘I also beg Mr Blakes acceptance of my wearing apparel’: The Will of henry Banes, landlord of 3 Fountain court, Strand, the last residence of William and catherine Blake,” Blake 39.2 (fall 2005): 86-89. 27. Keywords: address; bentley; blake; br(2; catherine; catherine blake; charlton; frederick; grove; letter; life; linnell; london; mrs; place; press; residence; spring; street; tatham; time; upper; william; works
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2011 by Essick, Robert N. (2022) - Meiwes, Jan. online cat., foxed, some pls. Meiwes, Jan. online cat., foxed and water stained, most pls. Keywords: 2nd; april; art; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; collection; copy; dec; designs; drawing; estimate; foxing; half; illus; ink; jan; john; july; june; later; leaf; linnell; march; morocco; nov; oct; online cat; paper; pencil; pls; price; prints; sketches; spring; vols; william; windle

• “Bound ... by their narrowing perceptions”: Sympathetic Bondage and Perverse Pity in Blake’s The Book of Urizen by Eron, Sarah (2022) - “Reading Blake and Derrida—Our Caesars neither Praised nor Buried.” Critics have long acknowledged Blake’s critique of pity in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience: “Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor” (“The Human Abstract”).The other representation of pity that has occupied Blake critics over time is the color print Pity, which is analyzed by David Bindman in William Blake: His Art and Times. Keywords: blake; bondage; book; creation; division; image; los; new; perception; pity; self; sympathy; urizen; world
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2013 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2014) - §William Blake: Selected Poetry and Letters. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2013 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2013 By G. E. Bentley, Jr. with the assistance of Hikari Sato for Japanese publications and of Fernando Castanedo for Spanish publications G. E. Bentley, Jr. (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) is trying to learn how to recognize the many styles of handwriting of a professional calligrapher like Blake, who used four distinct hands in The Four Zoas. Editors’ notes: The invaluable Bentley checklist has grown to the point where we are unable to publish it in its entirety. Keywords: bentley; blake; book; catalogue; collection; copy; designs; drawings; edition; english; essick; experience; flaxman; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; john; june; leaf; leaves; library; london; lot; man; new; page; paper; plates; poems; press; prints; quaritch; review; robert; russian; songs; spanish; text; title; university; william blake; works; york
• Steven Goldsmith, Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions by Rosso, G. A. (2014) - Goldsmith thus adds considerably to discussions about Blake and the body and strengthens support for an immanent rather than transcendent Blake. Complex and difficult but readable and clear, the book makes an original and important contribution to Blake studies, though its aims and interests are much broader and more ambitious. Keywords: agency; blake; book; emotion; goldsmith; reading
• Carl-Johan Malmberg, Stjärnan i foten. Dikt och bild, bok och tanke hos William Blake by Lindberg, Ossian (2015) - Blake scholars are mostly quoted in Swedish, Blake himself in English. Carl-Johan Malmberg has written a large book of about 450 pages on Blake generally, concentrating on what Jean Hagstrum called Blake’s composite art, his unique illuminated printing from copperplates on which text, image, and decoration stand up in relief and can be printed like woodcuts. Keywords: blake; book; lionardo; malmberg; swedish
• Karl Kroeber, Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies by Mertz, J. B. (2015) - David Wagenknecht, Blake’s Night: William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral, Blake 8.4 (spring 1975): 116; Stephen C. Behrendt, The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton and Edward Hodnett, Image and Text: Studies in the Illustration of English Literature, Blake 19.2 (fall 1985): 75; and Morris Eaves, ed., The Cambridge Companion to William Blake, Blake 38.4 (spring 2005): 151-54. It seems to me that few people could plausibly argue that Blake is not among the most influential “canonical” poets in terms of his impact on modern popular culture,See, as a recent example, “Part III: Blake in Film and Graphic Arts,” Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture, ed. Keywords: blake; book; era; kroeber
• Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the Myth of Creation by Rovira, James (2022) - Chapter 8, a seventy-three-page section titled “Twilight of the Psychopaths,” first identifies Urizenic reasoning with “clinical insanity” (129) and then provides an historical account of the rise of brain lateralization over the last 6000 years of human history, beginning with a discussion of the pyramids, the rise of priesthood, and militarism. In the same vein, he does not consider counterarguments or alternative positions except to dismiss them as examples of Urizenic reasoning, inadvertently setting up neurologists studying brain lateralization, Blake, and himself as the only right-thinking beings to exist since the rise of Homo sapiens. Keywords: blake; book; brain; left; tweedy
• William L. Pressly, James Barry’s Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2016) - With this huge, lavishly illustrated volume, Pressly crowns a stack of books and essays on Barry and his contemporaries,Pressly’s books on Barry are James Barry, 1741–1806: History Painter (with Tom Dunne, 2010), James Barry: The Artist as Hero (1983), and The Life and Art of James Barry (1981). Pressly’s analysis of each picture builds upon an extended exegetical selection from Barry’s writings, especially the 1783 Account of a Series of Pictures, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi (a copy of which Blake owned). Keywords: art; barry; blake; book; pressly
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2016) - *Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake in the Desolate Market. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015 By with the Assistance of Hikari Sato for Japanese Publications, of Li-Ping Geng 耿力平 for Chinese Publications, and of Fernando Castanedo for Spanish Publications G. E. Bentley, Jr.’s Thomas Macklin (1752–1800) Picture-Publisher and Patron is in the press. Keywords: archive; art; bentley; blake archive; book; catalogue; chinese; copy; edition; english; engravings; essick; history; innocence; john; lai; lian; library; london; new; oxford; pls; poetry; press; review; robert; section; shi; songs; studies; thomas; toronto; university; wei; wen; william blake; works; xiang; xue; yan; blake
• Andrew M. Cooper, William Blake and the Productions of Time by Yoder, R. Paul (2016) - Rather, he argues that for most of his career Blake was caught between the drive to speak and a fear of speaking, and those two states imply the same sort of interface Cooper has been examining all along. He is the author of articles on Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Blake, and Wordsworth. Keywords: blake; book; chapter; cooper; milton; urizen; vortex
• Jennifer G. Jesse, William Blake’s Religious Vision: There’s a Methodism in His Madness by Michael, Jennifer Davis (2016) - Review: Jesse, William Blake’s Religious Vision: There’s a Methodism in His Madness Jennifer G. Jesse. William Blake and Religion: A New Critical View. Keywords: blake; book; jesse; reason; urizen
• Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2017) - Its two authors both write clearly and well, and they usually explain concepts and terms that would not be familiar to undergraduates, but the efficiently allusive prose is still likely to be over the heads of many of those seeking help reading Blake criticism. This chapter is particularly likely to be useful to undergraduates looking for a place to start reading Blake criticism, especially because these approaches are not only au courant but often fruitful when applied to the Songs, even by beginners; furthermore, they don’t call for a personal supply of stopping varnish and nitric acid or seem to require that one preface every critical argument by tracking it back to its origins in the nineteenth century. Keywords: blake; book; criticism; songs
• Roger Lüdeke, Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake: Ästhetische Souveränität und politische Imagination by Erle, Sibylle (2017) - In the second part of his introduction Lüdeke addresses the paradigmatic shifts in Blake studies: the attention paid to editions and versions of the early prophetic books as well as their practical-technical dimensions (27). Reviewed by Sibylle Erle Sibylle Erle (sibylle.erle@bishopg.ac.uk), FRSA, is senior lecturer in English at Bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln, author of Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy (Legenda, 2010), co-editor of Science, Technology and the Senses (special issue for RaVoN, 2008), and volume editor of Panoramas, 1787–1900: Texts and Contexts (5 vols., Pickering & Chatto, 2012). Keywords: america; blake; book; der; die; europe; image; imagination; lüdeke; political; printing; religious; social; und; urizen; von; writing
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2017) - *Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake in the Desolate Market. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016 By with the Assistance of Hikari Sato for Japanese Publications, of Li-Ping Geng 耿力平 for Chinese Publications, and of Fernando Castanedo for Spanish Publications G. E. Bentley, Jr. (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) published Thomas Macklin (1752–1800), Picture-Publisher and Patron, Creator of the Macklin Bible (Mellen Press, 2016), with a section on Blake. Keywords: 4to; april; art; blake; book; british; catalogue; chinese; collection; copy; english; esq.r; essick; evans; experience; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; john; joseph; july; june; library; literature; london; lot; museum; new; original; paper; pars; plates; poetry; press; prints; review; robert; routledge; sale; section; songs; university; william blake; works
• Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake by Lincoln, Andrew (2017) - There is an obvious element of anachronism here, because such comparisons would not have been possible for those in Blake’s day who bought individual copies of the works, and may not always have been possible for Blake himself, since he did not possess in material form the complete works of William Blake. The idea that the distinctive formal properties of Blake’s illuminated books are aspects of his assault on authority is already well established in Blake studies, but it has rarely been pursued as fully or as clearly as it is here. Keywords: blake; book; makdisi; reading; text; work
• Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr., 23 August 1930–31 August 2017 by Mulhallen, Karen (2017) - For half a century I have been wrestling with the spirit of William Blake, with the protean shapes of Blake’s myth and the factual Laocoon of his life. I had come over for a late afternoon drink, my little dog, Matilda, had climbed up on Beth’s lap from the footrest on her wheelchair, and Jerry was talking to me about some very interesting finds in his annual compilation of Blake studies for Blake. Keywords: beth; blake; book; geb; jerry
• Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Yoder, R. Paul (2017) - Damrosch’s style leads the relatively uninitiated reader gently through Blake’s sometimes baffling world, but those working in Blake studies might wish for something more challenging. Damrosch also “corrects” Blake’s spelling and punctuation, a decision that some might argue removes a key component of the strangeness that makes Blake Blake. Keywords: blake; book; chapter; damrosch; reader; work
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2017 by Ripley, Wayne C. (2018) - Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake and His Circle: Publications and Discoveries from 1992. “Adam no sozo wo megutte: William Blake Adam wo sozo suru Elohim no saiko (Concerning the Icon of the Creation of Adam: Reconsideration of Elohim Creating Adam by William Blake).” Keywords: art; bentley; blake archive; book; catalogue; century; checklist; circle; eisenman; english; illustrations; isbn; james; john; joseph; journal; literature; london; mark; new; notes; pars; press; rev; reviews; robert; romanticism; section; studies; university; william blake; works; blake
• Sarah Haggarty, ed., William Blake in Context by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2020) - It will be particularly useful to beginners in Blake studies who need sound, authoritative generalizations about him, his work, and his times as a foundation for more particular discussions. There are illustrations in the book, but except for a print by Basire cited by Crosby, all are Blake works. Keywords: blake; book; context; haggarty
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2019 by Ripley, Wayne C. (2020) - “Solidão, evasão e revolta do eu-lírico no poema ‘London,’ de William Blake (Solitude, Evasion, and Revolt of the Liric [sic] Self in the Poem ‘London,’ by William Blake).” William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2019 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2019 By Wayne C. Ripley Works in Romance Languages Collected and Compiled by Fernando Castanedo Works in Japanese Collected and Compiled by Hikari Sato Works in Turkish Collected and Compiled by Hüseyin AlhasResearch for “William Blake and His Circle” in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University. Keywords: art; artist; blake archive; blake exhibition; book; britain; british; century; circle; concannon; context; copy; david; de william; division; english; erle; essick; europe; fuseli; haggarty; haywood; imagination; isbn; james; jason; john; journal; life; literature; london; martin; mary; matthews; myrone; new; oct; paley; pars; press; reception; review; robert; romanticism; sept; shannon; studies; swedenborg; tate; thomas; university; whittaker; william blake; wollstonecraft; work
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020 by Ripley, Wayne C. (2021) - Letters (1791–1827) 18 January 1808 to Ozias Humphry For a Portuguese translation, see Tavares, “William Blake e a (re)visão do juízo final,” in Part VI. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020 Dedicated to the essential library workers, who “kept the Divine Vision in time of trouble” (Jerusalem 44 [30].15, E 193) By Wayne C. Ripley Works in Romance Languages Contributed by Fernando Castanedo Works in Japanese Contributed by Hikari Sato Works in Turkish Contributed by Hüseyin Alhas Works in Russian and Other Cyrillic Languages Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) is a professorResearch for “William Blake and His Circle” in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University. Keywords: abstract; alexander; art; article; blake archive; blake e; book; britain; butlin; century; culture; dante; de william; edition; english; exhibition; experience; french; hell; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; italian; jerusalem; john; johnson; joseph; journal; london; milton; new; pars; poems; poetry; portuguese; press; reception; review; robert; romanticism; russian; science; songs; studies; tate; university; vala; william blake; wollstonecraft; works; world; blake
• Sheila A. Spector, The Evolution of Blake’s Myth by Yoder, R. Paul (2021) - (255) The typical reader may well have found the terms of this summary baffling at the outset of Spector’s book, and it is a measure of her success that by page 255 these statements not only make sense, but also seem comfortably familiar. Chapter 7, “Blake Interpreting Blake: The Gates of Paradise,” demonstrates “how Blake used the consolidated myth as the basis for reinterpreting his own work” (255), in this case “to remediate his vision through what had become his own horizon of expectations, adding some mottos, a verbal apparatus and a concluding bimodal image act, all to create a new perspective from which to view The Gates of Paradise” (259). In “Conclusion: The Truth of Myth,” Spector goes back to Frye to consider how the exoteric approach gained dominance in Blake studies. Keywords: act; blake; book; esoteric; jerusalem; myth; narrative; spector
• “I inhabited the Land of Ulro long before Blake taught me its proper name”: Czesław Miłosz’s Ziemia Ulro/The Land of Ulro by Borkowska, Eliza (2022) - On the contrary, Miłosz uses Blake to elucidate some of the Miloszian intricacies (see, for example, his discussion of Les Arcanes in chapter 34). As I have stressed before, Miłosz applies Blake, first and foremost, to his own times and culture, pointing to Ulro and the myth that lies behind it as the most valid and imaginatively potent description of the secularized twentieth century, with its Urizenic cosmos, Urizenic consumer culture, Urizenic theology unable to defend religion, and Urizenic literature. Keywords: blake; book; english; land; language; literature; man; miłosz; polish; translation; ulro; ziemia; ziemia ulro
• Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, ed. Adam Komisaruk and Allison Dushane by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2022) - For an attempt at characterizing Blake’s view of Darwin, see Ya-Feng Wu, “Blake’s Critique of Erasmus Darwin’s Botanic Garden,” Wordsworth Circle 50.1 (2019): 55-73. Furthermore, there is a very good one-volume facsimile edition with an introductory essay by the monarch of Darwin studies, Desmond King-Hele, that is nearly as satisfactory for readability as the original (Scolar Press, 1973). Keywords: anemone; blake; book; darwin; garden; images; thel
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2021 by Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, Hüseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera (2022) - Reading William Blake. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2021 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2021 By Wayne C. Ripley Works in Romance Languages Contributed by Fernando Castanedo Works in Japanese Contributed by Hikari Sato Works in Turkish Contributed by Hüseyin Alhas Works in Russian Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) is a professorResearch for “William Blake and His Circle” was conducted in: Krueger Library at Winona State University (for works in English); the Universidad de Alcalá Library, Madrid (for works in Romance languages); CiNii and the National Diet Library online catalogue, Komaba Library and General Library of the University of Tokyo, and the National Diet Library (for works in Japanese); the General Library at Social Sciences University of Ankara and İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University Library (for works in Turkish); and Kuban State University (for works in Russian). Keywords: abstract; anjali; art; artist; blake archive; blake society; book; british; cambridge; caroline; century; circle; divine; eighteenth; english; erle; exhibition; feb; higgs; history; hogarth; influence; isbn; james; jan; jason; john; joseph; june; life; london; new; pars; poet; poetry; press; reception; review; ritchie; robert; russian; section; spanish; studies; university; vala; viscomi; whittaker; william blake; wollstonecraft; women; work; world; blake
• Blake, Lucretius, and Prophecy: The Book of Los by Lincoln, Andrew (2023) - In The Book of Los Blake derives from these figures two cycles in the history of prophecy, which together constitute a single development showing how the chaotic vision of atheistic materialism makes the idea of divine creation necessary. William Blake: Modernity and Disaster. Keywords: blake; book; century; creation; epicurean; london; los; lucretius; milton; newton; urizen; vision; work; world
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2022 by Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, Hüseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera (2023) - William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2022 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2022 By Wayne C. Ripley Works in Romance Languages Contributed by Fernando Castanedo Works in Japanese Contributed by Hikari Sato Works in Turkish Contributed by Hüseyin Alhas Works in Russian Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) currently servesResearch for “William Blake and His Circle” was conducted in: Krueger Library at Winona State University (for works in English); the Universidad de Alcalá Library, Madrid (for works in Romance languages); CiNii and the National Diet Library online catalogue, Komaba Library and General Library of the University of Tokyo, and the National Diet Library (for works in Japanese); the General Library of Social Sciences University in Ankara, the Beytepe Library of Hacettepe University, and the Bill Bryson Library at Durham University (for works in Turkish); and Kuban State University (for works in Russian). I: William Blake Part I: Blake’s Writings Section A: Original Editions, Facsimiles, Reprints, and Translations Section B: Collections and Selections Part II: Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors Section B: Collections and Selections Part III: Commercial Engravings Section A: Keywords: abstract; age; art; article; artist; blake archive; blake society; book; british; century; david; division; eighteenth; english; essay; exhibition; experience; french; fuseli; george; henry; higgs; isbn; james; jason; jerusalem; john; johnson; joseph; library; life; london; mary; michael; nature; new; nov; pars; poetry; press; prophecy; reception; review; robert; romanticism; romney; russian; songs; studies; thomas; tyger; university; vala; visionary; whittaker; william blake; wollstonecraft; works; world; youtube; blake
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2022 by Calè, Luisa (2023) - Wainewright owned Jerusalem copy B; see G. E. Bentley, Jr., “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2001,” Blake 36.1 (summer 2002): 6. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery focused on Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, reconstructing the aesthetic world of the critic, collector, artist, and convict and setting examples of Blake works he is known to have owned next to Old Master prints and contemporary painters. Keywords: art; blake; book; british; catalogue; copy; dante; drawing; exhibition; fuseli; gallery; illustrations; library; morgan; museum; plate; sendak; tate; university; wainewright; wood; works
• A Conversation with Helen Bruder by Effinger, Elizabeth; Bruder, Helen P. (2023) - There probably should have been other people working to forward this direction in Blake studies but after Women Reading William Blake (2007) (hereafter WBDA), the first book that brought feminist criticism to bear on Blake studies. Keywords: blake; book; wbda; work
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2023 by Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, Hüseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera (2024) - “I propose that Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët’s graphic novel Satania (2016) extends the whimsical macabre in new directions, by drawing on the work of Romantic poet and artist William Blake, whose illustrated books are often cited as forerunners of modern comics” (abstract). “In Conflict with the Mainstream: William Blake Considered as an Outsider Artist.” Keywords: abstract; art; article; artists; arts; blake archive; blake studies; book; british; catalogue; century; chapter; circle; cosway; culture; display; division; eighteenth; english; exhibition; experience; fuseli; global; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; james; jason; jerusalem; john; joseph; life; london; maria; mark; mary; mccue; milton; new; poems; poetry; press; review; reynolds; robert; romanticism; russian; section; society; songs; studies; thomas; university; vala; visionary; visual; whittaker; william blake; wollstonecraft; women; works; blake
• Jason Whittaker, Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake by Leporati, Matthew (2025) - Jason Whittaker’s impressive Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake opens with an examination of a deceptively familiar image, one of Blake’s most famous: “The Ancient of Days.” The Real Life of William Blake (2014), and guides to reading Blake, such as Saree Makdisi’s Reading William Blake (2015) and Kathryn S. Freeman’s A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake (2017). Keywords: blake; book; images; whittaker; work
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2024 by Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, Hüseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera (2025) - “Exclusive Interview with Visionary William Blake.” “This year I’ve tried two ways—​printmaking and welding—​to get under the dirty, stubborn skin of William Blake.” William Blake Archive Exhibition: Crosby, Mark. Keywords: 2024); abstract; art; article; bindman; blake archive; blake e; blake society; book; cambridge; catalogue; century; chadwick; circle; collection; crosby; david; division; english; esther; exhibition; global; global blake; god; isbn; jason; jerusalem; john; joseph; london; mar; maria; mark; mcquail; museum; music; new; poem; poetry; press; review; robert; russian; section; songs; studies; thomas; universe; university; vala; visionary; whittaker; william blake; wollstonecraft; works; youtube; blake
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2024 by Calè, Luisa (2025) - James S. Deville, Head of William Blake, 1823 Fitzwilliam Museum, M.7-1947 Catherine Blake, Portrait of the Young William Blake, c. 1830? (Butlin #C3) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.14-1953 John Flaxman, Portrait of William Blake, 1804 Fitzwilliam Museum, 828.f.37 John Linnell, William Blake, 1821 Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.61-1950 John Linnell, Head and Shoulders of William Blake, 1820 Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.57-1950 John Linnell, Portrait of Blake at Hampstead, c. 1825 Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.58-1950 The Past: Antiquity and the Gothic “Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion”: First state, 1773 Second state, c. 1810–​25 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.391-1985, P.392-1985 Aminadab, Called “The Reposing Traveller,” after Michelangelo and Adamo Scultori, c. 1785 (Butlin #170 verso) British Museum, 1867,1012.205 The Apotheosis of Bacchus, after d’Hancarville, c. 1779–​85 (Butlin #174) British Museum, 1867,1012.207 Joseph’s Brethren Bowing Down before Him, c. 1784–​85 (Butlin #155) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456A Joseph Ordering Simeon to Be Bound, c. 1784–​85 (Butlin #156) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456B Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren, c. 1784–​85 (Butlin #157) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456C “Homer Invoking the Muse,” after Flaxman, for Flaxman, Iliad, 1805 Fitzwilliam Museum “Head of a Damned Soul,” after Fuseli, c. 1789–​90 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.423-1985 “Tornado,” after Fuseli, for Darwin, The Botanic Garden, 1795 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.546-1985 Hyperion (“The Bowman” ), late 1790s (Butlin #336) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.167-1985 Ugolino and His Sons in Prison, wash drawing, c. 1780–​85 (Butlin #208) Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1980-128 Ugolino and His Sons in Prison, tempera, 1826–​27 (Butlin #805) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.5-1978 Engravings for the Divine Comedy, 1826–27: “The Circle of the Corrupt Officials: The Devils Mauling Each Other” “The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca” Fitzwilliam Museum, P.812-R, P.810-R On Homer’s Poetry [and] On Virgil, c. 1822 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.711-1985 יה & his two Sons Satan & Adam (Laocoön), c. 1826–​27 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.398-1985 For Rees’s Cyclopædia, 1820: “Sculpture” (Venus de Medici, Apollo Belvedere, Laocoön) “Sculpture” (Durga Slaying Mahishasura, An Etruscan Patera, A Colossal Statue at Thebes, Persian Sculpture at Persepolis, A Chinese Statue) Fitzwilliam Museum, P.579-1985, P.739-1985 Free Version of the Laocoön, c. 1825 (Butlin #681) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.29-2020 The Present: Europe in Flames America, a Prophecy copy O, composed 1793, printed c. 1821: Keywords: art; art museum; blake; book; british; butlin; colonial; david; death; display; european; exhibition; fitzwilliam; fitzwilliam museum; hamburger; job; john; kunsthalle; life; museum; narrative; satan; tate; william blake
• Magnus Ankarsjö, William Blake and Religion: A New Critical View by Rowland, Christopher (2011) - The impact of this kind of understanding in terms of wider society could have The Illuminated Books of William Blake Re-created www.williamblakeprints.co.uk Although alert to the points of disagreement between Blake and Wollstonecraft, who occupied quite distinct positions on the matter of sexual liberation, Stevens provides a fasci- nating exploration of Blake’s unorthodox belief that slavery caused suffering not only to those enslaved but to their mas- ters. Keywords: blake; book; chapter; religion
• Hazard Adams, Blake’s Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2022) - Portrait of William Blake,” Blake 39.3 (winter 2005-06): 126-39. 17. For this part of the provenance record, see Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, no. 635. Keywords: adams; blake; book; death; work
• Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange by Scott, Grant F. (2012) - The final chapter, “Salvation,” investigates Blake’s unorthodox representation of Christ’s “saving gift” (157), his sacrifice of himself for Albion in Jerusalem.  As such the primary texts are Blake’s letters, annotations, and Descriptive Catalogue. Keywords: blake; book; gift; haggarty; inspiration
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2011 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2012) - §William Blake: Écrits prophétiques des dernières années suivis de lettres. William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2011 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2011 By G. E. Bentley, Jr. with the assistance of Hikari Sato for Japanese publications and of Li-Ping Geng for Chinese publications G. E. Bentley, Jr. (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) publishes bibliographies, biographies, and editions of William Blake (1963 ff.), George Cumberland (1975), John Flaxman (1964), the Edwardses of Halifax (forthcoming), and learned pigs (1980), with important separate essays on Thomas Butts, F. J. Du Roveray, illustrated Bibles, and James Parker. Keywords: april; art; ballads; bentley; blake; blake books; book; butts; catalogue; chinese; copies; copy; dec; designs; edition; english; engravings; essick; experience; flaxman; hayley; illustrations; innocence; james; john; journal; june; lai; letter; library; literature; london; magazine; march; new; night; notes; paper; paul; plates; poems; poetry; press; prints; queries; review; robert; shi; songs; studies; text; thomas; thoughts; university; wen; william blake; works; xue

• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2012 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2013) - §William Blake: Milton, Zaślubniny Nieba §William Blake: Wiersze i poematy Keywords: analysis; april; art; bao; bentley; blake archive; blake books; blake pl; blake studies; british; butlin; catalogue; century; chinese; collection; college; copy; culture; cumberland; david; de william; drawings; edition; english; essay; essick; experience; george; guo; hell; illustrations; innocence; isbn; james; jason; john; journal; june; ke de; lai; lai ke; leaves; letters; lian; library; literature; london; lot; lun; magazine; march; monthly; new; poems; poetry; press; prints; review; robert; sept; shi; songs; spring; state; studies; toronto; tyger; university; victoria; wei; wen; whittaker; william blake; work; xiang; xue; xue xue; yan; year; york; yuan; bb; blake
• New Night Thoughts Sightings by Ripley, Wayne C. (2014) - My friend Mr. D’Israeli possesses the largest collection of any individual of the very extraordinary drawings of Mr. Blake; and he loves his classical friends to disport with them, beneath the lighted Argand lamp of his drawing room, while soft music is heard, upon the several corridores [sic] and recesses of his enchanted staircase. To my list of catalogue references to Blake’s Night Thoughts, which was augmented by G. E. Bentley, Jr.,Wayne C. Ripley, “Printed References to and Known Prices of Blake’s Night Thoughts, 1796–1826,” Blake 43.2 (fall 2009): 72-75; G. E. Bentley, Jr., “Sales and collection records, 1798–1840,” in “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2010,” Blake 45.1 (summer 2011): 18-19. should be added eight new listings. Keywords: blake; catalogue; london; night; thoughts; young
• Newfound Particulars of Blake’s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767–1806 by Johnson, Mary Lynn (2014) - Newfound Particulars of Blake’s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767–1806 Newfound Particulars of Blake’s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767–1806 By Mary Lynn Johnson Mary Lynn Johnson (mary-grant@uiowa.edu), a retired special assistant in the University of Iowa president’s office, has written several essays on Blake’s biblical watercolors for Thomas Butts. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), and in annual addenda to Blake Records, were expanded by Joseph Viscomi, “William Blake’s ‘The Phoenix / to Mrs Butts’ Redux,” Blake 29.1 (summer 1995): 12-15, “Blake in the Marketplace 1852: Thomas Butts, Jr. and Other Unknown Nineteenth-Century Blake Collectors,” Blake 29.2 (fall 1995): 40-68, and “A ‘Green House’ for Butts? Keywords: blake; butts; elizabeth; hesse; income; johnson; june; london; mary; school; street; thomas; year
• “Bad” Queens, “Good” Queens, and George III (as His Satanic Majesty) by Miner, Paul (2015) - William Blake All citations of Blake are from The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley, “‘Dear Generous Cumberland’: A Newly Discovered Letter and Poem by William Blake,” Blake 32.1 (summer 1998): 4-13. Keywords: america; angel; blake; death; england; france; george; iii; jerusalem; king; london; milton; orc; paradise; queen; revolution; satan
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2014 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2015) - Review (of vol. 1) *Adriana Díaz Enciso, “El método de profecía de William Blake,” Milenio [Mexico City] 7 Dec. 2013 (in Spanish), reprinted as “William Blake’s Method of Prophecy” on the Blake Society web site (a “vast and outstanding … feat”; “All the illustrations are neatly and faithfully reproduced”; “This edition of William Blake’s Prophetic Books in Spanish is one of the most important publishing events in that language for decades.”) Reviews (of vol. 2) *Maica Rivera, “Cómo ser William Blake,” Leer no. 249 (Feb. 2014): 76-77 (in Spanish). *Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake in the Desolate Market. Keywords: artnow; bentley; blake books; books; chinese; collection; copy; dante; de william; edition; english; essick; experience; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; jing; john; journal; june; lai; library; life; london; lot; manuscript; museum; new; original; poems; poetry; prints; review; robert; section; shi; songs; spanish; title; toronto; university; victoria; vol; william blake; works; xue; bb; blake
• My Blake (Part 1: In Russia) by Smirnov, Dmitri Nikolaevich (2018) - Many of his works reflect his fascination with the poetry and art of William Blake. In January 1981 I wrote the song cycle Fearful Symmetry, Six Poems by William Blake for voice and organ, op. Keywords: albans; blake; london; meladina; mins; moscow; music; performance; piano; press
• Properly Cowed: An Answer to Keri Davies by Ripley, Wayne C. (2018) - Parish rate books often recorded the Blakes’ house as being on Marshall Street into the nineteenth century, despite the tendency of the Blake family to describe their shop and home as being on Broad Street. Moreover, these cowsheds surrounded what was once the Blake family home—besides the one on Marshall Street, the others mentioned were on Hopkins Street and New Street, which intersect with Broad Street from the south to the immediate east of Poland Street. Keywords: blake; carnaby; cattle; century; cows; davies; house; james; london; market; marshall; slaughter; street
• My Blake (Part 2: In England) by Smirnov, Dmitri Nikolaevich (2018) - Deciding to continue my visionary ballet Blake Pictures, I focused now on Blake’s ink and tempera painting The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, which made a great impression on me when I saw it at the Tate. I decided that it was a good opportunity to set to music Blake’s “Silent, Silent Night,” which was described by Thomas Mann in his Doctor Faustus, the story of the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkühn: Keywords: blake; london; meladina; mins; music; performance; piano; press; songs
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2018 by Essick, Robert N. (2019) - John Windle’s William Blake Gallery in San Francisco exhibited Blake Books: The Commercial Engravings of William Blake, a Tribute to Gerald E. Bentley, Jr. from 2 February to 30 April. Ormsby with Joyce H. Townsend, Brian Singer, and John Dean, “Blake’s Use of Tempera in Context,” Townsend, ed., William Blake: The Painter at Work (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003) 148. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; copy; designs; feb; half; illus; ink; john; july; london; march; nov; offer; online; online cat; original; pencil; pls; price; sept; title; vols; windle
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2018 by Ripley, Wayne C. (2019) - William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2018 William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2018 By Wayne C. Ripley Works in Romance Languages Collected and Compiled by Fernando Castanedo Works in Japanese Collected and Compiled by Hikari SatoResearch for “William Blake and His Circle” in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University. I: William Blake Part I: Blake’s Writings Section A: Original Editions, Facsimiles, Reprints, and Translations Section B: Collections and Selections Part II: Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors Section B: Collections and Selections Part III: Commercial Engravings Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors Part IV: Bibliographies and Catalogues Section A: Bibliographies Section B: Catalogues Part V: Digital Resources Part VI: Criticism, Biography, and Reviews Division II: William Blake’s Circle The Ancients Barry, James Böhme, Jakob Cumberland, George Cunningham, Allan Darwin, Erasmus Douce, Francis Flaxman, John Füssli, Johann Heinrich Gibson, John Hayley, William Johnson, Joseph Lizars, William Home Macklin, Thomas Marsh, John Moravians Mortimer, John Hamilton Palmer, Samuel Reynolds, Joshua Robinson, Henry Crabb Romney, George Royal Academy of Arts Stedman, John Gabriel Stothard, Thomas Swedenborg, Emanuel Tatham, Charles Heathcote Wollstonecraft, Mary Introductory Essay I want to begin my second checklist by thanking my collaborators, Fernando Castanedo and Hikari Sato, for their assistance with non-English material. Keywords: age; albion; andrew; art; bentley; blake archive; books; britain; butlin; century; circle; connolly; digital; edition; english; essick; isbn; james; jason; john; joseph; london; michael; new; object; pars; portuguese; press; review; robert; romanticism; songs; studies; sussex; university; verso; visions; whittaker; william blake; works; blake
• Blake’s “Holy Thursday” and “The Martyrdom of St. Paul’s” by Simmons, Clare A. (2020) - Under normal circumstances, charity children might have had difficulty obtaining admission to St. Paul’s, which then as now required a fee,The Times records in January 1838 a debate as to whether St. Paul’s should remain open free of charge to the general public on Sunday afternoons. An interesting similarity is that both “Holy Thursday” from Innocence and “The Martyrdom of St. Paul’s” are written in fairly loose long couplets that embody the long parade of children walking in pairs; Glen remarks of the Blake poem that they are walking “in the rhythm of the verse, marching hobbledehoy through the streets of London” (121). Keywords: almanack; blake; charity; children; experience; june; london; martyrdom; paul; schools; service; speaker; thursday
• Susan Mitchell Sommers, The Siblys of London: A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England by Ripley, Wayne C. (2021) - The book focuses largely on the two oldest brothers, Manoah (1757–​1840), a Swedenborgian minister and Bank of England employee, whom the Blakes almost certainly met, and Ebenezer (1750–​99), a bookseller, freemason, quack, astrologer, political operative, bigamist, and self-described male midwife and alchemist. The second wife, Mary Larkholm, was the mother of Kezia (1748–​87) and Ebenezer; the third, Charity Standard (d. 1768), was the mother of Manoah and Job (1760–​1815); and the fourth, Elizabeth Read, was the mother of Charity (1772–​1847). Keywords: blake; ebenezer; london; manoah; new; sommers
• The House of Aumont and Blake’s French Revolution by Davis, Matthew M. (2022) - The younger son, Louis-Alexandre-Céleste, succeeded his father as premier gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (first gentleman of the king’s bedchamber) and was given a ducal title of his own, Duke of Villequier Aumont; he opposed the revolution, remained unswervingly loyal to Louis XVI, and eventually served in the court in exile of Louis XVIII. I will attempt to minimize that confusion by using either their full names or the ducal titles that they held and chiefly used in 1789 and early 1790, when Louis-Marie Guy d’Aumont was the Duke of Aumont and Louis-Alexandre-Céleste d’Aumont was the Duke of Villequier Aumont. Keywords: alexandre; assembly; aumont; blake; céleste; des; duke; d’aumont; family; french; henri; king; lafayette; london; louis; marie; paris; poem; revolution; royal; villequier; xvi
• William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2010 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2011) - Blake Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly BR(2) G. e. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. (2004) Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (1981) DAI Dissertation Abstracts International; note that now DAI online offers access to the entire thesis ISBN International Standard Book Number Works in Japanese In books printed in the traditional Japanese format, the Japanese characters are printed in vertical columns, the col- umns are read from top to bottom and from the righthand column to those on the left. It was published in separate chapters as §William Blake and His Return to Illumination. Keywords: anon; bbs; blake books; books; butlin; catalogue; collection; copy; designs; edition; engravings; essick; hayley; history; illustrations; innocence; isbn; john; kessinger; library; literature; london; lot; new; night; oct; plates; poetry; press; publishing; quaritch; quarterly; review; robert; songs; summer; thomas; thoughts; university; visions; whitefish; william blake; works; york

• Tom Dunne and William L. Pressly, eds., James Barry, 1741–1806: History Painter by Read, Dennis M. (2022) - This growing interest began with the publication of William L. Pressly’s The Life and Art of James Barry in 1981, followed by a major exhibition of Barry’s work at the Tate in 1983 and John Barrell’s numerous references to Barry in his 1986 study, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt. William Blake considered James Barry a kindred spirit. Keywords: art; barry; blake; society
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2012 by Essick, Robert N. (2013) - As a symbol of the zodiacal sign of Capricorn, the goat is sometimes given a fish-like body with 2 twisting tails (see, for example, the impresa of Cosimo de’ Medici reproduced in James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, rev. ed. Krown & Spellman, April online cat., “1792” (c. 1818) ed., scattered foxing, 3 vols. Keywords: 1st; april; art; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; copy; dec; estimate; etching; fine; half; hand; illus; impression; ink; jan; john; july; june; leaf; left; nov; oct; online; online cat; paper; pencil; pls; price; right; vols
• Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly, and Jason Whittaker, eds., Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture by Scott, Grant F. (2014) - Whitson’s essay contrasts the online Blake Archive with the new internet realm of what he calls “Digital Blake 2.0.” As Dent rightly notes, “the question of authenticity becomes one of editorial authority” (57), and that’s why the Blake Archive again plays a crucial role in exploring these questions. Keywords: archive; art; author; blake; copyright; digital; editors; web
• Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2014) - #547 4*> “The Grave | a Poem | by Robert Blair | illustrated with 12 Engravings | by Louis Schiavonetti | From the Original Inventions | of | William Blake. Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs First published July 2014 Updated October 2014 (list of additions) Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs By G. E. Bentley, Jr. G. E. Bentley, Jr. (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) published William Blake in the Desolate Market (McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2014) and added 550 pages to the online “Sale Catalogues of Blake’s Works, 1791-2014.” Editors’ note: Wherever possible we have included a link to the design. Keywords: alan; art; blair; blake; british; british museum; catalogue; collection; designs; essick; gallery; god; grave; head; hebrew; job; john; library; man; museum; night; parker; picture; robert; sketchbook; tate; thou; varley; varley sketchbook; wbw; yale
• Rosenbach and Blake by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2018) - The person who dealt with more copies of Blake’s works than any other was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (1876–1952),For Rosenbach’s own account of his career, see A. S. W. Rosenbach, Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927).The Rosenbach business was continued by John Fleming. * ** Bible, Job (1826) Offered in Rosenbach catalogue 28, Five Hundred Rare Books … (1936), lot 41, “folio, gray calf, blind tooled sides,” “proofs on India paper,” $235 <untraced>. Keywords: < now; a. white; art; blake; collection; estate; library; lot; rosenbach; rosenwald <; w. a.; white; butlin; essick; now library
• William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, Petworth House (National Trust), January–March 2018; Andrew Loukes, ed., William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion by Calè, Luisa (2018) - While analysis of the “Three years Labours at Felpham” (E 572) has focused on the composition of Milton and Jerusalem, a wider case about Blake’s visual corpus was made in William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, the exhibition curated by Andrew Loukes at Petworth House from January to March 2018. Review: William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion (Petworth House, 2018) William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion. Keywords: art; blake; butlin; cat; felpham; gallery; hayley; jerusalem; milton; petworth; sussex; works
• Interpreting Blake’s The Magdalene at the Sepulchre by Rosso, G. A. (2020) - also states that Blake’s treatment is “a spiritual counterpart” or contrary “to Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro” Christ and St. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb (illus. 4), in which Jesus and the Magdalene are illumined by natural light (56). Blake initially conflates Mary Magdalene and Rahab to suggest that Mary becomes part of the development of the false church, but he later backs off this move in other revisions that distinguish the two characters. Keywords: art; blake; body; divine; gospel; jerusalem; jesus; john; magdalene; mary; mary magdalene; new; rahab; resurrection; sepulchre; tomb; vala
• “Remarkable both for Genius, & Extravagance”: Amelia Opie and Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job by King, Shelley; Pierce, John B. (2021) - Elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1786 and a full member the following year, he promoted art as a public good, advocating in 1800 for the creation of a national gallery; he also delivered the Royal Academy lectures on painting in 1806.In the memoir published in Lectures on Painting … by the Late John Opie (1809), Amelia Opie writes, “He next published a letter in a daily paper It is readily identifiable by its inscription: “This work remarkable both for Genius, & Extravagance, is the gift of Amelia Opie to her friend David, whose own genius will make him prize the former, while his excellent Taste makes it impossible for him to imitate the latter—​Paris—​4me Mo 22me 1831” (see illus. Keywords: alderson; amelia; art; blake; correspondence; david; job; letter; mrs; opie
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2021 by Calè, Luisa (2022) - In addition to Dante illustrations, including the numinous red clouds from Dante and Virgil Approaching the Angel The wall text summarized the range of Dante illustrations over the centuries: medieval illuminated manuscripts, some of which were exhibited in the previous room, Botticelli’s “Dante on vellum,” series of illustrations by Federico Zuccari and Giovanni Stradano, John Flaxman’s “severe linear style” associated with “Botticelli’s graphic purity,” and then Blake, praised for “imagining, especially for the Inferno, iconographies endowed with extraordinary fantastic-visionary impact. Keywords: art; blake; butlin; circle; dante; exhibition; gallery; illustrations; inferno; job; melanie; museum; smith; swedenborg
• The Notebook, Laocoön, and Blake’s Beauties of Inflection by Martello, Matthew (2023) - And in his new biography William Blake vs. the World (2021), John Higgs suggests that Blake’s understanding of the liberatory potential of “self-annihilation” tracks with recent research into the “stubbornly practical and rational … default mode network” in the brain, which generates autobiographical memory and also (until deactivated by, for example, task-oriented focus or psychedelic drugs) hinders imaginative experience (31-37). Blake 53.2 (fall 2019): 141 pars. —​—​—​. “William Blake, Illuminated Books, and the Concept of Difference.” Keywords: art; arts; bentley; blake; blake archive; books; british; composite; copy; eaves; emblem; erdman; example; image; laocoön; library; life; lines; manuscript; material; meaning; method; mind; new; notebook; page; plate; poetics; poetry; press; printing; robert; rossetti; songs; studies; text; time; university; verse; viscomi; william blake; work; years; ​—​—​.
• William Blake’s Universe: An Interview with David Bindman and Esther Chadwick by Calè, Luisa; David Bindman; Chadwick, Esther (2024) - EC: There have been great strides in Blake scholarship since 1975, not least in understanding Blake in global as well as European contexts. Does exposure to German material articulate a different kind of visionary art, compared to the millenarian public sphere discussed in Blake studies? DB: There are obvious similarities and differences between Blake and Runge and other contemporaries. Keywords: art; blake; cambridge; exhibition; fitzwilliam; museum; runge
• Memories of David Bindman by Paley, Morton D. (2025) - In 1982–​83 David organized the exhibition William Blake: His Art and Times at the Yale Center for British Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario, with an impressive 192-page catalogue that gave due attention to the cultural and sociopolitical backgrounds of Blake’s art. While a graduate student at Columbia University in 1959, I had attended Professor Blunt’s Bampton Lectures (published as The Art of William Blake), and this had made me aware that I needed to study art history further to continue to do the work that I intended. Keywords: art; blake; blunt; david
• Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, eds., Blake and Conflict by Hobson, Christopher Z. (2022) - The most useful is probably the concordance of the words used in the reported conversations, but interesting as well are the speculative remarks in the introduction on Blake’s pro- nunciation and the implications of rhymes (xxi-xxxv) and the supporting tables of perfect and imperfect rhymes in the ap- pendices. Though there is a danger that some will treat this whole judicious assem- blage of somewhat problematic facts as having the same kind of authority as Blake’s own words, the lightheartedly learned tone that prevails should inhibit anyone from taking it all too literally. Keywords: art; blake; conflict; conversation; mee; volume; worrall

• Posthumous Blake: The Roles of Catherine Blake, C. H. Tatham, and Frederick Tatham in Blake’s Afterlife by Viscomi, Joseph (2019) - Catherine Blake Resides in Mayfair at the Office and Studio of C. H. Tatham Catherine Blake moved to Linnell’s studio on 11 September 1827; her printing press preceded her by about two weeks. A heavier weight J Whatman / 1831 paper was used in Songs copies a, g, and i. Catherine Blake died in October 1831, so an 1831 watermark in a book does not rule out her participation in that book’s production—​but an 1832 watermark does. Keywords: alpha; america; black; blake; blake books; books; br[2; catherine blake; copies; copy; copy h; drawings; europe; experience; frederick tatham; gilchrist; grove; h. tatham; house; impressions; ink; innocence; jerusalem; john; leaves; life; linnell; lisson; paper; plates; printed; printing; prints; road; sale; songs; songs copies; street; studio; tatham; whitehead; william blake; works; years
• Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection” by Hobson, Christopher Z. (2021) - Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection” Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection” By Christopher Z. Hobson Christopher Z. Hobson (hobsonc@oldwestbury.edu), professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury, is the author of The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake’s Idea of Revolution, Blake and Homosexuality, and The Mount of Vision: African American Prophetic Tradition, 1800–​1950, among other works. This essay argues that Blake rejected John Wesley’s teaching of “Christian perfection” and examines the implications of this rejection for Blake’s ideas of morality, conduct, and social and sexual freedom. Keywords: albion; blake; christian; divine; god; grace; holiness; jerusalem; john; life; los; milton; perfection; perfectionism; power; sanctification; satan; self; sin; spectre; views; wesley; whitefield; works
• Redefining Apocalypse in Blake Studies by Rosso, G. A. (2023) - Rowland, along with a burgeoning cadre of biblical scholars who address the issue, can help bring more precision to the way these concepts are used in Blake studies. I want to acknowledge at the outset that I am treating the conflation of a pair of concepts in modern theological exposition and in Blake studies, not covering the entire vast phenomenon. Keywords: apocalypse; apocalyptic; blake; end; eschatology; form; frye; god; history; jesus; john; literature; los; milton; moment; new; prophecy; revelation; rowland; time; vision
• Blake’s Hervey, Thomas Butts, and Methodism by Read, Dennis M. (2024) - Blake, Epitome of James Hervey’s “Meditations among the Tombs.” Blake doesn’t take liberties with the text so much as he finds a prevailing message of love and forgiveness in Hervey’s words. Keywords: blake; butts; epitome; figures; god; hervey; james; john; life; love; meditations; painting; thomas; wesley; whitefield; work

• Colored Copies of Blair’s Grave (1808, 1813): A Census by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2017) - They are not described at all in Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (1981), or in Blake Books (1977), Blake Books Supplement (1995), and “William Blake and His Circle” in Blake (1994–), except incidentally. First Editions, Original Drawings, Paintings, Caricatures: The Work of the Great English Illustrators and Authors of the XVII-XIX Centuries: Alken, the Three Cruikshanks, Rowlandson, Gillray and Others … Now the Property of the Estate of His Wife, the Late Annie Jessup Woodin, Sold by Order of the Executor, Part Two, 6-8 January 1942 (New York, 1942), lot 60, Blair, The Grave (1813), with the hand coloring of the prints “probably done by Mrs. Blake”; (2) Offered at Parke-Bernet Galleries, catalogue of Mrs. David Gage Joyce of Chicago, “A Maryland Lady,” a midwestern collector, and others, 23-24 November 1943 (New York, 1943), first day, property of “A Maryland Lady,”The Maryland lady was Christine Alexander Graham, whose bookplate appears in Songs of Innocence (A) (lot 48). Keywords: blair; blake; coloring; copy; grave
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2020 by Essick, Robert N. (2021) - Abbreviations AH Abbott and Holder, London BB G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1977). Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. Keywords: april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; copy; half; illus; march; online; price; vols; windle
• Blake in the Marketplace, 2022 by Essick, Robert N. (2023) - Blake, Works by William Blake … Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Editions. Blake, Poems from William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence,” illus. Keywords: 2nd; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; contemporary; copy; feb; half; illus; online; paper; plates; pls; price; right; vols; windle
• Robert N. Essick, ed., William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2012) - The recto/verso printing of the pages Blake had at hand when he assembled copy E entailed some further compromises on his part—“Laughing Song” appears in both Innocence and Experience, and the “Nurses Song” in Experience is effectively salvaged from an accidental double impression in order to make use of the print on the opposite side. As facsimiles of Blake’s pages the reproductions are not completely successful: the original pages of copy E are matte, for one thing, and these reproductions are all printed on glossy paper, with what appears to be a glossier finish on top (or perhaps just glossy ink). Keywords: blake; copy; edition; essick

• Blake’s “Introduction” and Hesiod’s Theogony by Fosso, Kurt (2013) - R. T. Davies and B. G. Beatty (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976) 19-35; W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake’s Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978) 4-9; Zachary Leader, Reading Blake’s “Songs” (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) 70; Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment: Blake’s “Songs” and Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 65-66; Stanley Gardner, Blake’s “Innocence” and “Experience” Retraced (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986) 18-19; Andrew Lincoln, ed., Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991) 143-44; Nicholas M. Williams, Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 56-58; and Robert N. Essick, ed., Songs of Innocence and of Experience (San Marino: Huntington Library, 2008) 29-32. See David Wagenknecht, Blake’s Night: William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1973) 13-14, 69, and Joseph Wicksteed, Blake’s Innocence and Experience: A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928) 81. Keywords: blake; cambridge; hesiod; innocence; introduction; press; songs; theogony; university
• Network Theory and Ecology in Blake’s Jerusalem by Hagan, Jade (2020) - Moreover, tracing these ideas in Jerusalem through the lens of network theory supports an ecological reading of Blake, as it reveals he had realized a basic but powerful insight: that, as ecologist Bernard Patten puts it, “ecology is networks” (343). While it’s worth recalling that, for Blake, a thing’s invisibility does not mean that it isn’t real or can’t be felt and experienced, his refusal to depict “all” contrasts with the totalizing impulse and desire for mastery through visualization that we find in other deployments of network theory, such as Franco Moretti’s claim in “Network Theory, Plot Analysis”: “What I took from network theory were less concepts than visualization: the possibility of extracting characters and interactions from a dramatic structure, and turning them into a set of signs that I could see at a glance, in a two-dimensional space” (10). Keywords: blake; correspondences; earth; ecology; form; galloway; interconnection; jerusalem; latour; life; material; nature; network; network theory; new; plate; press; thacker; theory; university; world
• William Blake’s “Introduction” to Songs of Innocence: The Role of the Pipe by Thomson, Ian (2023) - Or did he have in mind a particular kind of pipe, and, if so, which? Classical authors express the extent to which contemporary shepherds revered Pan, the ancient Greek god of the natural world, who inhabited the fields and forests, usually playing pipes: Theocritus reports that pipes were not played at noon because that was when Pan slept, and he was not to be disturbed. Keywords: blake; innocence; instrument; pan; piper; poem; press; reed; shepherd; songs
• Eternity in the Moment: William Blake and Mary Oliver by Michael, Jennifer Davis (2022) - By commun- ing with nature in a way that neither idealizes it nor accepts its absolute otherness, Oliver joins Blake in challenging and 4. [hereafter HL] 27. eternity in the Moment: William Blake and Mary Oliver By Jennifer Davis Michael Fall 2011 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 45 dismantling many of the binaries that have come to define ro- manticism: mind and nature, self and other, soul and body.10 Allusions and Appropriations Before exploring Oliver’s explicit allusions to Blake, it is worth noting that many more of her poems show a general affinity with him, especially the Blake of Visions of the Daugh- ters of Albion and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, for whom “every thing that lives is holy.” Keywords: blake; body; imagination; life; nature; new; oliver; poem; poetry; press; romney; speaker; thel; world

• Martha Redbone Roots Project, The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake by Newman, Steve (2015) - This is living music, transporting the incisive ethical and political critique at the heart of Blake’s imaginative vision to an Appalachian landscape “radically altered by strip-mining”; Redbone, of Native American and African-American ancestry, finds in Blake a congenial voice for her own thoughts about “my ancestral home Black Mountain, Kentucky, coal country and pre-contact Shawnee/Cherokee land.” Redbone and her team are not the first to adapt Blake to a folk or roots idiom; for one example, Greg Brown’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1986) will be known to some (reviewed in Blake 23.2 Keywords: blake; garden; love; redbone; songs; voice
• Adding to Blake Set to Music by Kumari, Ashanka (2016) - Source: International Music Score Library Project. GILLETT, JeffUK William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience; songs for voice, guitar, concertina, mandolin, dulcimer, whistle. Sources: International Music Score Library Project, YouScribe. HUTCHINGS, KevinCanada Songs of William Blake; songs for voice, violin, Celtic harp, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, keyboards, accordion, double bass, percussion. Keywords: blake; duration; experience; songs; sources; voice
• Kate Horgan, The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795 by Millar, Stephen R. (2016) - Drawing on the work of Maureen McLane, Horgan contends that ballads functioned in a similar fashion, defining them as a subcategory of song in opposition to the dominant narrative in which ballads are seen as being “constitutive of the poetry of the Romantic era” (23, quoting McLane), and shows how political songs often used the melodies of psalms. More importantly, Horgan offers much on the context in which Blake operated and sets out a compelling narrative on the interconnectedness between songs, psalms, and ballads, demonstrating the role of political songs in shaping political, literary, and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Keywords: century; horgan; politics; songs
• Allen Ginsberg, The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience by Walker, Luke (2018) - But the resumed Blake recording sessions of the early seventies coincided not only with his decision to take formal vows of refuge in Tibetan Buddhism, but also with an acceleration of his reading as he prepared to teach a series of literature classes on Blake. There are several reasons why this 2017 album release represents a significant moment for anyone interested in the role played by William Blake in shaping the counterculture of the sixties (and the role of that counterculture in shaping academic and popular understandings of Blake). Keywords: album; blake; dylan; ginsberg; music; sessions; songs
• James Rovira, ed., Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 by Yoder, R. Paul (2020) - As such, they build on demonstrable points of contact between the Romantic writer and rock music—​Jagger recites a Shelley poem, Dylan discusses Blake with Ginsberg, Redbone records Blake songs, U2 explicitly cite Blake as an influence, and Brown relates The Prelude to a variety of top 40 hits. In “Tangled Up in Blake: The Triangular Relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the Beats,” Walker invokes a “Blakean Romanticism” (7) as he examines the “complex set of personal and cultural anxieties relating to influence and canonicity, Romanticism and counterculture, Beat poetry and rock music, and [how] these interlinked anxieties provide the key contexts for Dylan’s relationship with the poetry of William Blake” (1). Keywords: blake; dylan; essays; music; rock; romanticism; songs; wordsworth
• Sendak and Blake Illustrating “Songs of Innocence” with an Essay by Prof. Robert N. Essick by Crosby, Mark (2020) - Maurice Sendak studied Blake’s art and poetry,I would like to thank Robert N. Essick and Justin G. Schiller for fielding my queries about the fall 2018 exhibition of Sendak drawings at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Sendak, “The Coming Together of All My Various Worlds: Maurice Sendak on Receiving the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator’s Medal,” Top of the News 26 (1970): 368. Keywords: blake; essick; innocence; sendak; songs

• William Blake and British Visionary Art, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow by Serdechnaya, Vera (2013) - Review: William Blake and British Visionary Art, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow William Blake and British Visionary Art. [William Blake and the British Visionaries. Keywords: blake; exhibition; museum; works
• William Blake (1757–1827): Visiones en el arte británico, CaixaForum Madrid by Ferreira, Michelle (2013) - Works exemplifying the variety of materials used by Blake, such as canvas atop cardboard, iron, or pine—the latter used for Winter (c. 1820-25), which is nearly completely white—were displayed alongside the spiritual portraits of contemporaries William Pitt and Lord Nelson. A collaboration between Spain’s La Caixa Foundation—also the organizers of the nation’s first showing of Blake in 1996—and Tate Britain, the exhibition presented Blake as a leading icon of British art, a rebel artist who inspired subsequent generations of artists. Keywords: artist; blake; exhibition; madrid; works
• William Blake’s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 February–19 May 2024; William Blake’s Universe, ed. David Bindman and Esther Chadwick by Calè, Luisa (2025) - Around them, on the two side walls, self-portraits of James Barry, Flaxman, Henry Fuseli, Samuel Palmer, Asmus Jakob Carstens, and Caspar David Friedrich, along with portraits of Blake by John Linnell, Flaxman, and Catherine Blake, announced the cast of characters that made up Blake’s universe within a European context. The William Blake Exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 1975,” The Reception of William Blake in Europe, ed. Keywords: blake; catalogue; essay; europe; exhibition; fitzwilliam; future; german; jerusalem; museum; plates; present; runge; stedman; universe; wall; william blake; works
• Michael Phillips, ed., William Blake (1757–1827): Le Génie visionnaire du romantisme anglais by Simpson, Philippa (2011) - Both the show and the book, an illustrated col- lection of essays and other reactions written in or translated into French, were clearly shaped by the need to (re)introduce Blake to a French audience. At the Petit Palais, by reuniting se- ries of drawings, prints, and paintings, attention was focused instead upon the processes involved in Blake’s image-making and his role as a visual artist, not to overturn but to augment the received perception of him as a writer. Keywords: artist; blake; catalogue; phillips; works

• William Blake’s Visionary Landscape near Felpham by Roberts, Jonathan (2013) - This indicates that the sketch was not made during Blake’s initial visit to Felpham in July 1800,He was in Felpham for most of July 1800: “On 5 July 1800, Flaxman sent with Blake a letter and gifts to Hayley, and on 16 July Hayley wrote to Flaxman that ‘our good enthusiastic Friend Blake will … extend the time of his Residence in the south a little longer than we at first proposed’” In academic studies, the reverse has been true: the scholarly discussion of Blake and religion continues to flourish, and since the early 1990s in particular has sought a more detailed understanding of the material and cultural contexts of Blake’s religion,Blake is at the heart of the ferment of interest in London’s dissenting subcultures catalyzed by Jon Mee’s Dangerous Enthusiasm (1992) and discussed in a range of subsequent works, including E. P. Thompson’s Witness against the Beast (1993), Robert Rix’s William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (2007), Magnus Ankarsjö’s William Blake and Religion (2009), and a host of essay collections and journal articles. Keywords: blake; butts; cottage; felpham; friend; friend butts; god; heaven; jacob; jesus; ladder; letter; life; light; man; milton; new; poem; satan; sea; sketch; sun; time; vision; william blake; work
• Claire Colebrook, Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital by Lussier, Mark (2014) - Judging from the critical work put into play throughout the book, it would be easy to assume that this type of engagement is completely new, yet that would be an error in judgment and in research, since a number of Blake scholars, including myself, have sought to position the assessment of Blake upon this same theoretical ground. As she states in her conclusion, “Two centuries of Blake criticism have followed from the working through of those moments in his poetry that are resistant to synthesis[,] with criticism having to repeat, master, narrativize, and trace the geneses of the inassimilable” (136). Keywords: aesthetics; blake; colebrook; work
• “The Daughters Weave their Work in loud cries”: Blake, Slavery, and Cotton by Moyer, James F. (2015) - At the height of abolitionist outrage,All quotations from Blake are from The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. Erdman. In a Blakean inversion of figures, ships “swim the deep” while humans become lifeless; the ocean and its “deep” in Blake allude at times to the slave trade.  Keywords: african; albion; blake; children; cotton; daughters; england; factory; industrial; industry; jerusalem; labor; new; slavery; slaves; textile; visions; women; work; workers
• Roger Whitson and Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media by Trettien, Whitney Anne (2016) - Taking this question seriously demands, in Whitson and Whittaker’s estimation, “a truly social and digital media approach to Blake studies—one that can extend his influence beyond the literary approaches to his work and embrace the grassroots media ecosystem emerging in the early twenty-first century” (5). Drawing on trending topics in media studies and theory, Whitson and Whittaker chart new directions for the study and teaching of Blake, not just as an author but as what they call a “virtuality,” following Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Levi Bryant: the “condition under which different Blakes are produced and reproduced” (28). Keywords: blake; whitson; whittaker; work
• Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly, eds., Queer Blake by Mazzeo, Tilar J. (2016) - Steve Clark and David Worrall (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999) 212-30, and “Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books,” The Reception of Blake in the Orient, ed. Where Queer Blake is at its best, to my mind, is in those chapters where the essays are both historical and theoretical—where the writers explore both the center and the circumference of Blake’s representations of disparate sexualities. Keywords: blake; chapter; collection; queer; work
• William Blake: Apprentice and Master, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 4 December 2014–1 March 2015; Michael Phillips, William Blake: Apprentice and Master by Matthews, Susan (2016) - Emphasizing success rather than failure, Phillips presents Blake as “Master of His Trade”—at the least from 1785 to 1791, his achievement evidenced by Boydell’s 1787 commission for engraving Hogarth’s painting of The Beggar’s Opera. But in 2014–15, William Blake: Apprentice and Master presented an artisan who labored to master difficult processes—bearing no small resemblance to the curator, whose life work it has been to understand and to master the techniques used by Blake. Keywords: blake; catalogue; exhibition; master; phillips; work
• Attribution and Reproduction: Death Pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life by Essick, Robert N. (2022) - no one has questioned the belief (I am tempted to call it a fact) that Blake designed Death Pursuing in response to Cromek’s commission to illustrate The Grave.8 R. H. Cromek’s son, Thomas Hartley Cromek, wrote the following on the back of the mount: Illustration to “Urizen” – a poem by William Blake – who also made this drawing– It belonged to my father. Death Pursuing is also reproduced and discussed in essick and Morton d. paley, Robert Blair’s The Grave Illustrated by William Blake (london: scolar press, 1982) 75-76 and illus. Keywords: blake; butlin; cromek; death; drawing; grave; pencil; watercolors; work

• “Ah! Romney!”: Blake’s “Supernaculum” Portrait Engraving of George Romney by Crosby, Mark (2014) - Blake 1757–1827: A Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of William Blake Selected from Collections in the United States (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1939) 59, no. 104. For Hayley’s decision to choose Watson’s frontispiece over Blake’s, see also Paley, “William Blake, George Romney, and The Life of George Romney, Esq.” 58-59. Keywords: blake; engraving; essick; george; hayley; life; portrait; print; romney; watson
• Rediscovering William Hayley: A Review Article: Paul Foster, ed., with Diana Barsham, William Hayley (1745–1820) Poet, Biographer, and Libertarian: A Reassessment and William Hayley (1745–1820): Selected Poetry by Wittreich, Joseph (2015) - In Epic Poetry Hayley, without knowing it, was imagining into being a whole parcel of epic poems, the produce of British romanticism, which, with Milton as the transformative figure, would make not action but the human mind the main region of their song. Already radiating from Paradise Lost is “the odious dinn of Warr” (6.408): “Heav’n the seat of bliss / Brooks not the works of violence and Warr” (6.273-74).Quotations of Milton’s poetry are from The Complete Poetry of John Milton, ed. Keywords: blake; epic; essays; hayley; leonard; life; milton; newton; paradise; poems; poetry
• Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2015) - The life and career of the physician and poet Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and his relationships with contemporaries in science, business, and the arts have been extensively discussed over the last fifty years, but Martin Priestman’s book represents a major advance in elucidating Darwin’s poetic and intellectual accomplishments and in exploring the ways in which he responded to and influenced a wide variety of poets, artists, and thinkers. Even for readers of Blake who have studied The Loves of the Plants, Darwin’s epic poem on the sex lives of flowers based on the sexual classification system of Linnaeus, and read one or another of King-Hele’s books or the more focused studies of Darwin’s poetry in relation to Blake,Erasmus Darwin (1963), Doctor of Revolution: The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin (1977), Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (1999). Keywords: blake; darwin; erasmus; life; loves; plants; priestman
• Tobias Churton, Jerusalem! The Real Life of William Blake by Read, Dennis M. (2016) - Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision (2006) in suggesting that an exercise of sexuality promotes visionary states, a belief that Blake took from Swedenborg (151). Ralph Churton was a close contemporary of Blake, born three years earlier and dying four years later. Keywords: blake; churton; life; ralph

• Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus, Tate Liverpool, September 2016–September 2017 by Erle, Sibylle (2019) - Review: Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus (Tate Liverpool, 2016-17) Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus. In Liverpool, as part of Tate Liverpool’s In Focus series, Tracey Emin (b. 1963) and William Blake (1757–1827), two London-based artists, shared exhibition space for almost a year. Keywords: bed; blake; butlin; death; emin; exhibition; room; tate

• Hazard Adams, William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: A Study of A Descriptive Catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem by Yoder, R. Paul (2022) - Adams, William Blake on His Poetry and Painting Hazard Adams. In William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: A Study of A Descriptive Catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem, Adams “continues the study of William Blake’s prose writings begun with Blake’s Margins” (1).  Keywords: adams; blake; jerusalem; poetry
• Susanne M. Sklar, Blake’s Jerusalem as Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body by Yoder, R. Paul (2013) - Review: Susanne M. Sklar, Blake’s Jerusalem as Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body Susanne M. Sklar. In her examination of the character of Jerusalem, Sklar compares her to Christ, while also creating a context for Blake’s depiction that includes Jacob Boehme’s Sophia and the evangelist Southcott. Keywords: blake; chapter; jerusalem; poem; sklar; theatre
• “Jerusalem” Set to Music: A Selected Discography by Whittaker, Jason (2022) - Contents: A. Jerusalem. Contents: A. Jerusalem. Keywords: amazon; blake; contents; jerusalem; links; notes; spotify; voice
• G. A. Rosso, The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism by Yoder, R. Paul (2019) - I have my doubts about the prevalence of the separation of religious from critical thought in Blake studies, but I do take Rosso’s point: even Blake specialists can settle into an all too easy acceptance of certain “truths” that require periodic questioning and review. He is the author of articles on Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Blake, and Wordsworth. Keywords: blake; empire; jerusalem; rahab; religion; rosso
• Jason Whittaker, Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness by Oliveira, Camila (2025) - Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness is, beyond doubt, an indispensable book for Blake scholars and all those interested in understanding the recent history of England told through the reception of its most popular anthem. Jason Whittaker, Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness Jason Whittaker. Keywords: anthem; blake; england; hymn; jerusalem; parry; whittaker

• Blake, Duncan, and the Politics of Writing from Myth by Freedman, Linda (2013) - The particular implications of the reference to Blake, itself the starting point for Duncan’s “Variations on Two Dicta of William Blake,” will be discussed in more detail later in this section. Who Present, Past, & Future Sees—Three Cores of Bardic Attention: The Early Bards, William Blake and Robert Duncan (Hay-on-Wye: West House Books, 1995); Edward Larrissy, “Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg,” Blake and Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) 108-24; and Jerome McGann, “Art and Error: With Special Reference to the Poetry of Robert Duncan,” Modern Language Studies 27.2 (spring 1997): 9-22. Keywords: america; blake; duncan; form; myth; oothoon; poem; poetic; poetry; self; sense; touch; truth; vision; way; whitman; world
• The Mental Travellers: On Blake’s Reception by Nikolai Gumilyov by Serdechnaia, Vera (2021) - … Here we can already speak about the influence of … the English visionary poet William Blake, whose poetry Gumilyov undoubtedly encountered in his last stay in the West. It is very probable that Gumilyov, personally acquainted as he was with Yeats, worked with Yeats’s Poems of William Blake (1905), where the quatrains of “The Mental Traveller” are not numbered—​unlike Gilchrist/​Rossetti in 1863 and Ellis/​Yeats in 1893. Keywords: akhmatova; blake; gumilyov; moscow; poet; poetry; publ; russian; translation; traveller
• “Sick as a Rose”: William Blake in Leopoldo María Panero’s Poetry of Experience by Flores, Cristina (2021) - “La herencia maldita (Leopoldo María Panero y el virus del Romanticismo).” Se podrían llamar, en recuerdo de Blake, Proverbios infernales. Keywords: blake; completa; del; experience; leopoldo; maría; panero; poesía; poetry; que; rosa; rose; tiger

• A Sketch by Robert Blake Revealed by Essick, Robert N.; La Belle, Jenijoy (2016) - A Sketch by Robert Blake Revealed A Sketch by Robert Blake Revealed By Robert N. Essick and Jenijoy La Belle Robert N. Essick (professor emeritus, University of California, Riverside) and Jenijoy La Belle (professor emerita, California Institute of Technology) have been collecting and writing about Blake for fifty years. Robert Blake, Figure Studies (A Supplication?) Keywords: blake; left; right; robert
• Cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2023) - volume 56 number 4 spring 2023 B L A K E in Australia Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B Dante Running from the Three Beasts (National Gallery of Victoria); “Thomas Hayley” for Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture (collection of Robert N. Essick); Milton copy B, plate 32 (Huntington Library); and Illustrations of the Book of Job, plate numbered 15 (collection of Robert N. Essick). Keywords: blake; robert; university

• The “Linnell” Adam and Eve Asleep: The Case for the Defense by Butlin, Martin (2017) - I myself find the freedom of this motif rather refreshing, and there are precedents in other Blake works, in particular the first series of illustrations to the book of Job (Butlin 550 1 and 19; see also Butlin 551 19). He is the author of detailed catalogues of The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake and, with Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. Keywords: blake; butlin; collection; detail; eve
• Mark Crosby, ed., “William Blake’s Manuscripts,” Huntington Library Quarterly 80.3 (autumn 2017) by Graver, Bruce (2019) - Several of these studies were originally presented at a 2013 symposium at the Huntington Library, which, as Blake scholars know, houses one of the world’s finest Blake collections. The autumn 2017 special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, edited by Mark Crosby, is devoted to manuscript studies of the works of William Blake. Keywords: blake; collection; manuscript; prints

• Blake and Bloom, a Memorial Note by Gross, Kenneth (2020) - Blake was also crucial to Bloom’s radical account of poetic influence. It’s worth noting that Bloom first deployed this figure in his 1970 study of Yeats, where he mapped the Irish poet’s emergent struggle with the necessary if also deforming influences of Blake and Shelley. Keywords: blake; bloom; milton
• Brian Russell Graham, Speech Acts in Blake’s “Milton” by Rogers, Annise (2025) - Brian Russell Graham expertly examines Milton a Poem through a close reading that engages with performative speech act theory, using it to demonstrate the importance of the characters’ spoken lines and also to explain how the lack of any direct speech can help to bring about, or forestall, the impending apocalypse. Chapter 1 looks at what happens before Milton’s introduction to those characters, covering the Fall and the creation of Time and Space—​all of which, as Graham reveals, come about through performative speech acts. Keywords: graham; milton; speech

• G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Edwardses of Halifax: The Making and Selling of Beautiful Books in London and Halifax, 1749–1826 by Rovira, James (2017) - James published a catalogue of books for sale in 1785, which immediately established him as a prominent seller of antiquarian books, and additional catalogues in 1787, 1789, 1790, 1794, and 1796. Bentley observes that “almost all Richard Edwards’s publications advertise their Church and King fervour, many of them using history to support the status quo” (162). Keywords: bentley; books; halifax; james; richard

• Blake and Stedman as Costumiers: Curious Copies of Blake’s Engravings in 1821 by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2013) - Samuel Ödmann (Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1800), 8º, taken from Sprengel, Stedman pl. 19; and 7. Viaggio al Surinam e The woman at the left is Stedman’s wife/mistress, the fifteen-year-old Joanna, represented in Stedman pl. 8 (illus. 5), reversed, with new decorations in her hair.  Keywords: blake; ferrario; illus; narrative; quacy; snake; stedman; surinam; toronto; university; vol

• Paper and Watermarks in Blake’s An Island in the Moon by Castanedo, Fernando (2019) - But in times of war … several English paper mills became very patriotic and used the Royal Arms in Foolscap sheets” (correspondence of 13 September 2016). For watermarks in paper used by Blake, see Bentley, Blake Books 71-73 and Blake Books Supplement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) 40; Robert N. Essick, William Blake, Printmaker (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980); Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. Keywords: blake; countermark; document; gravell; island; paper; size; watermark
• Printing Imperfections in William Blake’s Virgil Wood Engravings and What They Reveal by Wilson, Louise (2022) - While most prints in the Ionides album are on China paper, at first sight the impressions of “With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow,” “Colinet’s Fond Desire Strange Lands to Know,” “Colinet Mocked by Two Boys,” and Calvert’s “The Ploughman” appear to be printed on Western laid paper. When light was shone through them, the distinctive alternating density of laid lines was not visible, and it became clear that they are printed on China paper, not Western laid paper as their appearance suggests. Keywords: blake; engravings; impressions; ink; lines; paper; printing; virgil; wood

• William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, ed. Michael Phillips by Mertz, J. B. (2013) - Readers familiar with the controversy concerning Blake’s printing methods (for instance, whether he printed his plates using one or two pulls), which occupied many pages of this journal in 2002,See Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi, “An Inquiry into William Blake’s Method of Color Printing,” Blake 35.3 (winter 2001-02): 74-103; Michael Phillips, “Color-Printing Songs of Experience and Blake’s Method of Registration: A Correction,” Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 44-45; Martin Butlin, “‘Is This a Private War or Can Anyone Join In?’: A Plea for a Broader Look at Blake’s Color-Printing Techniques,” Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 45-49; Essick and Viscomi, “Blake’s Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further Observations,” Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 49-64; Butlin, “William Blake, S. W. Hayter and Color Printing,” Blake (2002) Phillips devotes considerable space in his introduction to developing the argument that The Marriage “made its first public appearance in 1793 rather than 1790” (42).For arguments in favor of 1790 as the year of completion, see Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) 233-34 and 237; Viscomi, “The Evolution of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1997): 284-85; Viscomi, “The Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion, ed. Keywords: blake; edition; marriage; phillips; plate
• New Information about William Blake’s Pre-Publication Proofs of His Job Engravings by Sung, Mei-Ying (2015) - Published state: Adding some more lines to the whirlwind in the upper border, e.g., the top left corner, left of the inscription “Who is this ….” Plate 14: state 5 See enlargement States 1 to 3 of plate 14 have the central design only; the Rosenbloom proof is similar to Essick’s state 4, which has the border design added. State 5 [Essick’s state 4] (Linnell B-4191, B-4192; Riches; White): Darkening the central design; clearing the upper frame of the central design and defining it with two straight lines as in state 3; removing the rays of God’s mandorla and the child angels in this area, but leaving the cloud lines above the upper frame of the central design. Keywords: blake; border design; central; essick; job; lines; linnell; new; plate; proof; rosenbloom; rosenbloom proof; rosenbloom state; state
• Blake and Exhibitions, 2017 by Calè, Luisa (2018) - British Museum registration number: 1859,0625.2. British Museum registration number: 1847,0318.93.100. Keywords: blake; british; museum; night; plate
• Violence, Death, and Autoeroticism: The Alternative Self-Annihilation in Visions of the Daughters of Albion by Chen, Kang-Po (2021) - Visions is regarded in Blake studies as an allegorical critique of plantation slavery and the institution of marriage from a historicist point of view. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Keywords: autoeroticism; blake; bromion; desire; imagination; love; masturbation; oothoon; plate; pleasure; rape; rousseau; self; theotormon; university; violence; visions
• R. Paul Yoder, The Narrative Structure of William Blake’s Poem Jerusalem: A Revisionist Interpretation by Rothenberg, Molly Anne (2012) - Yoder takes his cue from richard Lanham and Julia Wright to articulate the ways in which Blake’s unusually opaque style demands that readers oscillate between look- ing at the style and looking through the style. Yoder closely reads a large number of plates both to demonstrate the pres- ence of an oscillation between clarity and obscurity of the nar- rative and to indicate how Blake is seeking actively to trans- form his reader to learn what Albion must learn about the unity of mankind and individuality of minute particulars. Keywords: blake; chapter; luca; narrative; plate; poem; yoder

• Eric Pyle, William Blake’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors by Sherman, Mark A. (2017) - Pyle, for his part, advocates a complex, nuanced relationship toward the work in which Blake undertook the more congenial enterprise of “correcting” Dante, a poet whom he admired but whose religious views were at odds with his own antinomianism. As Pyle describes it, Blake saw the relationship as “a partnership” (14), “a respectful engagement, full of loving corrections, the development of opportunities missed in the original poem, and the fulfillment of those parts where Dante, through his more restricted view of God, fell short” (267-68). Keywords: blake; comedy; dante; divine; illustrations; paradiso; pyle

• An Overannotated “Auguries of Innocence” by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2020) - Recently, in reviewing two new editions of Blake, I used “Auguries of Innocence” as a test case to assess the explanatory notes provided by the editors. Blake dismissed the ancient Romans as “slaves of the Sword“ (E 95), victimizers and victims of a pervasive and pernicious imperial culture of war; by adding “of Innocence” to “Auguries” in the title he suggests a distinction between his benign visionary practice and the corrupt Roman form. Keywords: auguries; blake; cruelty; form; god; heaven; hell; innocence; lines; poem; poison; soul
• Blake’s Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in “Holy Thursday” (Innocence) by Cauchi, Francesca (2025) - In other words, the battalion-like “companies” of charity children on the left-hand side of the line are juxtaposed to the angelic-like host on the right—​a positioning that recalls Christ’s seat at the right hand of God (1 Peter 3:22; Acts 7:55-56). unison is likened to a thunderous aural assault upon the celestial realm; the beadles who in the first stanza had “walkd before” their charges are now seated “beneath” the cherubic children in accordance with the synoptic Gospels: “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:16); and the ironic epithet “wise guardians” is a warning to the old beadles to exercise less of the guard and more of the guardian angel lest they find themselves driven from the “door” of heaven—​the door, moreover, that is eternally open to the “little children.” Keywords: blake; charity; children; innocence; line; poem; stanza; thursday

• Karen Mulhallen, ed., Blake in Our Time by Wittreich, Joseph (2022) - Blake in Our Time is a magnificent tribute to G. E. Bentley, Jr.—one of the titans in Blake studies of the last, as well as current, century—whose work has “shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the ‘Minute Particulars’ of Blake’s life and work,” with Bentley thus launching what is here described as “now the most productive field of inquiry in Blake studies” ([3]).  ”G. E. Bentley, Jr., speaking of Blake, in The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) xxvi.  Keywords: bentley; blake; essays; studies; time
• Gerald E. Bentley, Jr., William Blake’s Conversations: A Compilation, Concordance, and Rhetorical Analysis by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2022) - But given that “the Blake Archive’s primary purpose is for studying Blake rather than reading him” and that its “primary audience is a scholarly one” (note 8), one senses the predicament concerning audience underlying their disclosure that “uncertainty about the long-term future of the Blake Archive … motivates our goals and decisions today …” (par. 46). The “only justifica- tion” for such tampering is that “to do so brings us nearer to Blake” (par. 26). Keywords: bentley; blake; conversation; par; readers; words

• James Blake of Rotherhithe, Timber Merchant by Ripley, Wayne C. (2020) - identity of William Blake’s paternal grandfather, James Blake I,As this formulation suggests, I refer in this note to Blake’s grandfather as James Blake I and his father as James Blake II. rests on two documents associated with Blake’s father: first, James Blake II’s apprenticeship indenture with the linen draper Francis Smith, where James Blake I is identified as “James Blake of Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey Gentleman,”G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. James Blake of Ratcliff had a son and a grandson named James (like Blake’s father and brother), a wife named Elizabeth (like Blake’s paternal grandmother and the middle name of his sister), a brother named John (like Blake’s brothers—one of whom died before the other was born),Bentley’s claim that James Blake II had a brother named John is not supported by any documentary evidence. Keywords: blake; james; rotherhithe

• Christopher M. Bundock, Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism by James, John Patrick (2019) - He cites Alexander Gilchrist, who complains in his 1863 Life of William Blake that America a Prophecy “has no distinctly seizable pretensions to a prophetic character, being, like the rest of Blake’s ‘Books of Prophecy,’ rather a retrospect, in its mystic way, of events already transpired” (quoted in Bundock 169). Because Bundock reconfigures the manner in which scholars have traditionally thought about prophecy, as both a literary mode and a form of mystic insight, his Blake chapters offer a trenchant reconsideration of Blake’s prophetic writings. Keywords: blake; bundock; history; prophecy; university

• A Blake Riddle: The Diagonal Pencil Inscription in An Island in the Moon by Castanedo, Fernando (2018) - As is well known, the title is not Blake’s, but was adapted by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats from the opening words of the text (Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, eds., The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical [London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893] 1: 187). Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings [1957; London: Oxford University Press, 1966] 62); “Here a leaf or more is missing” (David V. Erdman, ed., The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake [1965; New York: Anchor-Random House, 1988] 465); “Four or more pages seem to be missing from the manuscript at this point” (G. E. Bentley, Jr., ed., William Blake’s Writings Keywords: blake; chapter; folios; inscription; island; leaves; line; manuscript; pages; pencil; recto; verso

• Peter Otto, ed., William Blake; Nicholas Shrimpton, ed., William Blake: Selected Poems by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2020) - They have “in practice, been made by removing the modernizing editorial interventions from the text established by Geoffrey Keynes in 1957 …” (xxxvii), restoring Blake’s spelling and capitalization, then supplying punctuation based on several sources (but not, as far as I can tell, by examining actual copies of Blake books). That is also true of his “Chronology of William Blake,” which is more thorough than most in placing Blake and his works (including omitted ones) in the context of culture and politics of his time, but does not indicate to beginners which juxtapositions are significant or why. Keywords: blake; edition; notes; otto; oxford; shrimpton
• Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck, eds., Editing and Reading Blake by Hilton, Nelson (2022) - But given that “the Blake Archive’s primary purpose is for studying Blake rather than reading him” and that its “primary audience is a scholarly one” (note 8), one senses the predicament concerning audience underlying their disclosure that “uncertainty about the long-term future of the Blake Archive … motivates our goals and decisions today …” (par. 46). 92 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Winter 2011-12 be the model for any future uses of immersive textuality in approaching Blake” (par. 35). Keywords: archive; blake; editing; edition; note; par; readers; text

• Joseph Fletcher, William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788–1795 by Rovira, James (2023) - Fletcher associates Blake with a “Platonically derived pantheism” (49), so that Blake identifies God not only with humanity but with the entire material universe. It’s possible that one of the greatest insights into Blake that Fletcher offers is the interrelatedness of these two questions: What was Blake’s religion or theology? Keywords: blake; chapter; fletcher; pantheism; philosophy; position; reading

• Blake, Paul, and Sexual Antinomianism by Hobson, Christopher Z. (2019) - These are why, despite Mark 3.29, the Jesus Blake imagines cannot condemn the behavior he has differentiated from love but must forgive it: if, indeed, having sex for the wrong reasons “hath never forgiveness,” who can hope to be forgiven?Moskal’s brief discussion of “Was Jesus Chaste” (41-42) misses this concern with Generation. This necessity also means that the Jesus seen in lines 1-80 has not yet become the Jesus Blake wishes us to see. Keywords: blake; body; christ; divine; generation; god; holy; human; image; jesus; law; lines; love; mary; new; paul; sin; temple

• Tate Britain’s New Blake Room by Paley, Morton D. (2015) - 1939 Nine of Blake’s large color prints are presented to the Tate by Robertson. 1947 August–September William Blake (1757–1827) is held at the Tate. 2003–04 William Blake: The Painter at Work, a display and accompanying book, present technical research into Blake’s painting techniques. Keywords: blake; britain; gallery; tate
• William Blake, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, 4 April–31 August 2014 by Knowles, Claire (2015) - William Blake, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne William Blake. This exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria International features the world-class collection of Blake works housed there, an impressive 124 individual items spanning the length of his career. Keywords: blake; gallery; national

• Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century by Schuchard, Marsha Keith (2017) - Though, as mentioned, Peucker’s book does not include Catherine Armitage and William Blake, his painstaking and thorough examination of the surviving German archival sources and his open-minded and even-handed analysis of their historical and religious significance make his book an important resource for Blake scholars. $84.95, hardcover; $24.95, paperback. Reviewed by Marsha Keith Schuchard Marsha Keith Schuchard (keithschuchard@gmail.com), PhD, independent scholar, has published many articles on Blake and his circle, as well as the books Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture (Brill, 2002), Why Mrs. Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision (Random House, 2006), Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden (Brill, 2012), and Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics: From Jonathan Swift to Henry Fielding (forthcoming). Keywords: blake; peucker; sifting; time

• Mike Goode, Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media by Rovira, James (2022) - While Goode constructs his argument from a number of names familiar to Romanticists and Blake scholars, mentioning authors ranging from Frye, Erdman, Worrall, Raine, and Mitchell to Roger Whitson, Tilottama Rajan, Jason Whittaker, Andrew Burkett, Mark Lussier, Ron Broglio, and Marcel O’Gorman, his readings of Blake feel new and original. The two on Blake are divided between written texts, specifically the Proverbs of Hell (chapter 2, “Blakespotting”), and visual texts (chapter 3, “The Joy of Looking: What William Blake’s Pictures Want”). Keywords: blake; goode; media; proverbs; text

• G. E. Bentley, Jr., Thomas Macklin (1752–1800), Picture-Publisher and Patron: Creator of the Macklin Bible (1791–1800) by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2018) - Macklin also published some illustrated Shakespeare and many other British authors, including volumes of literary prints without texts, but his most important venture was Macklin’s Bible, an “English” text that added a gloss of safely Protestant piety to the other appealing characteristics of deluxe illustrated editions. Review: G. E. Bentley, Jr., Thomas Macklin (1752-1800), Picture-Publisher and Patron G. E. Bentley, Jr., with a foreword by Mark Crosby. Keywords: bible; blake; macklin; prints

• All Religions are One: A Note on Sources by Rix, Robert W. (2016) - In seven “principles,” Blake sets out to prove that a spiritual dimension of man, which he names the “Poetic Genius,” exists, and that this has been the origin of all religions. Blake’s key term “Poetic Genius” is also directly linked to a Swedenborgian context, insofar as it appears twice in Blake’s annotations to the English translation of Swedenborg’s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788). Keywords: blake; divine; genius; man; religions; spirit; swedenborg
• Lucy Cogan, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy by Rosso, G. A. (2023) - Review: Lucy Cogan, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy Lucy Cogan. Blake and the Failure of Prophecy. Keywords: action; blake; cogan; divine; failure; los; new; prophecy; prophet; visionary

• Sibylle Erle, Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy by Connolly, Tristanne (2014) - She is the author of William Blake and the Body (2002) and co-editor of the essay collections Queer Blake (2010) and Sexy Blake (2013) with Helen P. Bruder and Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture (2012) with Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker. He visited the Royal Academy in 1789, so Erle imagines Blake might have encountered him then through Fuseli. Keywords: blake; erle; lavater; physiognomy; urizen
• “If you want to learn the secrets, close your eyes”: Bruce Dickinson’s “Gates of Urizen” as Contrary Version of The [First] Book of Urizen by Hagen, Katharina (2021) - Quotations from Urizen are from its latest realization, copy G. Urizen is introduced as a “dark power” that has hidden in obscurity, a lurking threat. “Gates,” however, proclaims contrast, earthbound Urizen versus airborne Los, and Dickinson provides an alternative ending to Blake’s text. Keywords: blake; bruce; chemical; dickinson; eyes; gates; los; object; urizen; wedding

• Уильям Блейк, Песни невинности и опыта: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Serdechnaya, Vera (2013) - Kruzhkov’s preface introduces the reader to the history of Russian translations of Blake, in particular those of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Previous Russian editions of Blake sorely lack such commentary. Keywords: blake; russian; translations
• Dmitri Smirnov, 1948–2020 by Serdechnaia, Vera (2020) - It is hard to imagine that Dmitri Smirnov, an enthusiast and inspired man, a true connoisseur of William Blake, has left our world. ”“Blake and Music,” The Reception of William Blake in Europe, ed. Keywords: blake; music; russian; smirnov

• Laura Quinney, William Blake on Self and Soul by Connolly, Tristanne (2022) - such a judgmental view seems unfair to both Hayley and Blake in light of Mark Crosby’s work,1 and, less recently, the detailed and balanced picture of the relationship in G. e. Bentley, Jr.’s The Stranger from Paradise (2001) where, 1. such as Jon Mee and Mark Crosby, “‘This soldierlike Danger’: The Trial of William Blake for sedition,” Resisting Napoleon: reference would be enriching, for instance, to Matthew Green’s Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiri- cism (2005), and, within the bibliography’s time zone, Wayne Glausser’s Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eigh- teenth Century (1998) (which also sees a therapeutic motiva- tion in Blake’s work, and Locke’s). Keywords: blake; hayley; locke; quinney; self

• “Unentangled in the intricate windings of modern practice”: William Blake’s Apprentice Copperplates and Engravings by Crosby, Mark (2025) - Michael Phillips, Ad Stijnman, and Joseph Viscomi kindly read and commented on early drafts and Robert N. Essick offered generous advice on the minute particulars of line engraving. On the versos of three of the copperplates are incised linear patterns and motifs made with burins, a drypoint needle, and a compass, suggesting that these plates were used by an apprentice to practice and develop the techniques of line engraving. Keywords: archiox; blake; bodleian; copperplate; drawings; gough; hatching; libraries; lines; oxford; tombs; university; verso

• Blake’s Unfinished Series of Illustrations to Paradise Lost for John Linnell: An Addition by Butlin, Martin (2017) - Three examples of the Linnell series were known until the appearance of Adam and Eve Asleep, having been included in the catalogue by William Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, at the end of the first life of Blake, Alexander Gilchrist’s Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus,” published in 1863 and again, revised, in 1880. He is the author of detailed catalogues of The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake and, with Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. Keywords: adam; blake; eve; linnell; series

• Francis Quarles’s Influence on Europe 11 by Miner, Paul (2014) - All citations of Blake are from The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. Francis Quarles’s Influence on Europe 11 Francis Quarles’s Influence on Europe 11 By Paul Miner Paul Miner (paulminer@cableone.net) has written more than fifty studies on Blake. Keywords: blake; emblem; europe; quarles; sense

• Blake and Music, 2021 by Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason (2022) - Argoal — France The Chapel; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. 00:02:06. Argoal — France The Garden of Love; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. 00:03:48. Keywords: bandcamp; blake; guitar; link; streaming; track; voice
• Blake and Music, 2022 by Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason (2023) - Andy Brown’s Victorian Karaoke — UK From Andy Brown’s Victorian Karaoke ; for voice, guitar. [Chris Engels] — Germany From Tesla ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, synthesizers. Keywords: amazon; apple; guitar; links; spotify; streaming; track; voice
• Blake and Music, 2023 by Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason (2024) - Adlington, Lucy — UK From Daughters of Albion ; for voice, guitar, bass, and synthesizers. Amora, Roy, Manuel Arcamo, Arnold Cespon, and Jeffrey Malanog — Unknown The Divine Image ; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards. Keywords: amazon; apple; bass; drums; guitar; links; spotify; synthesizers; track; voice; youtube
• Blake and Music, 2024 by Oliveira, Camila (2025) - Boynton, Tommy —​ USA From Riches ; for voice and guitar. Carollo, John A. —​ USA From Awake Humanity to Nature’s Beauty ; for voice, piano, cello, and violin. Keywords: bass; drums; guitar; link; note; track; voice; youtube

• Timothy Morton, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology by Rubel, William Ilan (2025) - Northrop Frye cast Blake as an apocalyptic visionary who, like Jesus, met with trials and consolidated the “whole body of error in his society into a resolve to destroy him,”Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947) 403. In that sense, Morton contributes to an ongoing intervention into Blake studies. Keywords: blake; ecology; future; haptic; hell; imagination; morton; sense; tyger; wrath

• Blake and Music, 2018 by Whittaker, Jason (2019) - This was because of the addition of a considerable number of popular music settings that had been overlooked by Donald Fitch in his Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems and Prose of William Blake and the later “Blake Set to Music: Supplement 2001” in Blake 35.2 (fall 2001), and by Ashanka Kumari in “Adding to Blake Set to Music” in Blake 49.4 (spring 2016). He is the author of several works on William Blake, including William Blake and the Myths of Britain (Palgrave, 1999), Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827 (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), and Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-​Century Art, Music and Culture (with Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly, Palgrave, 2012). Keywords: amazon; apple; contents; links; spotify
• Blake and Music, 2019 by Whittaker, Jason (2020) - He is the author of several works on William Blake, including William Blake and the Myths of Britain (Palgrave, 1999), Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827 (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), and Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-​Century Art, Music and Culture (with Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly, Palgrave, 2012). His main research interests deal with the reception of Blake, and his next work, Divine Images: The Life and Works of William Blake, is to be published by Reaktion Books in November 2020. 2019 was something of an annus mirabilis in terms of settings of Blake to music, in the form of either direct adaptations of his poems or original songs based on his life and work. Keywords: amazon; apple; blake; contents; links; spotify
• Blake and Music, 2020 by Whittaker, Jason (2021) - Three William Blake Songs: No. 1, Infant Joy; 4. Three William Blake Songs: No. 2, My Pretty Rose Tree; 5. Keywords: amazon; apple; blake; contents; links; spotify

• Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly, eds., Sexy Blake by Rosso, G. A. (2016) - Whitehead and Gwynne build on the recent upsurge of biographical and fictional interest in Catherine Blake, showing that she was a “lifelong, proactive partner and collaborator” in Blake’s life and art (194). Reviewed by G. A. Rosso G. A. Rosso (rossoga1@gmail.com) has written and coedited a number of books and essays on Blake, including most recently The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism (2016), a study of Blake’s three long poems, The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. Keywords: blake; chastity; essays; gender; sexuality; volume; zoas

• Adam and Eve Asleep: A Dissent by Bindman, David (2017) - He is, as everyone knows, a great Blake scholar who has sorted out Blake’s artistic oeuvre in a magnificent two-volume work, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. This is not due to carelessness, to which Blake was occasionally prone; it is more than just loose drawing, for it loses the archangel’s sympathy for the earthly couple, which is so important to the meaning of the work, and it is not comparable to the drawing in the three 1820s Paradise Lost watercolors. Keywords: adam; blake
• A Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep by Essick, Robert N. (2017) - Martin Butlin has recently attributed to William Blake a previously unrecorded watercolor drawing of Adam and Eve Asleep based closely on the work of the same title in the series of Blake’s Paradise Lost designs commissioned by Thomas Butts in 1808.Butlin, “Blake’s Unfinished Series of Illustrations to Paradise Lost for John Linnell: For the Butts version, see Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (New Haven: Yale UP, 1981) Keywords: adam; blake; eve

• The Mathews as Patrons by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2022) - The 1,200-some subscribers include “Mr. Mathew,” “Mrs. Mathew,” and “Miss Mathew,” plus many duchesses, countesses, dukes and lords, and William Beckford, Esq. (author and patron), Mr. J[ohn] Hawkins (patron of Blake), Mr. Ozias Humphrey (painter), Mr. Jeremiah Meyer (miniaturist), “Mrs. Mathew | Miss Mathew Keywords: blake; flaxman; mathew; mrs

• Cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2024) - Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographers (music): Camila Oliveira, Jason Whittaker sales review editor: Mark Crosby managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Remembrance Morris Eaves, 1944–2024 By Morton D. Paley A List of Morris Eaves’s Publications Compiled by Wayne C. Ripley Article Blake in the Marketplace, 2023 B L A K E AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY For Morris VOLUME 57 NUMBER 4 SPRING 2024 Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B Keywords: editor; university
• Cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2024) - Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographers (music): Camila Oliveira, Jason Whittaker sales review editor: Mark Crosby managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Articles William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2023 By Wayne C. Ripley, with works in Romance languages contributed by Fernando Castanedo, works in Japanese contributed by Hikari Sato, works in Turkish contributed by Hüseyin Alhas, and works in Russian contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Blake and Exhibitions, 2023 By Luisa Calè Blake and Music, 2023 By Camila Oliveira and Jason Whittaker 58 no. 1 summer 2024 Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B Keywords: editor; university
• Cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2025) - Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographers (music): Camila Oliveira, Jason Whittaker sales review editor: Mark Crosby managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Articles “Symbols of embodied agency”: The Reception of William Blake’s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture By Caroline Anjali Ritchie “Unentangled in the intricate windings of modern practice”: William Blake’s Apprentice Copperplates and Engravings By Mark Crosby Reviews Brian Russell Graham, Speech Acts in Blake’s “Milton” Reviewed by Annise Rogers William Blake’s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 February–19 May 2024 William Blake’s Universe, ed. 58 | no. 3 | winter 2024–25 BLAKE an illustrated quarterly Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier, retired Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto A D V Keywords: blake; editor; university
• Our New Co-Editor by Paley, Morton D. (2025) - Our New Co-Editor WE are very happy to welcome as our co-editor Tilar J. Mazzeo. Before she left academics to pursue writing full time, Tilar was Clara C. Piper Associate Professor (and a former chair) of the English Department at Colby College. Keywords: editor
• Cover and table of contents by Jones, Sarah (2025) - Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Camila Oliveira sales review editor: Mark Crosby managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 News Our New Co-Editor By Morton D. Paley Articles Blake in the Marketplace, 2024 By Mark Crosby Blake’s Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in “Holy Thursday” (Innocence) Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier, retired Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto A D V Keywords: blake; editor; university

• Dennis M. Read, R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2022) - Going back more than thirty years, Dennis Read has published articles large and small about the activities of Blake’s associate Robert Hartley Cromek (1770–1812); in the most important of these, “The Rival Canterbury Pilgrims of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet” (Modern Philology, 1988), he showed that contrary to the account assembled by Gilchrist and echoed by most of Blake’s subsequent biographers, who hold that Cromek stole the idea from Blake, Blake’s Chaucer picture and engraving were conceived and created in response to the painting by Thomas Stothard and the projected engraving after it. This chapter would be stronger if it included a survey and some more examples of Cromek’s chalcographic output so that we could see his strengths and weaknesses, judge the trajectory of his career, or consider other ways that his engraving could shed light on his later projects, and on Blake’s. Keywords: blake; cromek; engraving; read

• The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas by Mertz, J. B. (2013) - The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas By J. B. Mertz J. B. Mertz (jeffrey_mertz@hotmail.com) is an adjunct professor of English at Lindenwood University. (Priestley’s Letters were not published until the second half of 1791, delayed several weeks by the mob’s burning of his home in Birmingham.)See Joseph Priestley, Letters to the Members of the New Jerusalem Church, Formed by Baron Swedenborg (Birmingham, 1791) iv-v. While Jon Mee has pointed out that Priestley’s “rationalism is often presented as making [him] irrelevant to Blake studies,”Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 6. Keywords: blake; church; marriage; new; priestley; swedenborg

• A Newly Discovered Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep by Viscomi, Joseph (2017) - Adam and Eve Asleep does not fit into the trio of Linnell designs, not in drawing or coloring style, the latter of which is flat and similar to its model but is a style that Blake hadn’t practiced in over a decade. Left: Adam and Eve Asleep, detail of angels’ heads. Keywords: blake; courtesy; eve

• James Rovira, Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety by Freeman, Kathryn (2012) - More prob- lematic than the claim that the binaries—science vs. religion, nature vs. artifice, and democracy vs. monarchy—exist within texts is Rovira’s assertion that Blake and Kierkegaard repre- sent, if not precisely two polarities, two sides of the study’s central binary, “creation and anxiety”: “Blake’s mythology rep- resents the ‘creation’ and Kierkegaard’s philosophy the ‘anxi- ety’ of creation anxiety” (2). Just as this synthesis of history and subjectivity offers a rethinking of Blake and of Kierkegaard, Rovira’s revision of Derridean deconstruction from the hindsight of new histori- cism challenges the assumption of mutual exclusion between the two theoretical positions. Keywords: blake; creation; kierkegaard; rovira

• Joshua Schouten de Jel, William Blake’s Divine Love: Visions of Oothoon by Saral, Ramazan (2025) - Schouten de Jel draws parallels between Michelangelo’s Tityus drawing and Blake’s depiction of Oothoon, especially on plate 6, claiming that “such a model transposed a ‘core artistic vocabulary’ which imbues Oothoon’s self-annihilation in Visions with eschatological signification” (95, quoting Edina Adam and Julian Brooks). In this very detailed and well-researched work, Schouten de Jel analyzes Oothoon’s spiritual transformation as an expression of divine love through self-annihilation. Keywords: blake; oothoon

• Michael Farrell, Blake and the Methodists by Lincoln, Andrew (2016) - Against Thompson, Farrell points out that Blake “undeniably held sympathies towards” Methodism, as shown by the positive allusions to Whitefield and Wesley in Milton and Jerusalem (8). Farrell’s detailed comparison of Blake and Wesley includes a chapter on hymnody, which builds on and extends the work of other scholars. Keywords: blake; comparison; differences; farrell; hymns; wesley

• Matthew Leporati, Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire by Whittaker, Jason (2024) - He is the author and editor of several works on Blake, including William Blake and the Myths of Britain (Palgrave, 1999), Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827 (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake (Reaktion Books, 2021), and Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness (Oxford University Press, 2022). As he points out in chapter 3, “Heroes of Conquest and Conversion,” many epics were deliberately and openly instructive—​dogmatic, even—​following the model laid down by Archbishop Fénelon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699). Keywords: blake; empire; epic; leporati

• Susan Matthews, Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness by Erle, Sibylle (2014) - Matthews’s book is a fierce, fascinating, and passionate response to the last thirty years in Blake studies; it revisits the debates initiated by the feminists to claim that Blake’s opinion of both gender and sexuality can only make sense if firmly placed into their historical linguistic context. Review: Susan Matthews, Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness Susan Matthews. Keywords: blake; bourgeois; female; matthews; sexuality

• Elizabeth B. Bentley, ed., George Cumberland, The Emigrants or A Trip to the Ohio, a Theatrical Farce (1817) by Rovira, James (2016) - Review: Elizabeth B. Bentley, ed., George Cumberland, The Emigrants or A Trip to the Ohio George Cumberland. To these Bentley adds an extensive bibliography and an index of names along with two appendices, one listing her addition of parentheses when necessary and the other listing further editorial interventions in Cumberland’s punctuation. Keywords: acres; cumberland; play

• Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible by Freedman, Linda (2013) - Rowland is broadly supportive of existing work on Blake and religion and is extremely generous in his allusions to other Blake scholars. Review: Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible Christopher Rowland. Keywords: bible; blake; rowland

• Harpers and Other Drawings: The Case for a Unified Composition by Butlin, Martin (2013) - This is distinct from the drawings on the reverse of the paper, which in spite of the very basic landscape element linking the figures across the bottom and hints of clouds linking some of the figures above, are to all intents and purposes studies of individual figures or groups of figures, most of which later reappear in America or Europe; both recto and verso are conveniently reproduced facing each other in Libson’s catalogue. However, the only other known pair of figures playing harps is Har and Heva in the lost fifth illustration to Tiriel. Keywords: blake; figures

• Jonathan Roberts, Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. by Graver, Bruce (2014) - Rather, he focuses on Blake’s verse letter to Thomas Butts, “To my Friend Butts I write,” and on the Solitary’s vision of the heavenly Jerusalem in book 2 of Wordsworth’s The Excursion, and uses them to demonstrate how poetry offers “a different type of engagement with religion: one that can enrich rather than narrow understanding, include rather than exclude, and creatively interrelate—rather than destructively set at odds—different approaches to religion” (1). Review: Jonathan Roberts, Blake. Keywords: roberts; wordsworth

• Blake’s Priestly Blessing: God Blesses Job—Postscript by Shiff, Abraham Samuel (2016) - G. E. Bentley, Jr.’s reportG. E. Bentley, Jr., et al., “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015,” Blake 50.1 (summer 2016): par. 9, “Previously Unknown Copy of a Book Owned by Blake.” of a newly discovered book owned by Blake, The History of the Present Jews,Leo Modena, The History of the Present Jews throughout the World. Keywords: blake; blessing

• Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry by Choe, Sharon (2024) - Review: Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry Andrew M. Cooper. Her doctoral research examined Blake’s engagement with Old Norse myth and culture in his development of a disabled body politic. Keywords: bastard; blake; cooper; geometry

• Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Augurios de inocencia by Gourlay, Alexander S. (2022) - Review: Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Augurios de inocencia Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans. On the back cover Castanedo explains his title by referring to a tradition of naming a manuscript collection after its “most celebrated” poem. Keywords: blake; castanedo

• G. E. Bentley, Jr., Boondoggles: Travels of a Restless Professor by Jones, Sarah (2019) - (109) Once, when I asked Jerry about a speculation regarding Blake in one of his articles, he replied that it would have been agreeable had it been so. That Sarah and Julia brought the project to fruition is appropriate, as the stories revolve around family and derive from the many letters that Jerry wrote to family and friends. Keywords: blake; boondoggles; jerry

• “Mr CLAY of Hercules Buildings” by Whitehead, Angus (2022) - If William and Catherine Blake were unable to move into the house until the end of January, their move from 28 Poland Street to 13 Hercules Buildings can be dated between 24 January 1791, the earliest date we can assume Clay vacated the premises after being robbed by his housekeeper,6 and 9 March 1791, when Blake is first recorded as ratepayer for the property.7 4. Rate book entries for 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, re- veal that by early March 1791 the Blakes had moved from their former residence at 28 Poland Street, Soho, to their new house.2 In the second edition of Blake Records (2004), G. E. Bentley, Jr., suggests that the Blakes may have moved to 13 Hercules Buildings as early as “the autumn of 1790” or at least “before the end of 1790.”3 Keywords: blake; buildings; clay; hercules
• denouement by Miner, Paul (2022) - If William and Catherine Blake were unable to move into the house until the end of January, their move from 28 Poland Street to 13 Hercules Buildings can be dated between 24 January 1791, the earliest date we can assume Clay vacated the premises after being robbed by his housekeeper,6 and 9 March 1791, when Blake is first recorded as ratepayer for the property.7 4. 144 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Spring 2012 goods, which were to have been sold the next day, had not this good Lady saved him the trouble of doing so.4 “Mr CLAY of Hercules Buildings” can be identified as the Blakes’ predecessor as ratepayer and resident at 13 Hercules Buildings, William Clay.5 Keywords: buildings; hercules

• The Blake Memorial Window by Crosby, Mark (2022) - The Blake memorial window was commissioned by St. Mary’s parish council in 2007 and was funded by the generous contributions of Felpham parishioners and Blake enthusiasts and by donations raised through local charitable events celebrating the 250th anniversary of Blake’s birth. The window was designed by the artist Meg Lawrence, whose work also includes painting with an egg-based tempera medium on wood panels, a medium similar to the one that Blake used, with animal glue and gum Arabic as the binding agents instead of egg, for some of his 1799 illustrations of the Bible. Keywords: blake; lawrence; window

• Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs by Bentley, G. E. (2014) - First Blair prospectus (1805) (drawing in the collection of Alan Parker) “Death pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life” First Blair prospectus (1805) (drawing in the collection of Robert N. Essick) “Friendship”Some titles of the watercolors sold in 2006 that were not engraved appear to bear no authority from Blake: “The Grave Personified” (Price), “While Surfeited upon thy Damask Cheek” (Anon.), “A Father and two children Beside an Open Grave” (Anon.), “Heaven’s Portals Wide Expand to Let Him In” (Essick), and “Our Time Is Fixed” (Anon.). Keywords: inscriptions

• The History of William Blake’s Job Prints by Butlin, Martin (2016) - He is the author of detailed catalogues of The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake and, with Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. Keywords: blake; proofs

• William Blake of the Woolpack & Peacock by Bentley, Jr., G. E. (2016) - The sum was enormous, the equivalent of six weeks of goods sold by James Blake, father and son, to the St. James Parish Workhouse and Schoolhouse in 1782–84 (£8.3.19).Bentley, Blake Records, 2nd ed. The shop title may be seen in the elegant engraved bill-head made out by James Blake, the poet’s father, to the prodigious botanist Joseph Banks. Keywords: banks; bill; blake; shop; yards

• Opera Omaha and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Stranger from Paradise by Girten, Kristin M. (2018) - What is William Blake doing in the land of Willa Cather? Omaha, Nebraska, was in bloom with Blake this past May. Keywords: blake; lawler; omaha; opera; stranger

• My Poison Tree by Portnoff, Sharon (2018) - My Poison Tree My Poison Tree By Sharon Portnoff Sharon Portnoff holds the Elie Wiesel Chair in Judaic Studies and is associate professor of religious studies at Connecticut College. Her poems have appeared in Midstream, the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Poetry Porch <http://​poetryporch.​com>, and in the collection Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Keywords: tree

• William Blake, Vahiy Kitapları [Prophetic Works], trans. Kaan H. Ökten by Saral, Ramazan (2019) - William Blake, Vahiy Kitapları [Prophetic Works], trans. Kaan H. Ökten William Blake. Keywords: blake; ökten

• Kathryn S. Freeman, A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake by Rovira, James (2020) - Overall, while Freeman did not write the one Blake encyclopedia to rule them all, she has put together a very useful work that should be kept alongside Damon’s Dictionary and supplements to it available in Blake scholarship. Supplements have been published since Damon’s time, including Alexander Gourlay’s “A Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake” in The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003), which he republished in expanded form on the William Blake Archive website, but nothing has appeared until now on the scale of the 181 entries Freeman has written. Keywords: blake; entry; freeman

• The Publisher Not Mad by Mulhallen, Karen (2020) - It is possible that the uncolored Night Thoughts remainders were given to Blake in part payment for his work with Richard Edwards at this time and not, as the Tate catalogue states, after Richard’s demise, since Blake and Edwards died in the same year, 1827, Blake in August and Richard in October. Given the facts of Richard Edwards’s life, I was surprised to read in the Tate Britain exhibition catalogue (p. 105), “After Edwards’s demise (he had become insane), Blake seems to have acquired a stock of the Night Thoughts publication and hand-coloured these for patrons, creating a luxurious new version of the illustrations for them.” Keywords: blake; edwards

• Adam Komisaruk, Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One by Schuchard, Marsha Keith (2022) - Reviewed by Marsha Keith Schuchard Marsha Keith Schuchard is an independent literary historian who has recently published the books Masonic Rivalries and Literary Politics: From Jonathan Swift to Henry Fielding (Amazon/​Gauthier Pierozak Editeur, 2018) and A Concatenation of Conspiracies: “Irish” William Blake and Illuminist Freemasonry in 1798 (Plumbstone Academic Press, 2021). While a large part of his narration focuses on these modern theoreticians, he also includes thematic readings of imaginative literature by Mary Hays, William Beckford, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Erasmus Darwin, and finally William Blake. Keywords: blake; komisaruk

• Construing “Har”: Blake’s Polyglot Roots by Alexander S. Gourlay (2024) - Snorri’s wily King Har is definitely not senile, and not at all like simple-hearted unpretentious Adam, innocent or fallen, even if we imagine him grown old and querulous:  if Blake remembered the god/​king Har when he named the character in Tiriel, he must have forgotten what Har was like in the Edda. It is certainly possible that in imagining Har Blake dredged up an exotic name from somewhere in his consciousness and intended no literary or linguistic allusion at all. Keywords: blake; har; tiriel

• Morris Eaves, 1944–2024 by Paley, Morton D. (2024) - Remembrance Morris Eaves, 1944–2024 By Morton D. Paley Like Morris’s other friends, I find it hard to believe that his wonderful intelligence, energy, and humor are gone. Morris and Georgia were wonderful cooks and intrepid explorers of restaurants, and they engaged their friends deeply in the Sublime of Food. Keywords: morris

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