[{"id": "blake-100", "words": "6130", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Borkowska, Eliza", "title": "Translating Blake\u2019s Jerusalem into Polish", "date": "2012", "keywords": "blake; english; fostowicz; fragments; jerusalem; milton; poetry; polish; reader; translator; william", "summary": "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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-101", "words": "12260", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Shiff, Abraham Samuel", "title": "Blake\u2019s Hebrew Calligraphy", "date": "2022", "keywords": "angel; blake; book; characters; english; god; hebrew; illus; image; job; left; letter; line; lord; new; right; satan; use; william; word", "summary": "The exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum of William Blake\u2019s World: \u201cA New Heaven Is Begun\u201d (Sept. 2009\u2013Jan. 2010) provided an opportunity to examine closely Blake\u2019s Hebrew calligraphy. 1. Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of William Blake (New York: Grolier Club, 1921), \u201cAppendix III: Letters Hitherto Uncollected, Letter 23,\u201d 451.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-102", "words": "1853", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Dennis M. Read, R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; cromek; engraving; read", "summary": "Going back more than thirty years, Dennis Read has published articles large and small about the activities of Blake\u2019s associate Robert Hartley Cromek (1770\u20131812); in the most important of these, \u201cThe Rival Canterbury Pilgrims of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet\u201d (Modern Philology, 1988), he showed that contrary to the account assembled by Gilchrist and echoed by most of Blake\u2019s subsequent biographers, who hold that Cromek stole the idea from Blake, Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-103", "words": "1914", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "Hazard Adams, William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: A Study of A Descriptive Catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adams; blake; jerusalem; poetry", "summary": "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 \u201ccontinues the study of William Blake\u2019s prose writings begun with Blake\u2019s Margins\u201d (1).\u00a0", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-104", "words": "1437", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "71", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "The Mathews as Patrons", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; flaxman; mathew; mrs", "summary": "The 1,200-some subscribers include \u201cMr. Mathew,\u201d \u201cMrs. Mathew,\u201d and \u201cMiss Mathew,\u201d 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), \u201cMrs. Mathew | Miss Mathew", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-105", "words": "1424", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Read, Dennis M.", "title": "Tom Dunne and William L. Pressly, eds., James Barry, 1741\u20131806: History Painter", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; barry; blake; society", "summary": "This growing interest began with the publication of William L. Pressly\u2019s The Life and Art of James Barry in 1981, followed by a major exhibition of Barry\u2019s work at the Tate in 1983 and John Barrell\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-106", "words": "1454", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Wittreich, Joseph", "title": "Karen Mulhallen, ed., Blake in Our Time", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bentley; blake; essays; studies; time", "summary": "Blake in Our Time is a magnificent tribute to G. E. Bentley, Jr.\u2014one of the titans in Blake studies of the last, as well as current, century\u2014whose work has \u201cshifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the \u2018Minute Particulars\u2019 of Blake\u2019s life and work,\u201d with Bentley thus launching what is here described as \u201cnow the most productive field of inquiry in Blake studies\u201d ([3]).\u00a0 \u201dG. E. Bentley, Jr., speaking of Blake, in The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001) xxvi.\u00a0", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-107", "words": "1027", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "The Blake Memorial Window", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; lawrence; window", "summary": "The Blake memorial window was commissioned by St. Mary\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-108", "words": "9631", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Eron, Sarah", "title": "\u201cBound ... by their narrowing perceptions\u201d: Sympathetic Bondage and Perverse Pity in Blake\u2019s The Book of Urizen", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; bondage; book; creation; division; image; los; new; perception; pity; self; sympathy; urizen; world", "summary": "\u201cReading Blake and Derrida\u2014Our Caesars neither Praised nor Buried.\u201d Critics have long acknowledged Blake\u2019s critique of pity in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience: \u201cPity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor\u201d (\u201cThe Human Abstract\u201d).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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-109", "words": "5983", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ullrich, David W.", "title": "Deciphering Blake\u2019s \u201cThe Angel that presided o\u2019er my birth\u201d", "date": "2022", "keywords": "angel; blake; creature; erdman; king; live; love; notebook; poem; thing; william", "summary": "In Slaughterhouse-Five the narrator states (by way of Kilgore Trout) that \u201cWilliam Blake\u201d was \u201c[Eliot] Rosewater\u2019s favorite poet\u201d (99), and in a 1977 interview in the Paris Review Vonnegut specifically notes, \u201cI was thirty-five before I went crazy about Blake.\u201dVonnegut His manifesto is identified in Vonnegut\u2019s text only as \u201ca poem by William Blake\u201d (65).Eliot\u2019s father offers a rebuttal to his son\u2019s manifesto by quoting \u201canother poem by Blake\u201d (65), stanza 3 of \u201cThe Clod & the Pebble.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-110", "words": "29652", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "80", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2012", "date": "2013", "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", "summary": "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\u2019 Medici reproduced in James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, rev. ed. Krown & Spellman, April online cat., \u201c1792\u201d (c. 1818) ed., scattered foxing, 3 vols.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-111", "words": "9865", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "\u0141uczy\u0144ska-Ho\u0142dys, Ma\u0142gorzata", "title": "\u201cLife exhal\u2019d in milky fondness\u201d\u2014Becoming a Mother in William Blake\u2019s The Book of Thel", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; book; child; clod; design; female; infant; lilly; mother; plate; text; thel; william; william blake; world", "summary": "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 \u201cboth the eagle man and the armed man adumbrate the \u2018fighting men in ambush\u2019 that haunt Thel in Plate 6\u201d (The Illuminated Blake 35). Erdman discerns this similarity and goes on to ask: \u201cAnd 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?\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-112", "words": "4167", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "Blake and Stedman as Costumiers: Curious Copies of Blake\u2019s Engravings in 1821", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; ferrario; illus; narrative; quacy; snake; stedman; surinam; toronto; university; vol", "summary": "Samuel \u00d6dmann (Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1800), 8\u00ba, taken from Sprengel, Stedman pl. 19; and 7. Viaggio al Surinam e The woman at the left is Stedman\u2019s wife/mistress, the fifteen-year-old Joanna, represented in Stedman pl. 8 (illus. 5), reversed, with new decorations in her hair.\u00a0", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-113", "words": "1850", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Whitehead, Angus", "title": "\u201canother, but far more amiable enthusiast\u201d: References to Catherine and William Blake in the Literary Gazette and La Belle Assembl\u00e9e (1830)", "date": "2013", "keywords": "belle; blake; catherine; cunningham; william", "summary": "He has published a number of papers on Blake, most recently \u201c\u2018an excellent saleswoman\u2019: The Last Years of Catherine Blake\u201d (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\u2019s 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\u2019s Lives, which makes several new references to William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-114", "words": "42118", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2012", "date": "2013", "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; \ufeffbb; \ufeffblake", "summary": "\u00a7William Blake: Milton, Za\u015blubniny Nieba \u00a7William Blake: Wiersze i poematy", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-115", "words": "2667", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Fosso, Kurt", "title": "Blake\u2019s \u201cIntroduction\u201d and Hesiod\u2019s Theogony", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; cambridge; hesiod; innocence; introduction; press; songs; theogony; university", "summary": "R. T. Davies and B. G. Beatty (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976) 19-35; W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake\u2019s Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978) 4-9; Zachary Leader, Reading Blake\u2019s \u201cSongs\u201d (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) 70; Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment: Blake\u2019s \u201cSongs\u201d and Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cLyrical Ballads\u201d (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 65-66; Stanley Gardner, Blake\u2019s \u201cInnocence\u201d and \u201cExperience\u201d 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\u2019s Night: William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1973) 13-14, 69, and Joseph Wicksteed, Blake\u2019s Innocence and Experience: A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928) 81.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-116", "words": "1339", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Freedman, Linda", "title": "Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bible; blake; rowland", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-117", "words": "1531", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Serdechnaya, Vera", "title": "William Blake and British Visionary Art, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; exhibition; museum; works", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-118", "words": "864", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Serdechnaya, Vera", "title": "\u0423\u0438\u043b\u044c\u044f\u043c \u0411\u043b\u0435\u0439\u043a, \u041f\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0438 \u043d\u0435\u0432\u0438\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0438 \u043e\u043f\u044b\u0442\u0430: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; russian; translations", "summary": "Kruzhkov\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-119", "words": "1961", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Mertz, J. B.", "title": "William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, ed. Michael Phillips", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; edition; marriage; phillips; plate", "summary": "Readers familiar with the controversy concerning Blake\u2019s 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, \u201cAn Inquiry into William Blake\u2019s Method of Color Printing,\u201d Blake 35.3 (winter 2001-02): 74-103; Michael Phillips, \u201cColor-Printing Songs of Experience and Blake\u2019s Method of Registration: A Correction,\u201d Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 44-45; Martin Butlin, \u201c\u2018Is This a Private War or Can Anyone Join In?\u2019: A Plea for a Broader Look at Blake\u2019s Color-Printing Techniques,\u201d Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 45-49; Essick and Viscomi, \u201cBlake\u2019s Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further Observations,\u201d Blake 36.2 (fall 2002): 49-64; Butlin, \u201cWilliam Blake, S. W. Hayter and Color Printing,\u201d Blake (2002) Phillips devotes considerable space in his introduction to developing the argument that The Marriage \u201cmade its first public appearance in 1793 rather than 1790\u201d (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, \u201cThe Evolution of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,\u201d Huntington Library Quarterly 58 (1997): 284-85; Viscomi, \u201cThe Lessons of Swedenborg; or, The Origin of William Blake\u2019s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,\u201d Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-120", "words": "1008", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Butlin, Martin", "title": "Harpers and Other Drawings: The Case for a Unified Composition", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; figures", "summary": "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\u2019s catalogue. However, the only other known pair of figures playing harps is Har and Heva in the lost fifth illustration to Tiriel.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-121", "words": "1608", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ferreira, Michelle", "title": "William Blake (1757\u20131827): Visiones en el arte brit\u00e1nico, CaixaForum Madrid", "date": "2013", "keywords": "artist; blake; exhibition; madrid; works", "summary": "Works exemplifying the variety of materials used by Blake, such as canvas atop cardboard, iron, or pine\u2014the latter used for Winter (c. 1820-25), which is nearly completely white\u2014were displayed alongside the spiritual portraits of contemporaries William Pitt and Lord Nelson. A collaboration between Spain\u2019s La Caixa Foundation\u2014also the organizers of the nation\u2019s first showing of Blake in 1996\u2014and Tate Britain, the exhibition presented Blake as a leading icon of British art, a rebel artist who inspired subsequent generations of artists.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-122", "words": "11367", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Freedman, Linda", "title": "Blake, Duncan, and the Politics of Writing from Myth", "date": "2013", "keywords": "america; blake; duncan; form; myth; oothoon; poem; poetic; poetry; self; sense; touch; truth; vision; way; whitman; world", "summary": "The particular implications of the reference to Blake, itself the starting point for Duncan\u2019s \u201cVariations on Two Dicta of William Blake,\u201d will be discussed in more detail later in this section. Who Present, Past, & Future Sees\u2014Three Cores of Bardic Attention: The Early Bards, William Blake and Robert Duncan (Hay-on-Wye: West House Books, 1995); Edward Larrissy, \u201cTwo American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg,\u201d Blake and Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) 108-24; and Jerome McGann, \u201cArt and Error: With Special Reference to the Poetry of Robert Duncan,\u201d Modern Language Studies 27.2 (spring 1997): 9-22.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-123", "words": "2506", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mertz, J. B.", "title": "The Responses of William Blake and Joseph Priestley to Two Swedenborgian Ideas", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; church; marriage; new; priestley; swedenborg", "summary": "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\u2019s Letters were not published until the second half of 1791, delayed several weeks by the mob\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201crationalism is often presented as making [him] irrelevant to Blake studies,\u201dJon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) 6.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-124", "words": "2386", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "Susanne M. Sklar, Blake\u2019s Jerusalem as Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blake; chapter; jerusalem; poem; sklar; theatre", "summary": "Review: Susanne M. Sklar, Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s depiction that includes Jacob Boehme\u2019s Sophia and the evangelist Southcott.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-125", "words": "17960", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Roberts, Jonathan", "title": "William Blake\u2019s Visionary Landscape near Felpham", "date": "2013", "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", "summary": "This indicates that the sketch was not made during Blake\u2019s initial visit to Felpham in July 1800,He was in Felpham for most of July 1800: \u201cOn 5 July 1800, Flaxman sent with Blake a letter and gifts to Hayley, and on 16 July Hayley wrote to Flaxman that \u2018our good enthusiastic Friend Blake will \u2026 extend the time of his Residence in the south a little longer than we at first proposed\u2019\u201d 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\u2019s religion,Blake is at the heart of the ferment of interest in London\u2019s dissenting subcultures catalyzed by Jon Mee\u2019s Dangerous Enthusiasm (1992) and discussed in a range of subsequent works, including E. P. Thompson\u2019s Witness against the Beast (1993), Robert Rix\u2019s William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (2007), Magnus Ankarsj\u00f6\u2019s William Blake and Religion (2009), and a host of essay collections and journal articles.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-126", "words": "1511", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "Lussier, Mark", "title": "Claire Colebrook, Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aesthetics; blake; colebrook; work", "summary": "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, \u201cTwo 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\u201d (136).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-127", "words": "951", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Graver, Bruce", "title": "Jonathan Roberts, Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.", "date": "2014", "keywords": "roberts; wordsworth", "summary": "Rather, he focuses on Blake\u2019s verse letter to Thomas Butts, \u201cTo my Friend Butts I write,\u201d and on the Solitary\u2019s vision of the heavenly Jerusalem in book 2 of Wordsworth\u2019s The Excursion, and uses them to demonstrate how poetry offers \u201ca different type of engagement with religion: one that can enrich rather than narrow understanding, include rather than exclude, and creatively interrelate\u2014rather than destructively set at odds\u2014different approaches to religion\u201d (1). Review: Jonathan Roberts, Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-128", "words": "2199", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "New Night Thoughts Sightings", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; catalogue; london; night; thoughts; young", "summary": "My friend Mr. D\u2019Israeli 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\u2019s Night Thoughts, which was augmented by G. E. Bentley, Jr.,Wayne C. Ripley, \u201cPrinted References to and Known Prices of Blake\u2019s Night Thoughts, 1796\u20131826,\u201d Blake 43.2 (fall 2009):\u00a072-75;\u00a0G. E. Bentley, Jr., \u201cSales and collection records, 1798\u20131840,\u201d in \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2010,\u201d Blake 45.1 (summer 2011):\u00a018-19. should be added eight new listings.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-129", "words": "6271", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "\u201cAh! Romney!\u201d: Blake\u2019s \u201cSupernaculum\u201d Portrait Engraving of George Romney", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; engraving; essick; george; hayley; life; portrait; print; romney; watson", "summary": "Blake 1757\u20131827: 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\u2019s decision to choose Watson\u2019s frontispiece over Blake\u2019s, see also Paley, \u201cWilliam Blake, George Romney, and The Life of George Romney, Esq.\u201d 58-59.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-130", "words": "8857", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Shiff, Abraham Samuel", "title": "Blake\u2019s Priestly Blessing: God Blesses Job", "date": "2014", "keywords": "arms; blake; blessing; book; fingers; god; hands; hebrew; illus; illustrations; job; library; london; new; plate; priest; ritual; william; york", "summary": "\u201cWilliam Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians.\u201d 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]).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-131", "words": "3165", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Scott, Grant F.", "title": "Steve Clark, Tristanne Connolly, and Jason Whittaker, eds., Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture", "date": "2014", "keywords": "archive; art; author; blake; copyright; digital; editors; web", "summary": "Whitson\u2019s essay contrasts the online Blake Archive with the new internet realm of what he calls \u201cDigital Blake 2.0.\u201d As Dent rightly notes, \u201cthe question of authenticity becomes one of editorial authority\u201d (57), and that\u2019s why the Blake Archive again plays a crucial role in exploring these questions.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-132", "words": "24469", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2013", "date": "2014", "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", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-133", "words": "1401", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Miner, Paul", "title": "Francis Quarles\u2019s Influence on Europe 11", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; emblem; europe; quarles; sense", "summary": "All citations of Blake are from The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. Francis Quarles\u2019s Influence on Europe 11 Francis Quarles\u2019s Influence on Europe 11 By Paul Miner Paul Miner (paulminer@cableone.net) has written more than fifty studies on Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-134", "words": "2299", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Connolly, Tristanne", "title": "Sibylle Erle, Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; erle; lavater; physiognomy; urizen", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-135", "words": "4558", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Johnson, Mary Lynn", "title": "Newfound Particulars of Blake\u2019s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767\u20131806", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; butts; elizabeth; hesse; income; johnson; june; london; mary; school; street; thomas; year", "summary": "Newfound Particulars of Blake\u2019s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767\u20131806 Newfound Particulars of Blake\u2019s Patrons, Thomas and Elizabeth Butts, 1767\u20131806 By Mary Lynn Johnson Mary Lynn Johnson (mary-grant@uiowa.edu), a retired special assistant in the University of Iowa president\u2019s office, has written several essays on Blake\u2019s biblical watercolors for Thomas Butts. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), and in annual addenda to Blake Records, were expanded by Joseph Viscomi, \u201cWilliam Blake\u2019s \u2018The Phoenix / to Mrs Butts\u2019 Redux,\u201d Blake 29.1 (summer 1995): 12-15, \u201cBlake in the Marketplace 1852: Thomas Butts, Jr. and Other Unknown Nineteenth-Century Blake Collectors,\u201d Blake 29.2 (fall 1995): 40-68, and \u201cA \u2018Green House\u2019 for Butts?", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-136", "words": "22669", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "75", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2013", "date": "2014", "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", "summary": "\u00a7William 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\u2019 notes: The invaluable Bentley checklist has grown to the point where we are unable to publish it in its entirety.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-137", "words": "17978", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs", "date": "2014", "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", "summary": "\ufeff#547 4*\ufeff> \u201cThe 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\u2013Queen\u2019s University Press, 2014) and added 550 pages to the online \u201cSale Catalogues of Blake\u2019s Works, 1791-2014.\u201d Editors\u2019 note: Wherever possible we have included a link to the design.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-138", "words": "2671", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Rosso, G. A.", "title": "Steven Goldsmith, Blake\u2019s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions", "date": "2014", "keywords": "agency; blake; book; emotion; goldsmith; reading", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-139", "words": "9447", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Borkowska, Eliza", "title": "\u201cDid he who made the Lamb make the... Tyger\u201d?", "date": "2014", "keywords": "answer; blake; child; experience; innocence; lamb; poem; question; songs; speaker; stanza; tyger; william", "summary": "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\u2019s Discourses on God), and co-translating Blake\u2019s Jerusalem into Polish. \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle,\u201d published annually in Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-140", "words": "2007", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Susan Matthews, Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness", "date": "2014", "keywords": "blake; bourgeois; female; matthews; sexuality", "summary": "Matthews\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-141", "words": "147", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Bentley, G. E.", "title": "Inscriptions by Blake for His Designs", "date": "2014", "keywords": "inscriptions", "summary": "First Blair prospectus (1805) (drawing in the collection of Alan Parker) \u201cDeath pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life\u201d First Blair prospectus (1805) (drawing in the collection of Robert N. Essick) \u201cFriendship\u201dSome titles of the watercolors sold in 2006 that were not engraved appear to bear no authority from Blake: \u201cThe Grave Personified\u201d (Price), \u201cWhile Surfeited upon thy Damask Cheek\u201d (Anon.), \u201cA Father and two children Beside an Open Grave\u201d (Anon.), \u201cHeaven\u2019s Portals Wide Expand to Let Him In\u201d (Essick), and \u201cOur Time Is Fixed\u201d (Anon.).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-142", "words": "4528", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "73", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds., Genesis: William Blake\u2019s Last Illuminated Work", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adam; blake; genesis; god; life; linnell; man; title; william", "summary": "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\u2019s Last Illuminated Work Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-143", "words": "9305", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Moyer, James F.", "title": "\u201cThe Daughters Weave their Work in loud cries\u201d: Blake, Slavery, and Cotton", "date": "2015", "keywords": "african; albion; blake; children; cotton; daughters; england; factory; industrial; industry; jerusalem; labor; new; slavery; slaves; textile; visions; women; work; workers", "summary": "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 \u201cswim the deep\u201d while humans become lifeless; the ocean and its \u201cdeep\u201d in Blake allude at times to the slave trade.\u00a0", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-144", "words": "1793", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Lindberg, Ossian", "title": "Carl-Johan Malmberg, Stj\u00e4rnan i foten. Dikt och bild, bok och tanke hos William Blake", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; book; lionardo; malmberg; swedish", "summary": "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\u2019s composite art, his unique illuminated printing from copperplates on which text, image, and decoration stand up in relief and can be printed like woodcuts.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-145", "words": "2319", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "Poems of Thomas Gray with Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake (Folio Society, 2013)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; folio; gray; trust; william", "summary": "In 2014 G. E. Bentley, Jr., (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) published William Blake in the Desolate Market (McGill\u2013Queen\u2019s University Press) and essays in Blake and Notes and Queries. This statement, or one very like it, appears in the annual checklists of \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d in Blake (1994 ff.).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-146", "words": "3214", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Burning Bright: William Blake and the Art of the Book, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, February\u2013June 2013", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; book; display; john; label; library; rylands; william", "summary": "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.\u2019s Blake Books (1977) and Blake Books Supplement (1995) or Robert N. Essick\u2019s William Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s annual checklists in Blake and the online compilation of those lists, \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle.\u201d It was curated by the archives and visual materials manager, Stella Halkyard, and grew out of Colin Trodd\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-147", "words": "1611", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Tate Britain\u2019s New Blake Room", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; britain; gallery; tate", "summary": "1939 Nine of Blake\u2019s large color prints are presented to the Tate by Robertson. 1947\u00a0August\u2013September William Blake (1757\u20131827)\u00a0is held at the Tate. 2003\u201304 William Blake: The Painter at Work, a display and accompanying book, present technical research into Blake\u2019s painting techniques.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-148", "words": "21585", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "77", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2014", "date": "2015", "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", "summary": "The presence of engravings by Blake in Stedman\u2019s book was first recorded by William Michael Rossetti in his list of \u201cWorks Engraved but Not Designed by Blake\u201d in Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (London: Macmillan, 1863) 2: 260. Sotheran\u2019s, the venerable London book dealer, issued a \u201cWilliam Blake\u201d catalogue in October that includes Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-149", "words": "7567", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Miner, Paul", "title": "\u201cBad\u201d Queens, \u201cGood\u201d Queens, and George III (as His Satanic Majesty)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "america; angel; blake; death; england; france; george; iii; jerusalem; king; london; milton; orc; paradise; queen; revolution; satan", "summary": "William Blake All citations of Blake are from The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley, \u201c\u2018Dear Generous Cumberland\u2019: A Newly Discovered Letter and Poem by William Blake,\u201d Blake 32.1 (summer 1998): 4-13.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-150", "words": "1490", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Mertz, J. B.", "title": "Karl Kroeber, Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; book; era; kroeber", "summary": "David Wagenknecht, Blake\u2019s 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.,\u00a0The 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 \u201ccanonical\u201d poets in terms of his impact on modern popular culture,See, as a recent example, \u201cPart III: Blake in Film and Graphic Arts,\u201d Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-151", "words": "5392", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wittreich, Joseph", "title": "Rediscovering William Hayley: A Review Article: Paul Foster, ed., with Diana Barsham, William Hayley (1745\u20131820) Poet, Biographer, and Libertarian: A Reassessment and William Hayley (1745\u20131820): Selected Poetry", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; epic; essays; hayley; leonard; life; milton; newton; paradise; poems; poetry", "summary": "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 \u201cthe odious dinn of Warr\u201d (6.408): \u201cHeav\u2019n the seat of bliss / Brooks not the works of violence and Warr\u201d (6.273-74).Quotations of Milton\u2019s poetry are from The Complete Poetry of John Milton, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-152", "words": "2499", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "39", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; darwin; erasmus; life; loves; plants; priestman", "summary": "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\u2019s book represents a major advance in elucidating Darwin\u2019s 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\u2019s epic poem on the sex lives of flowers based on the sexual classification system of Linnaeus, and read one or another of King-Hele\u2019s books or the more focused studies of Darwin\u2019s 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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-153", "words": "24124", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "74", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2014", "date": "2015", "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; \ufeffbb; \ufeffblake", "summary": "Review (of vol. 1) *Adriana D\u00edaz Enciso, \u201cEl m\u00e9todo de profec\u00eda de William Blake,\u201d Milenio [Mexico City] 7 Dec. 2013 (in Spanish), reprinted as \u201cWilliam Blake\u2019s Method of Prophecy\u201d on the Blake Society web site (a \u201cvast and outstanding \u2026 feat\u201d; \u201cAll the illustrations are neatly and faithfully reproduced\u201d; \u201cThis edition of William Blake\u2019s Prophetic Books in Spanish is one of the most important publishing events in that language for decades.\u201d) Reviews (of vol. 2) *Maica Rivera, \u201cC\u00f3mo ser William Blake,\u201d Leer no. 249 (Feb. 2014): 76-77 (in Spanish). *Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake in the Desolate Market.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-154", "words": "2126", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Newman, Steve", "title": "Martha Redbone Roots Project, The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; garden; love; redbone; songs; voice", "summary": "This is living music, transporting the incisive ethical and political critique at the heart of Blake\u2019s imaginative vision to an Appalachian landscape \u201cradically altered by strip-mining\u201d; Redbone, of Native American and African-American ancestry, finds in Blake a congenial voice for her own thoughts about \u201cmy ancestral home Black Mountain, Kentucky, coal country and pre-contact Shawnee/Cherokee land.\u201d Redbone and her team are not the first to adapt Blake to a folk or roots idiom; for one example, Greg Brown\u2019s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1986) will be known to some (reviewed in Blake 23.2", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-155", "words": "1273", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Knowles, Claire", "title": "William Blake, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, 4 April\u201331 August 2014", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; gallery; national", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-156", "words": "1749", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "Roderick Tweedy, The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor, and the Myth of Creation", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; book; brain; left; tweedy", "summary": "Chapter 8, a seventy-three-page section titled \u201cTwilight of the Psychopaths,\u201d first identifies Urizenic reasoning with \u201cclinical insanity\u201d (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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-157", "words": "14628", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Sung, Mei-Ying", "title": "New Information about William Blake\u2019s Pre-Publication Proofs of His Job Engravings", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; border design; central; essick; job; lines; linnell; new; plate; proof; rosenbloom; rosenbloom proof; rosenbloom state; state", "summary": "Published state: Adding some more lines to the whirlwind in the upper border, e.g., the top left corner, left of the inscription \u201cWho is this \u2026.\u201d 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\u2019s state 4, which has the border design added. State 5 [Essick\u2019s 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\u2019s mandorla and the child angels in this area, but leaving the cloud lines above the upper frame of the central design.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-158", "words": "3257", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "73", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Lord Tennyson\u2019s Copy of Blake\u2019s Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; book; copy; illustrations; job; jowett; press; tennyson; william", "summary": "We now know not only that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, owned a copy of William Blake\u2019s 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. \u201cIllustrations of the Book of Job Blake\u201d is written in gold lettering on the spine.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-159", "words": "2178", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "71", "author": "Essick, Robert N.; La Belle, Jenijoy", "title": "The Blakes at Their Press", "date": "2015", "keywords": "blake; dante; left; press; right; william", "summary": "Other illuminated books of the 1790s and Jerusalem name Blake as only their printer. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-160", "words": "14868", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Fletcher, Joseph", "title": "Ocean Growing: Blake\u2019s Two Versions of Newton and the Emerging Polypus", "date": "2015", "keywords": "1804\u201305; animal; blake; buffon; century; darwin; ecco; form; history; london; matter; nature; newton; philosophy; polyp; polypus; press; print; sea; trembley; university; william; william blake", "summary": "Reproductions of the work in the two book-length studies of Blake and Newton, Donald Ault\u2019s Visionary Physics and Stuart Peterfreund\u2019s 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\u2019s The School of Athens (\u201cSymbolism of the Compasses\u201d 61n6, Art of William Blake 35).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-161", "words": "3829", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Colin Trodd, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830\u20131930", "date": "2016", "keywords": "art; blake; blakeans; century; chapter; gilchrist; life; trodd; william; world", "summary": "In Visions of Blake Trodd discusses Alexander Gilchrist\u2019s Life of Blake (1863), A. C. Swinburne\u2019s 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\u2019s nineteenth-century editors, curators, and collectors. Colin Trodd, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830\u20131930 Colin Trodd.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-162", "words": "2856", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Whitehead, Angus", "title": "\u201ca bite\u201d: The First Published Reference to Blake\u2019s Ghost of a Flea?", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; flea; gazette; ghost; heath; london; varley; william; wright", "summary": "Martin Butlin has proposed that copies of the visionary heads may have been made using Cornelius Varley\u2019s patented graphic telescope,See Martin Butlin, \u201cBlake, the Varleys, and the Patent Graphic Telescope,\u201d William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed. Colburn published major works such as Samuel Pepys\u2019s diary and (with Richard Bentley) an edition of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein, as well as works by \u201csilver fork\u201d novelists Lady Caroline Lamb and Lady Charlotte Bury, both of whom Blake met (see Peter Garside, \u201cColburn, Henry [1784/5\u20131855],\u201d ODNB; G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-163", "words": "4881", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "W. S. Blake: New Facts and Engravings", "date": "2016", "keywords": "alley; blake; change; engraver; john; london; new; rowe; s. blake; w. s.; william", "summary": "Joshua Gilpin, William Blake, and the Arts in 1796,\u201d Notes and Queries 231 [ns 33.1] [1986]: 80-84) until the discovery of a letter to Gilpin of 13 April 1796 referring to \u201cBlake Engraver & Printer of Exchange Alley, Cornhill\u201d made it clear that the engraver was W. S. Blake (Bentley, \u201cThe Way of a Papermaker with a Poet \u2026 Postscript,\u201d Notes and Queries 231 There are also Bentley, \u201cA Collection of Prosaic William Blakes,\u201d Notes and Queries 210 (ns 12.5) (1965): 172-78; Bentley, \u201cTrade Cards and the Blake Connection,\u201d Book Collector 37 (1988): 127-33; Geoffrey Keynes, \u201cEngravers Called Blake,\u201d Times Literary Supplement 17 Jan. 1942: 36, revised in his Blake Studies (1949) 50-55 and (1971) 46-49; Keynes, \u201c\u2018To the Nightingale\u2019: Perhaps an Unrecognized Poem by William Blake,\u201d Book Collector 30 (1981): 335-45; Keynes and Peter Davidson, eds., A Watch of Nightingales (London: Stourton Press, 1981); Ruthven Todd, \u201cThe Two Blakes,\u201d Times Literary Supplement 10 Feb. 1945: 72; Janet Warner, \u201cTrade Cards of W. S. Blake,\u201d Book Collector 32 (1983): 105-07 (two of them reproduced); and Raymond Watkinson, \u201c\u2018White on Black,\u2019\u201d Times Literary Supplement 13 Sept. 1974: 980.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-164", "words": "849", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "Elizabeth B. Bentley, ed., George Cumberland, The Emigrants or A Trip to the Ohio, a Theatrical Farce (1817)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "acres; cumberland; play", "summary": "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\u2019s punctuation.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-165", "words": "2113", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "William L. Pressly, James Barry\u2019s Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art", "date": "2016", "keywords": "art; barry; blake; book; pressly", "summary": "With this huge, lavishly illustrated volume, Pressly crowns a stack of books and essays on Barry and his contemporaries,Pressly\u2019s books on Barry are James Barry, 1741\u20131806: History Painter (with Tom Dunne, 2010), James Barry: The Artist as Hero (1983), and The Life and Art of James Barry (1981). Pressly\u2019s analysis of each picture builds upon an extended exegetical selection from Barry\u2019s 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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-166", "words": "21214", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2015", "date": "2016", "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", "summary": "Librairie Jean-\u00c9tienne Huret, Nov. online cat., \u201c1792\u201d (c. 1818) ed., \u201c5 vol. A. Burnett, ed., The Medical Adviser and Guide to Health and Long Life, 1823\u201324.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-167", "words": "3129", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Rix, Robert W.", "title": "All Religions are One: A Note on Sources", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; divine; genius; man; religions; spirit; swedenborg", "summary": "In seven \u201cprinciples,\u201d Blake sets out to prove that a spiritual dimension of man, which he names the \u201cPoetic Genius,\u201d exists, and that this has been the origin of all religions. Blake\u2019s key term \u201cPoetic Genius\u201d is also directly linked to a Swedenborgian context, insofar as it appears twice in Blake\u2019s annotations to the English translation of Swedenborg\u2019s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-168", "words": "3101", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "83", "author": "Kumari, Ashanka", "title": "Adding to Blake Set to Music", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; duration; experience; songs; sources; voice", "summary": "Source: International Music Score Library Project. GILLETT, JeffUK William Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-169", "words": "1685", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Trettien, Whitney Anne", "title": "Roger Whitson and Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; whitson; whittaker; work", "summary": "Taking this question seriously demands, in Whitson and Whittaker\u2019s estimation, \u201ca truly social and digital media approach to Blake studies\u2014one 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\u201d (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 \u201cvirtuality,\u201d following Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Levi Bryant: the \u201ccondition under which different Blakes are produced and reproduced\u201d (28).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-170", "words": "856", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Butlin, Martin", "title": "The History of William Blake\u2019s Job Prints", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; proofs", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-171", "words": "18343", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "75", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015", "date": "2016", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "*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 \u803f\u529b\u5e73 for Chinese Publications, and of Fernando Castanedo for Spanish Publications G. E. Bentley, Jr.\u2019s Thomas Macklin (1752\u20131800) Picture-Publisher and Patron is in the press.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-172", "words": "1163", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Millar, Stephen R.", "title": "Kate Horgan, The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723\u20131795", "date": "2016", "keywords": "century; horgan; politics; songs", "summary": "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 \u201cconstitutive of the poetry of the Romantic era\u201d (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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-173", "words": "3125", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "Andrew M. Cooper, William Blake and the Productions of Time", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; book; chapter; cooper; milton; urizen; vortex", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-174", "words": "1851", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mazzeo, Tilar J.", "title": "Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly, eds., Queer Blake", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; chapter; collection; queer; work", "summary": "Steve Clark and David Worrall (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999) 212-30, and \u201cRebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books,\u201d 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\u2014where the writers explore both the center and the circumference of Blake\u2019s representations of disparate sexualities.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-175", "words": "2366", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Matthews, Susan", "title": "William Blake: Apprentice and Master, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 4 December 2014\u20131 March 2015; Michael Phillips, William Blake: Apprentice and Master", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; catalogue; exhibition; master; phillips; work", "summary": "Emphasizing success rather than failure, Phillips presents Blake as \u201cMaster of His Trade\u201d\u2014at the least from 1785 to 1791, his achievement evidenced by Boydell\u2019s 1787 commission for engraving Hogarth\u2019s painting of The Beggar\u2019s Opera. But in 2014\u201315, William Blake: Apprentice and Master presented an artisan who labored to master difficult processes\u2014bearing no small resemblance to the curator, whose life work it has been to understand and to master the techniques used by Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-176", "words": "492", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Shiff, Abraham Samuel", "title": "Blake\u2019s Priestly Blessing: God Blesses Job\u2014Postscript", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; blessing", "summary": "G. E. Bentley, Jr.\u2019s reportG. E. Bentley, Jr., et al., \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2015,\u201d Blake 50.1 (summer 2016): par. 9, \u201cPreviously Unknown Copy of a Book Owned by Blake.\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-177", "words": "1886", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Essick, Robert N.; La Belle, Jenijoy", "title": "A Sketch by Robert Blake Revealed", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; left; right; robert", "summary": "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?)", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-178", "words": "1446", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake of the Woolpack & Peacock", "date": "2016", "keywords": "banks; bill; blake; shop; yards", "summary": "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\u201384 (\u00a38.3.19).Bentley, Blake Records, 2nd ed. The shop title may be seen in the elegant engraved bill-head made out by James Blake, the poet\u2019s father, to the prodigious botanist Joseph Banks.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-179", "words": "1417", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "G. E. Bentley, Jr., William Blake in the Desolate Market", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bentley; blake; market; william", "summary": "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 \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle,\u201d published annually in Blake. While such a view is restated at the beginning of William Blake in the Desolate Market with Bentley\u2019s claim that Blake was \u201cmost comfortable living in his imagination\u201d rather than in \u201cthe world of pence and penury\u201d (3), the information that Bentley has marshaled, particularly the amount of money earned over the first twenty-five years or so of Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-180", "words": "1761", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Michael, Jennifer Davis", "title": "Jennifer G. Jesse, William Blake\u2019s Religious Vision: There\u2019s a Methodism in His Madness", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; book; jesse; reason; urizen", "summary": "Review: Jesse, William Blake\u2019s Religious Vision: There\u2019s a Methodism in His Madness Jennifer G. Jesse. William Blake and Religion: A New Critical View.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-181", "words": "12037", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Spector, Sheila A.", "title": "Frye\u2019s Mistreatment of the Archetype", "date": "2016", "keywords": "adam; blake; bromion; criticism; frye; kabbalistic; literature; man; mysticism; myth; new; northrop; northrop frye; symmetry; william; william blake; world", "summary": "Both occur within the context of a seven-thousand-year cycle, as Blake says in Night the First of The Four Zoas: \u201cThen Eno, a daughter of Beulah, took a Moment of Time / And drew it out to [twenty years del.] seven thousand years\u201d (Night the First, ll. 222-23, K 270; p. 9.9-10, E 304).Frye\u2019s Blake was edited by Geoffrey Keynes\u2014likely 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\u2019s response to Blake would have been different had he not been introduced to the poet by an edition that regularizes Blake\u2019s eccentric spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-182", "words": "2176", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lincoln, Andrew", "title": "Michael Farrell, Blake and the Methodists", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; comparison; differences; farrell; hymns; wesley", "summary": "Against Thompson, Farrell points out that Blake \u201cundeniably held sympathies towards\u201d Methodism, as shown by the positive allusions to Whitefield and Wesley in Milton and Jerusalem (8). Farrell\u2019s detailed comparison of Blake and Wesley includes a chapter on hymnody, which builds on and extends the work of other scholars.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-183", "words": "1490", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Read, Dennis M.", "title": "Tobias Churton, Jerusalem! The Real Life of William Blake", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; churton; life; ralph", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-184", "words": "1714", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Flores, Cristina", "title": "Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Una isla en la luna", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; castanedo; island; spanish; william", "summary": "William Blake: An Island in the Moon. Primeros libros prof\u00e9ticos (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: First Prophetic Books), the first volume in Spanish entirely devoted to Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-185", "words": "2973", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "40", "author": "Rosso, G. A.", "title": "Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly, eds., Sexy Blake", "date": "2016", "keywords": "blake; chastity; essays; gender; sexuality; volume; zoas", "summary": "Whitehead and Gwynne build on the recent upsurge of biographical and fictional interest in Catherine Blake, showing that she was a \u201clifelong, proactive partner and collaborator\u201d in Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s Prophetic Symbolism (2016), a study of Blake\u2019s three long poems, The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-186", "words": "2790", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sherman, Mark A.", "title": "Eric Pyle, William Blake\u2019s Illustrations for Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; comedy; dante; divine; illustrations; paradiso; pyle", "summary": "Pyle, for his part, advocates a complex, nuanced relationship toward the work in which Blake undertook the more congenial enterprise of \u201ccorrecting\u201d 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 \u201ca partnership\u201d (14), \u201ca 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\u201d (267-68).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-187", "words": "17313", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "George Romney and Ozias Humphry as Collectors of William Blake\u2019s Illuminated Printing", "date": "2017", "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", "summary": "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\u2019s University Press, 2014] 49-50). See my \u201cWilliam Blake, Jacob Ilive, and the Book of Jasher,\u201d Blake 30.2 (fall 1996): 51-54.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-188", "words": "1397", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Schuchard, Marsha Keith", "title": "Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; peucker; sifting; time", "summary": "Though, as mentioned, Peucker\u2019s 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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-189", "words": "1746", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Reader\u2019s Guide to Essential Criticism", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; book; criticism; songs", "summary": "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\u2019t 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-190", "words": "23419", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "77", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2016", "date": "2017", "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", "summary": "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 \u201cProof\u201d inscription, all illus.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-191", "words": "1711", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "Colored Copies of Blair\u2019s Grave (1808, 1813): A Census", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blair; blake; coloring; copy; grave", "summary": "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 \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d in Blake (1994\u2013), 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 \u2026 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 \u201cprobably done by Mrs. Blake\u201d; (2) Offered at Parke-Bernet Galleries, catalogue of Mrs. David Gage Joyce of Chicago, \u201cA Maryland Lady,\u201d a midwestern collector, and others, 23-24 November 1943 (New York, 1943), first day, property of \u201cA Maryland Lady,\u201dThe Maryland lady was Christine Alexander Graham, whose bookplate appears in Songs of Innocence (A) (lot 48).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-192", "words": "5583", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Roger L\u00fcdeke, Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake: \u00c4sthetische Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t und politische Imagination", "date": "2017", "keywords": "america; blake; book; der; die; europe; image; imagination; l\u00fcdeke; political; printing; religious; social; und; urizen; von; writing", "summary": "In the second part of his introduction L\u00fcdeke 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\u20131900: Texts and Contexts (5 vols., Pickering & Chatto, 2012).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-193", "words": "1974", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Edwardses of Halifax: The Making and Selling of Beautiful Books in London and Halifax, 1749\u20131826", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bentley; books; halifax; james; richard", "summary": "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 \u201calmost all Richard Edwards\u2019s publications advertise their Church and King fervour, many of them using history to support the status quo\u201d (162).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-194", "words": "20914", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016", "date": "2017", "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", "summary": "*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 \u803f\u529b\u5e73 for Chinese Publications, and of Fernando Castanedo for Spanish Publications G. E. Bentley, Jr. (gbentley@chass.utoronto.ca) published Thomas Macklin (1752\u20131800), Picture-Publisher and Patron, Creator of the Macklin Bible (Mellen Press, 2016), with a section on Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-195", "words": "3874", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Lincoln, Andrew", "title": "Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; book; makdisi; reading; text; work", "summary": "There is an obvious element of anachronism here, because such comparisons would not have been possible for those in Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-196", "words": "1760", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Butlin, Martin", "title": "Blake\u2019s Unfinished Series of Illustrations to Paradise Lost for John Linnell: An Addition", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adam; blake; eve; linnell; series", "summary": "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\u2019s Life of William Blake, \u201cPictor Ignotus,\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-197", "words": "2163", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "Two Newly Discovered Advertisements Posted by William Blake\u2019s Father", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; catherine; family; james; street; william", "summary": "This Mr. Blake was assuredly the father of William Blake, James Blake, Sr. (1722\u201384), whose hosiery and haberdashery shop was located at 28 Broad Street. See also G. E. Bentley, Jr., \u201cWilliam Blake of the Woolpack & Peacock,\u201d Blake 50.2 (fall 2016).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-198", "words": "54190", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Myrone, Martin", "title": "William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective", "date": "2017", "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", "summary": "Appendix 1 Geographical origins of RA students, 1774\u201385 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\u201385 Classification is based on the occupation of the father, or other parental figure where the father died young.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-199", "words": "2243", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Mulhallen, Karen", "title": "Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr., 23 August 1930\u201331 August 2017", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beth; blake; book; geb; jerry", "summary": "For half a century I have been wrestling with the spirit of William Blake, with the protean shapes of Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-200", "words": "600", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Bindman, David", "title": "Adam and Eve Asleep: A Dissent", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adam; blake", "summary": "He is, as everyone knows, a great Blake scholar who has sorted out Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-201", "words": "1560", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "A Copy of Blake\u2019s Adam and Eve Asleep", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adam; blake; eve", "summary": "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\u2019s Paradise Lost designs commissioned by Thomas Butts in 1808.Butlin, \u201cBlake\u2019s 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)", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-202", "words": "1635", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Viscomi, Joseph", "title": "A Newly Discovered Copy of Blake\u2019s Adam and Eve Asleep", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; courtesy; eve", "summary": "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\u2019t practiced in over a decade. Left: Adam and Eve Asleep, detail of angels\u2019 heads.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-203", "words": "2784", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Butlin, Martin", "title": "The \u201cLinnell\u201d Adam and Eve Asleep: The Case for the Defense", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; butlin; collection; detail; eve", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-204", "words": "2472", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "Leo Damrosch, Eternity\u2019s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake", "date": "2017", "keywords": "blake; book; chapter; damrosch; reader; work", "summary": "Damrosch\u2019s style leads the relatively uninitiated reader gently through Blake\u2019s sometimes baffling world, but those working in Blake studies might wish for something more challenging. Damrosch also \u201ccorrects\u201d Blake\u2019s spelling and punctuation, a decision that some might argue removes a key component of the strangeness that makes Blake Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-206", "words": "281", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Changes to the Masthead", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "His first note, \u201cBlake Apocrypha,\u201d appeared in the October 1967 issue; his final article, \u201cRosenbach and Blake,\u201d leads this issue. In her role as exhibitions editor, Luisa will also coordinate exhibition reviews, beginning in the new year with William Blake in Sussex at Petworth House; Sandy Gourlay will remain our book review editor.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-207", "words": "1879", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Girten, Kristin M.", "title": "Opera Omaha and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Stranger from Paradise", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; lawler; omaha; opera; stranger", "summary": "What is William Blake doing in the land of Willa Cather? Omaha, Nebraska, was in bloom with Blake this past May.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-208", "words": "2945", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Sebastian Sch\u00fctze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli, William Blake: The Drawings for Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; century; dante; hell; illustrations; inferno; plate; taschen; william", "summary": "William Blake, Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante (London: National Art-Collections Fund, 1922) follows the titles and order established in Gilchrist\u2019s Life of Blake while correcting some discrepancies in the sale catalogue of Linnell\u2019s collection (Christie\u2019s, 15 March 1918). \u201cWhatever 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\u201d: Blake entered this comment on a sketch in which he visualized the architecture of retribution in Dante\u2019s circles of hell.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-209", "words": "123", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Portnoff, Sharon", "title": "My Poison Tree", "date": "2018", "keywords": "tree", "summary": "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 <\ufeffhttp://\u200bpoetryporch.\u200bcom\ufeff>, and in the collection Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-210", "words": "16106", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "Rosenbach and Blake", "date": "2018", "keywords": "< \ufeffnow; a. white; art; blake; collection; estate; library; lot; rosenbach; rosenwald <; w. a.; white; \ufeffbutlin; \ufeffessick; \ufeffnow library", "summary": "The person who dealt with more copies of Blake\u2019s works than any other was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (1876\u20131952),For Rosenbach\u2019s 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 \u2026 (1936), lot 41, \u201cfolio, gray calf, blind tooled sides,\u201d \u201cproofs on India paper,\u201d $235 <\ufeffuntraced\ufeff>.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-211", "words": "5503", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Smirnov, Dmitri Nikolaevich", "title": "My Blake (Part 1: In Russia)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "albans; blake; london; meladina; mins; moscow; music; performance; piano; press", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-212", "words": "20435", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "77", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2017", "date": "2018", "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", "summary": "For information about these watercolors, their discovery in 2001, and their appearance at auction in 2006, see Martin Butlin, \u201cNew Risen from the Grave: Nineteen Unknown Watercolors by William Blake,\u201d Blake 35.3 (winter 2002): 68-73; Sotheby\u2019s New York, 2 May 2006 catalogue, William Blake: Designs for Blair\u2019s Grave; E. B. Bentley, \u201cGrave Indignities: Greed, Hucksterism, and Oblivion: Blake\u2019s Watercolors for Blair\u2019s Grave,\u201d Blake 40.2 (fall 2006): 66-71; and Essick, \u201cBlake in the Marketplace, 2006,\u201d 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 \u201cSaid to be by William Blake / came from Camden Hotten \u2014 T. H. Mayhew[?] 1876,\u201d and inscribed on the back of the frame \u201cDrawing by W.m.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-213", "words": "1551", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "44", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "G. E. Bentley, Jr., Thomas Macklin (1752\u20131800), Picture-Publisher and Patron: Creator of the Macklin Bible (1791\u20131800)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bible; blake; macklin; prints", "summary": "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\u2019s Bible, an \u201cEnglish\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-214", "words": "4579", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Davies, Keri", "title": "\u201cTwo Newly Discovered Advertisements\u201d: A Response to Wayne C. Ripley", "date": "2018", "keywords": "advertisement; blake; century; family; history; james; london; marriages; milk; ripley; street; william", "summary": "That there are only two known instances of James Blake advertisements is normal for this market. Indeed, the words \u201cplease to direct a Line to A. Z. at Mr. James Blake\u2019s\u201d tell us quite clearly that James Blake is offering a mailbox service.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-215", "words": "6439", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "Properly Cowed: An Answer to Keri Davies", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; carnaby; cattle; century; cows; davies; house; james; london; market; marshall; slaughter; street", "summary": "Parish rate books often recorded the Blakes\u2019 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\u2014besides 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-216", "words": "6452", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "73", "author": "Smirnov, Dmitri Nikolaevich", "title": "My Blake (Part 2: In England)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; london; meladina; mins; music; performance; piano; press; songs", "summary": "Deciding to continue my visionary ballet\u00a0Blake Pictures, I focused now on Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201cSilent, Silent Night,\u201d which was described by Thomas Mann in his Doctor Faustus, the story of the fictitious composer Adrian Leverk\u00fchn:", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-217", "words": "6231", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Castanedo, Fernando", "title": "A Blake Riddle: The Diagonal Pencil Inscription in An Island in the Moon", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; chapter; folios; inscription; island; leaves; line; manuscript; pages; pencil; recto; verso", "summary": "As is well known, the title is not Blake\u2019s, 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); \u201cHere a leaf or more is missing\u201d (David V. Erdman, ed., The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake [1965; New York: Anchor-Random House, 1988] 465); \u201cFour or more pages seem to be missing from the manuscript at this point\u201d (G. E. Bentley, Jr., ed., William Blake\u2019s Writings", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-218", "words": "12849", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2017", "date": "2018", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake and His Circle: Publications and Discoveries from 1992. \u201cAdam 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).\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-219", "words": "3131", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "75", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2017", "date": "2018", "keywords": "apple; blake; contents; duration; links; songs; spotify; william", "summary": "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-\u200bCentury 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-220", "words": "2033", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2017", "date": "2018", "keywords": "blake; british; museum; night; plate", "summary": "British Museum registration number: 1859,0625.2. British Museum registration number: 1847,0318.93.100.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-221", "words": "2574", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Aguilar, Andr\u00e9s Ferrada", "title": "Daniela Pic\u00f3n, Visiones de William Blake: Itinerarios de su recepci\u00f3n en los siglos XIX y XX", "date": "2018", "keywords": "art; blake; imagination; pic\u00f3n; surrealist; visionary; william; work", "summary": "In the opening chapter, titled with a translated quotation from Robert Southey, \u201cEse pintor de un genio grandioso pero demente, William Blake\u201d (That Painter of Great but Insane Genius, William Blake), Pic\u00f3n lays out critical perspectives on the artist\u2019s work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Consequently, Pic\u00f3n\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-222", "words": "3067", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Walker, Luke", "title": "Allen Ginsberg, The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience", "date": "2018", "keywords": "album; blake; dylan; ginsberg; music; sessions; songs", "summary": "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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-223", "words": "4463", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, Petworth House (National Trust), January\u2013March 2018; Andrew Loukes, ed., William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion", "date": "2018", "keywords": "art; blake; butlin; cat; felpham; gallery; hayley; jerusalem; milton; petworth; sussex; works", "summary": "While analysis of the \u201cThree years <Herculean> Labours at Felpham\u201d (E 572) has focused on the composition of Milton and Jerusalem, a wider case about Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-224", "words": "11591", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Spector, Sheila A.", "title": "Reading Jerusalem: The Horizon of Expectations", "date": "2018", "keywords": "adam; albion; blake; chapter; divine; emanation; form; jerusalem; kabbalistic; los; myth; plate; soul; vala; william; world", "summary": "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 \u201cFinishd\u201d (E 784).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-225", "words": "315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2018", "keywords": "university", "summary": "L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 52 NUMBER 2 FALL 2018 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org Article Reading Jerusalem: The Horizon of Expectations By Sheila A. Spector Reviews Daniela Pic\u00f3n, Visiones de William Blake: Itinerarios de su recepci\u00f3n en los siglos XIX y XX Reviewed by Andr\u00e9s Ferrada Aguilar Allen Ginsberg, The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience Reviewed by Luke Walker William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, Petworth House (National Trust), 13 January\u201325 March 2018; Andrew Loukes, ed., William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion Reviewed by Luisa Cal\u00e8 \u00a9 2018", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-226", "words": "10818", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Hobson, Christopher Z.", "title": "Blake, Paul, and Sexual Antinomianism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; body; christ; divine; generation; god; holy; human; image; jesus; law; lines; love; mary; new; paul; sin; temple", "summary": "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 \u201chath never forgiveness,\u201d who can hope to be forgiven?Moskal\u2019s brief discussion of \u201cWas Jesus Chaste\u201d (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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-227", "words": "304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Vol. 52, no. 3 Winter 2018\u201319 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 I L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 52 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2018\u201319 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org Articles Blake, Paul, and Sexual Antinomianism By Christopher Z. Hobson Paper and Watermarks in Blake\u2019s An Island in the Moon By Fernando Castanedo Reviews Christopher M. Bundock, Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism Reviewed by John Patrick James Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus, Tate Liverpool, 16 September 2016\u20133", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-228", "words": "1832", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "James, John Patrick", "title": "Christopher M. Bundock, Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; bundock; history; prophecy; university", "summary": "He cites Alexander Gilchrist, who complains in his 1863 Life of William Blake that America a Prophecy \u201chas no distinctly seizable pretensions to a prophetic character, being, like the rest of Blake\u2019s \u2018Books of Prophecy,\u2019 rather a retrospect, in its mystic way, of events already transpired\u201d (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\u2019s prophetic writings.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-229", "words": "4450", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Castanedo, Fernando", "title": "Paper and Watermarks in Blake\u2019s An Island in the Moon", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; countermark; document; gravell; island; paper; size; watermark", "summary": "But in times of war \u2026 several English paper mills became very patriotic and used the Royal Arms in Foolscap sheets\u201d (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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-230", "words": "3523", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus, Tate Liverpool, September 2016\u2013September 2017", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bed; blake; butlin; death; emin; exhibition; room; tate", "summary": "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\u2019s In Focus series, Tracey Emin (b. 1963) and William Blake (1757\u20131827), two London-based artists, shared exhibition space for almost a year.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-231", "words": "3003", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Michael, Jennifer Davis", "title": "William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, September 2017\u2013March 2018; Stephen F. Eisenman, ed., William Blake and the Age of Aquarius", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; aquarius; art; blake; eisenman; enlargement; exhibition; room; william", "summary": "Elizabeth Ferrell\u2019s \u201cWilliam Blake on the West Coast\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-232", "words": "18797", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "77", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2018", "date": "2019", "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", "summary": "John Windle\u2019s 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, \u201cBlake\u2019s Use of Tempera in Context,\u201d Townsend, ed., William Blake: The Painter at Work (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003) 148.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-233", "words": "280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2019", "keywords": "university", "summary": "B L A K E VOLUME 52, NUMBER 4, SPRING 2019 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-234", "words": "3281", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "\u201cJerusalem\u201d Set to Music: A Selected Discography", "date": "2022", "keywords": "amazon; blake; contents; jerusalem; links; notes; spotify; voice", "summary": "Contents: A. Jerusalem. Contents: A. Jerusalem.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-235", "words": "1208", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Graver, Bruce", "title": "Mark Crosby, ed., \u201cWilliam Blake\u2019s Manuscripts,\u201d Huntington Library Quarterly 80.3 (autumn 2017)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; collection; manuscript; prints", "summary": "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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-236", "words": "2629", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "G. A. Rosso, The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake\u2019s Prophetic Symbolism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; empire; jerusalem; rahab; religion; rosso", "summary": "I have my doubts about the prevalence of the separation of religious from critical thought in Blake studies, but I do take Rosso\u2019s point: even Blake specialists can settle into an all too easy acceptance of certain \u201ctruths\u201d that require periodic questioning and review. He is the author of articles on Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Blake, and Wordsworth.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-237", "words": "721", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Saral, Ramazan", "title": "William Blake, Vahiy Kitaplar\u0131 [Prophetic Works], trans. Kaan H. \u00d6kten", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; \u00f6kten", "summary": "William Blake, Vahiy Kitaplar\u0131 [Prophetic Works], trans. Kaan H. \u00d6kten William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-238", "words": "974", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "G. E. Bentley, Jr., Boondoggles: Travels of a Restless Professor", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; boondoggles; jerry", "summary": "(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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-239", "words": "1664", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2018", "date": "2019", "keywords": "amazon; apple; contents; links; spotify", "summary": "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 \u201cBlake Set to Music: Supplement 2001\u201d in Blake 35.2 (fall 2001), and by Ashanka Kumari in \u201cAdding to Blake Set to Music\u201d 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-\u200bCentury Art, Music and Culture (with Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly, Palgrave, 2012).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-240", "words": "2671", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2018", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; book; butlin; drawings; exhibition; london; museum; sussex; william", "summary": "Albertina, Vienna, DGNF9346/5. 13 January\u201325 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\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-241", "words": "18241", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "71", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2018", "date": "2019", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "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 \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University. I: William Blake Part I: Blake\u2019s 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\u2019s Circle The Ancients Barry, James B\u00f6hme, Jakob Cumberland, George Cunningham, Allan Darwin, Erasmus Douce, Francis Flaxman, John F\u00fcssli, 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-243", "words": "345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "B L A K E AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY The Checklist Issue: Publications, Music, Exhibitions Plus an interview with Martin Myrone on the upcoming Tate exhibition VOLUME 53 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2019 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-244", "words": "230", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2019", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Posthumous B L A K E^ VOLUME 53, NUMBER 2, FALL 2019 Dedicated to G. E. Bentley, Jr. 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-245", "words": "45228", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Viscomi, Joseph", "title": "Posthumous Blake: The Roles of Catherine Blake, C. H. Tatham, and Frederick Tatham in Blake\u2019s Afterlife", "date": "2019", "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", "summary": "Catherine Blake Resides in Mayfair at the Office and Studio of C. H. Tatham Catherine Blake moved to Linnell\u2019s 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\u2019s production\u2014\u200bbut an 1832 watermark does.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-246", "words": "965", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "Gross, Kenneth", "title": "Blake and Bloom, a Memorial Note", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; bloom; milton", "summary": "Blake was also crucial to Bloom\u2019s radical account of poetic influence. It\u2019s worth noting that Bloom first deployed this figure in his 1970 study of Yeats, where he mapped the Irish poet\u2019s emergent struggle with the necessary if also deforming influences of Blake and Shelley.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-247", "words": "1036", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "Kathryn S. Freeman, A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; entry; freeman", "summary": "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\u2019s Dictionary and supplements to it available in Blake scholarship. Supplements have been published since Damon\u2019s time, including Alexander Gourlay\u2019s \u201cA Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts in Blake\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-249", "words": "302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "53, no. 3 winter 2019\u201320 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 53 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2019\u201320 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org Articles Network Theory and Ecology in Blake\u2019s Jerusalem By Jade Hagan Blake\u2019s \u201cHoly Thursday\u201d and \u201cThe Martyrdom of St. Paul\u2019s\u201d By Clare A. Simmons Remembrance Blake and Bloom, a Memorial Note By Kenneth Gross Reviews Kathryn S. Freeman, A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake Reviewed by James Rovira Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley, eds., The Reception of William Blake in Europe Reviewed by Silvia Riccardi Sarah Haggarty, ed., William Blake in Context Reviewed by Alexander S. Gourlay \u00a9 2020", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-250", "words": "1227", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Sarah Haggarty, ed., William Blake in Context", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; book; context; haggarty", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-251", "words": "11819", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Hagan, Jade", "title": "Network Theory and Ecology in Blake\u2019s Jerusalem", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; correspondences; earth; ecology; form; galloway; interconnection; jerusalem; latour; life; material; nature; network; network theory; new; plate; press; thacker; theory; university; world", "summary": "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, \u201cecology is networks\u201d (343). While it\u2019s worth recalling that, for Blake, a thing\u2019s invisibility does not mean that it isn\u2019t real or can\u2019t be felt and experienced, his refusal to depict \u201call\u201d contrasts with the totalizing impulse and desire for mastery through visualization that we find in other deployments of network theory, such as Franco Moretti\u2019s claim in \u201cNetwork Theory, Plot Analysis\u201d: \u201cWhat 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\u201d (10).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-252", "words": "7050", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Simmons, Clare A.", "title": "Blake\u2019s \u201cHoly Thursday\u201d and \u201cThe Martyrdom of St. Paul\u2019s\u201d", "date": "2020", "keywords": "almanack; blake; charity; children; experience; june; london; martyrdom; paul; schools; service; speaker; thursday", "summary": "Under normal circumstances, charity children might have had difficulty obtaining admission to St. Paul\u2019s, which then as now required a fee,The Times records in January 1838 a debate as to whether St. Paul\u2019s should remain open free of charge to the general public on Sunday afternoons. An interesting similarity is that both \u201cHoly Thursday\u201d from Innocence and \u201cThe Martyrdom of St. Paul\u2019s\u201d 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 \u201cin the rhythm of the verse, marching hobbledehoy through the streets of London\u201d (121).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-253", "words": "1891", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Riccardi, Silvia", "title": "Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley, eds., The Reception of William Blake in Europe", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; erle; europe; reception; william; work", "summary": "William Butler Yeats and Edwin John Ellis\u2019s three-volume edition of The Works of William Blake (1893) was a watershed for Blake\u2019s afterlife abroad, proposing an esotericist view of the artist and anticipating Jean H. Hagstrum\u2019s approach to Blake\u2019s work as \u201ccomposite art.\u201d Two years later, in his Book of Irish Verse, Yeats further affirmed that \u201cWilliam 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\u201d (quoted in Reception 39).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-254", "words": "637", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mulhallen, Karen", "title": "The Publisher Not Mad", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; edwards", "summary": "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\u2019s demise, since Blake and Edwards died in the same year, 1827, Blake in August and Richard in October. Given the facts of Richard Edwards\u2019s life, I was surprised to read in the Tate Britain exhibition catalogue (p. 105), \u201cAfter Edwards\u2019s 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.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-255", "words": "267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2020", "keywords": "university", "summary": "B L A K E Vol. 53, no. 4 Spring 2020 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University Robert N. Essick, University of California, Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-256", "words": "14193", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2019", "date": "2020", "keywords": "auction; blake; calf; cat; contemporary; copy; dec; estimate; feb; half; illus; june; london; march; morocco; nov; online; pls; price; vols; william; windle", "summary": "Butlin Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 vols. plate(s) SK Skinner auctions, Boston SL Sotheby\u2019s auctions, London SP Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake:", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-257", "words": "10073", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "William Blake, Tate Britain, 11 September 2019\u20132 February 2020; Martin Myrone and Amy Concannon, with an afterword by Alan Moore, William Blake", "date": "2020", "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", "summary": "The exhibition paid great attention to the \u201c\u2018bookishness\u2019 of the books\u201d and their modes of operation, suggesting their different \u201cenvironments and experiences,\u201d \u201chow 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,\u201dMyrone in Luisa Cal\u00e8, \u201cWilliam Blake: The Artist (Tate Britain, 11 September 2019\u20132 February 2020): An Interview with Martin Myrone,\u201d Blake 53.1 (summer 2019). Musician as the Inspiration comes,\u201d Blake wrote to his friend George Cumberland in 1800.Transcribed in Robert N. Essick and Morton D. Paley, \u201c\u2018Dear Generous Cumberland\u2019: A Newly Discovered Letter and Poem by William Blake,\u201d Blake 32.1 (summer 1998): 4-13; discussed in Sarah Haggarty, Blake\u2019s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 44.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-258", "words": "3242", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "James Rovira, ed., Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; dylan; essays; music; rock; romanticism; songs; wordsworth", "summary": "As such, they build on demonstrable points of contact between the Romantic writer and rock music\u2014\u200bJagger 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 \u201cTangled Up in Blake: The Triangular Relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the Beats,\u201d Walker invokes a \u201cBlakean Romanticism\u201d (7) as he examines the \u201ccomplex 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\u2019s relationship with the poetry of William Blake\u201d (1).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-259", "words": "318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "B L A K E VOLUME 54 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2020 Exhibitions Music Publications 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Cover: Blake, The Horse (c. 1805), one of the works in the William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain, 2019\u201320.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-260", "words": "1391", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "Dmitri Smirnov, 1948\u20132020", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; music; russian; smirnov", "summary": "It is hard to imagine that Dmitri Smirnov, an enthusiast and inspired man, a true connoisseur of William Blake, has left our world. \u201d\u201cBlake and Music,\u201d The Reception of William Blake in Europe, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-261", "words": "25018", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2019", "date": "2020", "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", "summary": "\u201cSolid\u00e3o, evas\u00e3o e revolta do eu-l\u00edrico no poema \u2018London,\u2019 de William Blake (Solitude, Evasion, and Revolt of the Liric [sic] Self in the Poem \u2018London,\u2019 by William Blake).\u201d 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 H\u00fcseyin AlhasResearch for \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-262", "words": "6494", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "73", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2019", "date": "2020", "keywords": "archive; art; blake; book; british; butlin; collection; copy; exhibition; gallery; illustrations; john; library; museum; national; plate; tate; victoria; william", "summary": "There is No Natural Religion copy B (composed c.\u20091788, printed c.\u20091794). Together with William Westall\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-263", "words": "2005", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2019", "date": "2020", "keywords": "amazon; apple; blake; contents; links; spotify", "summary": "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-\u200bCentury 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-264", "words": "2396", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Peter Otto, ed., William Blake; Nicholas Shrimpton, ed., William Blake: Selected Poems", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; edition; notes; otto; oxford; shrimpton", "summary": "They have \u201cin practice, been made by removing the modernizing editorial interventions from the text established by Geoffrey Keynes in 1957 \u2026\u201d (xxxvii), restoring Blake\u2019s 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 \u201cChronology of William Blake,\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-266", "words": "1798", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "Sendak and Blake Illustrating \u201cSongs of Innocence\u201d with an Essay by Prof. Robert N. Essick", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; essick; innocence; sendak; songs", "summary": "Maurice Sendak studied Blake\u2019s 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, \u201cThe Coming Together of All My Various Worlds: Maurice Sendak on Receiving the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator\u2019s Medal,\u201d Top of the News 26 (1970): 368.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-267", "words": "3980", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "An Overannotated \u201cAuguries of Innocence\u201d", "date": "2020", "keywords": "auguries; blake; cruelty; form; god; heaven; hell; innocence; lines; poem; poison; soul", "summary": "Recently, in reviewing two new editions of Blake, I used \u201cAuguries of Innocence\u201d as a test case to assess the explanatory notes provided by the editors. Blake dismissed the ancient Romans as \u201cslaves of the Sword\u201c (E 95), victimizers and victims of a pervasive and pernicious imperial culture of war; by adding \u201cof Innocence\u201d to \u201cAuguries\u201d in the title he suggests a distinction between his benign visionary practice and the corrupt Roman form.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-268", "words": "1063", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "James Blake of Rotherhithe, Timber Merchant", "date": "2020", "keywords": "blake; james; rotherhithe", "summary": "identity of William Blake\u2019s paternal grandfather, James Blake I,As this formulation suggests, I refer in this note to Blake\u2019s grandfather as James Blake I and his father as James Blake II. rests on two documents associated with Blake\u2019s father: first, James Blake II\u2019s apprenticeship indenture with the linen draper Francis Smith, where James Blake I is identified as \u201cJames Blake of Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey Gentleman,\u201dG. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. James Blake of Ratcliff had a son and a grandson named James (like Blake\u2019s father and brother), a wife named Elizabeth (like Blake\u2019s paternal grandmother and the middle name of his sister), a brother named John (like Blake\u2019s brothers\u2014one of whom died before the other was born),Bentley\u2019s claim that James Blake II had a brother named John is not supported by any documentary evidence.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-269", "words": "9349", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Rosso, G. A.", "title": "Interpreting Blake\u2019s The Magdalene at the Sepulchre", "date": "2020", "keywords": "art; blake; body; divine; gospel; jerusalem; jesus; john; magdalene; mary; mary magdalene; new; rahab; resurrection; sepulchre; tomb; vala", "summary": "also states that Blake\u2019s treatment is \u201ca spiritual counterpart\u201d or contrary \u201cto Rembrandt\u2019s chiaroscuro\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-270", "words": "282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2020", "keywords": "university", "summary": "B L A K E VOLUME 54 NUMBER 2 FALL 2020 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Pereira Minute Particulars James Blake of Rotherhithe, Timber Merchant By Wayne C. Ripley An Overannotated \u201cAuguries of Innocence\u201d By Alexander S. Gourlay Review Sendak and Blake Illustrating \u201cSongs of Innocence\u201d with an Essay by Prof. Robert N. Essick Reviewed by Mark Crosby \u00a9 2020", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-272", "words": "6015", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Steil, Juliana; Flores Pereira, Lawrence", "title": "Translating Blake\u2019s Prophetic Poetry: The Case of Milton", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ballad; blake; english; form; lines; macpherson; metre; milton; para; poetry; portuguese; translation; verse; william", "summary": "\u201cTradu\u00e7\u00e3o comentada de Milton de William Blake.\u201d x - x - x - \u201cThe groans,\u201d he said, \u201cof 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\u2019s soul.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-275", "words": "4146", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "John E. Grant, 1925\u20132020", "date": "2021", "keywords": "author; blake; essays; jack; quarterly; review; studies; william; work", "summary": "A review of Damon, Blake\u2019s \u201cGrave\u201d\u200a; Adams, William Blake; Bentley, ed., William Blake, \u201cVala\u201d or \u201cThe Four Zoas.\u201d 12. Reviews of Erdman, Blake: Prophet against Empire, rev. ed.; Raine, William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-276", "words": "8582", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Chen, Kang-Po", "title": "Violence, Death, and Autoeroticism: The Alternative Self-Annihilation in Visions of the Daughters of Albion", "date": "2021", "keywords": "autoeroticism; blake; bromion; desire; imagination; love; masturbation; oothoon; plate; pleasure; rape; rousseau; self; theotormon; university; violence; visions", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-277", "words": "5255", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Hagen, Katharina", "title": "\u201cIf you want to learn the secrets, close your eyes\u201d: Bruce Dickinson\u2019s \u201cGates of Urizen\u201d as Contrary Version of The [First] Book of Urizen", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; bruce; chemical; dickinson; eyes; gates; los; object; urizen; wedding", "summary": "Quotations from Urizen are from its latest realization, copy G. Urizen is introduced as a \u201cdark power\u201d that has hidden in obscurity, a lurking threat. \u201cGates,\u201d however, proclaims contrast, earthbound Urizen versus airborne Los, and Dickinson provides an alternative ending to Blake\u2019s text.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-278", "words": "289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2021", "keywords": "university", "summary": "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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-279", "words": "3840", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "King, Shelley; Pierce, John B.", "title": "\u201cRemarkable both for Genius, & Extravagance\u201d: Amelia Opie and Blake\u2019s Illustrations of the Book of Job", "date": "2021", "keywords": "alderson; amelia; art; blake; correspondence; david; job; letter; mrs; opie", "summary": "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 \u2026 by the Late John Opie (1809), Amelia Opie writes, \u201cHe next published a letter in a daily paper It is readily identifiable by its inscription: \u201cThis 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\u2014\u200bParis\u2014\u200b4me Mo 22me 1831\u201d (see illus.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-280", "words": "8955", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2020", "date": "2021", "keywords": "april; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; copy; half; illus; march; online; price; vols; windle", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-281", "words": "8314", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ritchie, Caroline Anjali", "title": "Diagrammatic Blake: Tracing the Critical Reception of \u201cThe Mental Traveller\u201d", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; criticism; cycle; diagrams; frye; mental; orc; poem; press; traveller; university; william; william blake; yeats", "summary": "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 \u2026. 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-282", "words": "247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2021", "keywords": "university", "summary": "B L A K E VOLUME 54 NUMBER 4 SPRING 2021 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-283", "words": "3901", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "36", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Edina Adam with Julian Brooks, William Blake: Visionary; Lives of William Blake: Henry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, Alexander Gilchrist, introduced by Martin Myrone", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; blake; book; collection; exhibition; getty; london; museum; tate; william; william blake; works", "summary": "He traces the Mellons\u2019 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, \u201cWilliam Blake and Paul Mellon: The Life of the Mind,\u201d Public Domain Review (7 October 2014), <\ufeffhttps://\u200bpublicdomainreview.\u200borg/\u200bessay/\u200bwilliam-\u200bblake-\u200band-\u200bpaul-\u200bmellon-\u200bthe-\u200blife-\u200bof-\u200bthe-\u200bmind\ufeff>, accessed 3 May 2021. Henry Crabb Robinson\u2019s \u201cWilliam Blake, K\u00fcnstler, Dichter und religi\u00f6ser Schw\u00e4rmer\u201d (\u201cArtist, Poet, and Religious Mystic\u201d), published in German in the second volume of Vaterl\u00e4ndisches Museum in 1811 and here reproduced from a revised translation originally published in 1914, demonstrates how Blake was introduced to German readers.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-284", "words": "2244", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2020", "date": "2021", "keywords": "amazon; apple; blake; contents; links; spotify", "summary": "Three William Blake Songs: No. 1, Infant Joy; 4. Three William Blake Songs: No. 2, My Pretty Rose Tree; 5.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-285", "words": "320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Blake \u2022 volume 55 n um be r 1 \u2022 su m m er 20 21 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 I Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-286", "words": "22141", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020", "date": "2021", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "Letters (1791\u20131827) 18 January 1808 to Ozias Humphry For a Portuguese translation, see Tavares, \u201cWilliam Blake e a (re)vis\u00e3o do ju\u00edzo final,\u201d 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 \u201ckept the Divine Vision in time of trouble\u201d (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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas Works in Russian and Other Cyrillic Languages Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) is a professorResearch for \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d in English was conducted at the Krueger Library at Winona State University.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-287", "words": "4139", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2020", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; book; british; canada; exhibition; gallery; house; illustrations; london; national; surrealism; time; trianon; william", "summary": "While Blake\u2019s impact on surrealism is now well documented,Mei-Ying Sung, \u201cBlake and Surrealism,\u201d Blake 2.0: William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture, ed. Surrealism\u2019s European coordinates are explored in Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley\u2019s The Reception of William Blake in Europe (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)\u2014\u200bsurprisingly 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 Andr\u00e9 Breton at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2015 is discussed by Cristina Flores in \u201cThe Reception of Blake in Spain\u201d in relation to the role of surrealism in connecting Blake to Dal\u00ed and Mir\u00f3 (1: 177-78).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-289", "words": "627", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "\u201cAll his neighbourhood bewail his loss\u201d: Bo Ossian Lindberg, 1937\u20132021", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; william", "summary": "Continuing his passionate engagement with Blake\u2019s 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. \u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b. Review of David Bindman and Simon Baker, William Blake 1757\u20131827", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-290", "words": "13983", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hobson, Christopher Z.", "title": "Blake, Methodism, and \u201cChristian Perfection\u201d", "date": "2021", "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", "summary": "Blake, Methodism, and \u201cChristian Perfection\u201d Blake, Methodism, and \u201cChristian Perfection\u201d 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\u2019s Idea of Revolution, Blake and Homosexuality, and The Mount of Vision: African American Prophetic Tradition, 1800\u2013\u200b1950, among other works. This essay argues that Blake rejected John Wesley\u2019s teaching of \u201cChristian perfection\u201d and examines the implications of this rejection for Blake\u2019s ideas of morality, conduct, and social and sexual freedom.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-291", "words": "9601", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Riccardi, Silvia", "title": "The Body in the Line: \u201cTrasumanar\u201d in Blake\u2019s Dante", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; artist; blake; body; cary; commedia; dante; divine; form; gallery; god; human; imagination; inferno; light; line; paradiso; press; university; watercolor; william; william blake", "summary": "Toward the end of his life, the sixty-seven-year-old William Blake approached Dante\u2019s incommunicable experience by revisiting his poetics of line versus color. On Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-292", "words": "3807", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Yoder, R. Paul", "title": "Sheila A. Spector, The Evolution of Blake\u2019s Myth", "date": "2021", "keywords": "act; blake; book; esoteric; jerusalem; myth; narrative; spector", "summary": "(255) The typical reader may well have found the terms of this summary baffling at the outset of Spector\u2019s 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, \u201cBlake Interpreting Blake: The Gates of Paradise,\u201d demonstrates \u201chow Blake used the consolidated myth as the basis for reinterpreting his own work\u201d (255), in this case \u201cto 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\u201d (259). In \u201cConclusion: The Truth of Myth,\u201d Spector goes back to Frye to consider how the exoteric approach gained dominance in Blake studies.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-293", "words": "2390", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "Susan Mitchell Sommers, The Siblys of London: A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; ebenezer; london; manoah; new; sommers", "summary": "The book focuses largely on the two oldest brothers, Manoah (1757\u2013\u200b1840), a Swedenborgian minister and Bank of England employee, whom the Blakes almost certainly met, and Ebenezer (1750\u2013\u200b99), 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\u2013\u200b87) and Ebenezer; the third, Charity Standard (d. 1768), was the mother of Manoah and Job (1760\u2013\u200b1815); and the fourth, Elizabeth Read, was the mother of Charity (1772\u2013\u200b1847).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-294", "words": "295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2021", "keywords": "university", "summary": "5 5, n o. 2 , f al l 2 02 1 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-296", "words": "3694", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "The Mental Travellers: On Blake\u2019s Reception by Nikolai Gumilyov", "date": "2021", "keywords": "akhmatova; blake; gumilyov; moscow; poet; poetry; publ; russian; translation; traveller", "summary": "\u2026 Here we can already speak about the influence of \u2026 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\u2019s Poems of William Blake (1905), where the quatrains of \u201cThe Mental Traveller\u201d are not numbered\u2014\u200bunlike Gilchrist/\u200bRossetti in 1863 and Ellis/\u200bYeats in 1893.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-297", "words": "5217", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "61", "author": "Baki\u0107, Tanja", "title": "\u201cRe-mediating\u02ee William Blake in Croatia and Serbia", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; artist; blake; jovani\u0107; new; pozai\u0107; raj\u010devi\u0107; theory; translation; william; work", "summary": "Interestingly, those handmade books by Blake \u201chave been closely bound up with his posthumous fate\u201d (Eaves, \u201cOn Blakes\u201d 415), \u201calmost 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 \u2018interdiscipline\u2019\u02ee (Mulhallen 782). \u201cRe-mediating\u02ee William Blake in Croatia and Serbia \u201cRe-mediating\u02ee William Blake in Croatia and Serbia By Tanja Baki\u0107 Tanja Baki\u0107 is a published poet and literary translator from Montenegro.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-298", "words": "11222", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "To See the Worlds of a Grain of Sand: Blake and Reception", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; blake; books; context; culture; goode; history; literature; media; new; readers; reading; reception; text; university; william; william blake; works; world", "summary": "Colin Trodd\u2019s Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World, 1830\u2013\u200b1930\u00a0(2012) remedied this bias by investigating the afterlife of Blake\u2019s paintings in Victorian art and art criticism, outlining \u201chow different models of Blake relate to key perceptions of modern art\u201d (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? \u2026", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-299", "words": "385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Blake in Europe, edited by Sibylle Erle: cover and table of contents", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; university; william", "summary": "I William Blake\u2019s Black Bible as a Spectacle of Doom: A Recent Note to Blakean Reception in Romania By C\u0103t\u0103lin Ghi\u021b\u0103 \u201cI inhabited the Land of Ulro long before Blake taught me its proper name\u201d: Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz\u2019s Ziemia Ulro/The Land of Ulro By Eliza Borkowska Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa\u2019s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy By Luisa Cal\u00e8 The Mental Travellers: On Blake\u2019s Reception by Nikolai Gumilyov By Vera Serdechnaia Part II \u201cRe-mediating\u201d William Blake in Croatia and Serbia By Tanja Baki\u0107 \u201cSick as a Rose\u201d: William Blake in Leopoldo Mar\u00eda Panero\u2019s Poetry of Experience By Cristina Flores Portuguese Readings of William Blake: Fernando Pessoa, a National Poet, and Tr\u00eas Tristes Tigres, a Pop-Rock Band By Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, Cl\u00e1udia Franco Souza, and Jo\u00e3o Carlos Callixto \u201cBlake was a phenomenon\u201d: Artistic, Domestic, and Blakean Visions in Joseph Paul Hodin\u2019s Writing on Else and Ludwig Meidner By Sibylle Erle \u00a9 2022 BLAKE 55.3 winter 2021\u201322 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-300", "words": "8015", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa\u2019s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "berardi; beulah; blake; book; comic; costa; figure; french; grid; italian; jerusalem; left; order; page; panels; revolution; right; scene; william; words; writing", "summary": "In so doing, Costa\u2019s Italian Blake produces a visionary encoding for an open-ended history of the present. Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa\u2019s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy Reading Revolutions: Corrado Costa\u2019s William Blake in Beulah, a Visionary Cartoon Essay in 1977 Italy By Luisa Cal\u00e8 Luisa Cal\u00e8 (l.cale@bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck, University of London, works on practices of reading, viewing, and collecting in the Romantic period.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-301", "words": "3130", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ghi\u021b\u0103, C\u0103t\u0103lin", "title": "William Blake\u2019s Black Bible as a Spectacle of Doom: A Recent Note to Blakean Reception in Romania", "date": "2021", "keywords": "biblia; black; blake; lui; neagr\u0103; nichita; play; romania; william", "summary": "The radio play William Blake\u2019s Black Bible (Biblia neagr\u0103 a lui William Blake) II Biblia neagr\u0103 a lui William Blake was written and directed by the talented Romanian artist Ilinca Stihi.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-302", "words": "4404", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Flores, Cristina", "title": "\u201cSick as a Rose\u201d: William Blake in Leopoldo Mar\u00eda Panero\u2019s Poetry of Experience", "date": "2021", "keywords": "blake; completa; del; experience; leopoldo; mar\u00eda; panero; poes\u00eda; poetry; que; rosa; rose; tiger", "summary": "\u201cLa herencia maldita (Leopoldo Mar\u00eda Panero y el virus del Romanticismo).\u201d Se podr\u00edan llamar, en recuerdo de Blake, Proverbios infernales.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-303", "words": "6099", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Borkowska, Eliza", "title": "\u201cI inhabited the Land of Ulro long before Blake taught me its proper name\u201d: Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz\u2019s Ziemia Ulro/The Land of Ulro", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; book; english; land; language; literature; man; mi\u0142osz; polish; translation; ulro; ziemia; ziemia ulro", "summary": "On the contrary, Mi\u0142osz 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, Mi\u0142osz 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-304", "words": "9801", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Sousa, Alcinda Pinheiro de; Souza, Cl\u00e1udia Franco; Callixto, Jo\u00e3o Carlos", "title": "Portuguese Readings of William Blake: Fernando Pessoa, a National Poet, and Tr\u00eas Tristes Tigres, a Pop-Rock Band", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; english; fernando pessoa; lisbon; new; nova; pessoa; poem; poesia; poetry; portugal; portuguese; que; reception; rock; studies; tyger; university; william; william blake", "summary": "Her book Fernando Pessoa e os Romantismos: Ingl\u00eas, Franc\u00eas, Portugu\u00eas e Alem\u00e3o (Fernando Pessoa and Romanticism: English, French, Portuguese, and German) appeared in 2019, and she has coedited Pessoa\u2019s Hist\u00f3ria da Literatura Inglesa (History of English Literature) (2021), as well as two other volumes of his works, The Transformation Book\u2014\u200bor 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, <\ufeffhttp://\u200bpurl.\u200bpt/\u200b13901/\u200b1/\u200bP102.\u200bhtml\ufeff>.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-305", "words": "13797", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "\u201cBlake was a phenomenon\u201d: Artistic, Domestic, and Blakean Visions in Joseph Paul Hodin\u2019s Writing on Else and Ludwig Meidner", "date": "2022", "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", "summary": "He would have seen Blake\u2019s works at the Tate\u2019s Wartime Acquisitions exhibitions (1942 and 1945), as well as at the major Blake exhibition at the Tate in 1947 (see Erle, \u201cMeidner und Blake\u201d). See Erle, \u201cMeidner und Blake.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-308", "words": "2872", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "38", "author": "Walker, Luke", "title": "Linda Freedman, William Blake and the Myth of America: From the Abolitionists to the Counterculture", "date": "2022", "keywords": "america; blake; book; chapter; freedman; ginsberg; reception; william", "summary": "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\u2019s monograph Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World, 1830\u2013\u200b1930 (2012) and Edward Larrissy\u2019s Blake and Modern Literature (2006).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-309", "words": "12942", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2021", "date": "2022", "keywords": "auction; blake; butlin; calf; cat; copy; drawing; estimate; half; illus; john; july; linnell; march; online; paper; pencil; price; vols; william; windle", "summary": "Eleven pp., including title reading \u201cWilliam 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-310", "words": "571", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "34", "author": "Schuchard, Marsha Keith", "title": "Adam Komisaruk, Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; komisaruk", "summary": "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/\u200bGauthier Pierozak Editeur, 2018) and A Concatenation of Conspiracies: \u201cIrish\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-311", "words": "2618", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Erasmus Darwin,\u00a0The Botanic Garden, ed. Adam Komisaruk and Allison Dushane", "date": "2022", "keywords": "anemone; blake; book; darwin; garden; images; thel", "summary": "For an attempt at characterizing Blake\u2019s view of Darwin, see Ya-Feng Wu, \u201cBlake\u2019s Critique of Erasmus Darwin\u2019s Botanic Garden,\u201d 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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-313", "words": "306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2022", "keywords": "university", "summary": "B L A K E VOLUME 55 NUMBER 4 SPRING 2022 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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 Special Collections, Princeton University Library.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-314", "words": "11417", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Worrall, David", "title": "\u201cSeen in my visions\u201d: Kl\u00fcver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations in William Blake\u2019s Paintings and Illuminated Books", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; blake; books; cobweb; constants; cortex; form; hallucinations; image; kl\u00fcver; kl\u00fcver form; light; migraine; milton; neural; patterns; percepts; plate; spiral; visions; william; william blake", "summary": "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\u2019s Blake Books (1977) or Blake Books Supplement (1995), but appear in \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2012,\u201d Blake 47.1 (summer 2013).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-317", "words": "23479", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, H\u00fcseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2021", "date": "2022", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas Works in Russian Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) is a professorResearch for \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d was conducted in: Krueger Library at Winona State University (for works in English); the Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 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 \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Bilkent University Library (for works in Turkish); and Kuban State University (for works in Russian).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-318", "words": "2880", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2021", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bandcamp; blake; guitar; link; streaming; track; voice", "summary": "Argoal \u2014 France The Chapel; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. 00:02:06. Argoal \u2014 France The Garden of Love; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. 00:03:48.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-319", "words": "3691", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2021", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; blake; butlin; circle; dante; exhibition; gallery; illustrations; inferno; job; melanie; museum; smith; swedenborg", "summary": "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\u2019s \u201cDante on vellum,\u201d series of illustrations by Federico Zuccari and Giovanni Stradano, John Flaxman\u2019s \u201csevere linear style\u201d associated with \u201cBotticelli\u2019s graphic purity,\u201d and then Blake, praised for \u201cimagining, especially for the Inferno, iconographies endowed with extraordinary fantastic-visionary impact.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-320", "words": "279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Cover: Detail of Blake, The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (1824\u201327).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-321", "words": "12019", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "72", "author": "Davis, Matthew M.", "title": "The House of Aumont and Blake\u2019s French Revolution", "date": "2022", "keywords": "alexandre; assembly; aumont; blake; c\u00e9leste; des; duke; d\u2019aumont; family; french; henri; king; lafayette; london; louis; marie; paris; poem; revolution; royal; villequier; xvi", "summary": "The younger son, Louis-Alexandre-C\u00e9leste, succeeded his father as premier gentilhomme de la chambre du roi (first gentleman of the king\u2019s 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\u2019Aumont was the Duke of Aumont and Louis-Alexandre-C\u00e9leste d\u2019Aumont was the Duke of Villequier Aumont.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-322", "words": "5394", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Wilson, Louise", "title": "Printing Imperfections in William Blake\u2019s Virgil Wood Engravings and What They Reveal", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; engravings; impressions; ink; lines; paper; printing; virgil; wood", "summary": "While most prints in the Ionides album are on China paper, at first sight the impressions of \u201cWith Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow,\u201d \u201cColinet\u2019s Fond Desire Strange Lands to Know,\u201d \u201cColinet Mocked by Two Boys,\u201d and Calvert\u2019s \u201cThe Ploughman\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-323", "words": "808", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Augurios de inocencia", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; castanedo", "summary": "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 \u201cmost celebrated\u201d poem.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-324", "words": "286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 56 NUMBER 2 FALL 2022 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org Articles The House of Aumont and Blake\u2019s French Revolution By Matthew M. Davis Printing Imperfections in William Blake\u2019s Virgil Wood Engravings and What They Reveal By Louise Wilson Reviews Mike Goode, Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen and the New Messages of Old Media Reviewed by James Rovira Marsha Keith Schuchard, A Concatenation of Conspiracies: \u201cIrish\u201d William Blake and Illuminist Freemasonry in 1798 Reviewed by Josephine A. McQuail Fernando Castanedo, ed. and trans., William Blake, Augurios de inocencia Reviewed by Alexander S. Gourlay \u00a9 2022 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 2 FALL 2022 B L A K E 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-326", "words": "2444", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "Mike Goode, Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; goode; media; proverbs; text", "summary": "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\u2019Gorman, his readings of Blake feel new and original. The two on Blake are divided between written texts, specifically the Proverbs of Hell (chapter 2, \u201cBlakespotting\u201d), and visual texts (chapter 3, \u201cThe Joy of Looking: What William Blake\u2019s Pictures Want\u201d).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-327", "words": "2339", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "McQuail, Josephine A.", "title": "Marsha Keith Schuchard, A Concatenation of Conspiracies: \u201cIrish\u201d William Blake and Illuminist Freemasonry in 1798", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; concatenation; erdman; irish; new; schuchard; william", "summary": "Schuchard\u2019s research in Moravian archives in 2001 (Davies, \u201cWilliam Blake in Contexts\u201d 4) (with subsequent collaboration with Keri Davies) resulted in the announcement in 2004 in these pages of her startling discovery that Blake\u2019s mother had attended the Moravian Church, and that the church took a decided interest in\u2014\u200bas it did with all church members\u2014\u200bCatherine Wright\u2019s 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: \u201cSensible 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 \u2026 and dig deep into the esoteric underground of the mystical counterculture\u201d (William Blake 10).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-328", "words": "28060", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Martello, Matthew", "title": "The Notebook, Laoco\u00f6n, and Blake\u2019s Beauties of Inflection", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; arts; bentley; blake; blake archive; books; british; composite; copy; eaves; emblem; erdman; example; image; laoco\u00f6n; 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; \u200b\u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b.", "summary": "And in his new biography William Blake vs. the World (2021), John Higgs suggests that Blake\u2019s understanding of the liberatory potential of \u201cself-annihilation\u201d tracks with recent research into the \u201cstubbornly practical and rational \u2026 default mode network\u201d 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. \u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b. \u201cWilliam Blake, Illuminated Books, and the Concept of Difference.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-329", "words": "7150", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Lincoln, Andrew", "title": "Blake, Lucretius, and Prophecy: The Book of Los", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; book; century; creation; epicurean; london; los; lucretius; milton; newton; urizen; vision; work; world", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-330", "words": "5365", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Rosso, G. A.", "title": "Lucy Cogan, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "action; blake; cogan; divine; failure; los; new; prophecy; prophet; visionary", "summary": "Review: Lucy Cogan, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy Lucy Cogan. Blake and the Failure of Prophecy.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-331", "words": "245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Cover: The Notebook of William Blake. Blake AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY volume 56, number 3 winter 2022\u201323 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-333", "words": "1582", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "John Higgs, William Blake Now; John Higgs, William Blake vs. the World", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; higgs; william; works", "summary": "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\u2019s works as he is in what went on in Blake\u2019s, while at the same time leading us to think about how Blake\u2019s response to his world can help us to respond to ours.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-334", "words": "12059", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "80", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2022", "date": "2023", "keywords": "2nd; auction; blake; books; calf; cat; contemporary; copy; feb; half; illus; online; paper; plates; pls; price; right; vols; windle", "summary": "Blake, Works by William Blake \u2026 Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Editions. Blake, Poems from William Blake\u2019s \u201cSongs of Innocence,\u201d illus.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-335", "words": "8668", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Harley, Alexis; Knowles, Claire; Murray, Chris", "title": "Prophet against Empire? William Blake in Australia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; australia; blake; century; empire; england; english; felton; gallery; london; melbourne; national; new; ngv; south; sydney; university; victoria; william; william blake; work", "summary": "This movement coincided with the publication of the late-Victorian books that began to bring Blake to a wider audience: William Muir\u2019s facsimiles of 1884\u2013\u200b90, the second edition of Alexander Gilchrist\u2019s Life of William Blake (1880), and, crucially, Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats\u2019s The Works of William Blake (1893). In May 1897, a review reprinted in the literature-focused \u201cRed Page\u201d 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: \u201cAmong the visionary persons who presented themselves to William Blake was the man who built the Pyramids\u201d (Dowden).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-337", "words": "3858", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "Rovira, James", "title": "Joseph Fletcher, William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788\u20131795", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; chapter; fletcher; pantheism; philosophy; position; reading", "summary": "Fletcher associates Blake with a \u201cPlatonically derived pantheism\u201d (49), so that Blake identifies God not only with humanity but with the entire material universe. It\u2019s possible that one of the greatest insights into Blake that Fletcher offers is the interrelatedness of these two questions: What was Blake\u2019s religion or theology?", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-338", "words": "351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; robert; university", "summary": "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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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); \u201cThomas Hayley\u201d 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).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-339", "words": "3162", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "75", "author": "Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2022", "date": "2023", "keywords": "amazon; apple; guitar; links; spotify; streaming; track; voice", "summary": "Andy Brown\u2019s Victorian Karaoke \u2014 UK From Andy Brown\u2019s Victorian Karaoke\u200a; for voice, guitar. [Chris Engels] \u2014 Germany From Tesla\u200a; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, synthesizers.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-340", "words": "271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker 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 2022 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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas, and works in Russian contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Blake and Exhibitions, 2022 By Luisa Cal\u00e8 Blake and Music, 2022 By Camila Oliveira and Jason Whittaker publications exhibitions music B 57.1 a e kl 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-341", "words": "28548", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, H\u00fcseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2022", "date": "2023", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas Works in Russian Contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Wayne C. Ripley (wripley@winona.edu) currently servesResearch for \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle\u201d was conducted in: Krueger Library at Winona State University (for works in English); the Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 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\u2019s 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:", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-342", "words": "6843", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2022", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; blake; book; british; catalogue; copy; dante; drawing; exhibition; fuseli; gallery; illustrations; library; morgan; museum; plate; sendak; tate; university; wainewright; wood; works", "summary": "Wainewright owned Jerusalem copy B; see G. E. Bentley, Jr., \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2001,\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-343", "words": "4856", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Effinger, Elizabeth; Bruder, Helen P.", "title": "A Conversation with Helen Bruder", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; book; wbda; work", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-344", "words": "13965", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Rosso, G. A. ", "title": "Redefining Apocalypse in Blake Studies", "date": "2023", "keywords": "apocalypse; apocalyptic; blake; end; eschatology; form; frye; god; history; jesus; john; literature; los; milton; moment; new; prophecy; revelation; rowland; time; vision", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-345", "words": "4160", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Sherlock, Lisa", "title": "William Blake\u2019s Annotations to Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost: New Evidence for Attribution", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bentley; blake; cowper; hayley; library; milton; paradise; william", "summary": "In reviewing Phillips\u2019s book William Blake: The Creation of the \u201cSongs\u201d from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (2000), Alexander Gourlay agreed that while the \u201cWB\u201d 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\u2019s text. In \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle, 2002,\u201d 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 \u201cWilliam Blake and His Circle, 2008.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-347", "words": "4319", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Thomson, Ian", "title": "William Blake\u2019s \u201cIntroduction\u201d to Songs of Innocence: The Role of the Pipe", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blake; innocence; instrument; pan; piper; poem; press; reed; shepherd; songs", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-348", "words": "269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Interview A Conversation with Helen Bruder Elizabeth Effinger and Helen P. Bruder Articles William Blake\u2019s Annotations to Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost : New Evidence for Attribution By Lisa Sherlock Redefining Apocalypse in Blake Studies By G. A. Rosso William Blake\u2019s \u201cIntroduction\u201d to Songs of Innocence : The Role of the Pipe By Ian Thomson Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Cover: Blake, Angel of the Revelation (also known as \u201cAnd the angel which I saw lifted up his hand to Heaven\u201d ) (c. 1805).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-349", "words": "258", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Eaves, Morris; Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Book Review Editor", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake", "summary": "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 is the editorial director of Global Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-350", "words": "284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover", "date": "2024", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Jason Whittaker managing editor: Sarah Jones sarah.jones@rochester.edu production office: Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 News Book Review Editor By Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Article Blake\u2019s Hervey, Thomas Butts, and Methodism By Dennis M. Read Interview William Blake\u2019s Universe: An Interview with David Bindman and Esther Chadwick By Luisa Cal\u00e8 Discussion A Copy of Richard Bentley\u2019s Edition of Paradise Lost in William Hayley\u2019s Library c. 1802 By Mark Crosby B L A K E VOLUME 57 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2023\u201324 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-351", "words": "6481", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Read, Dennis M.", "title": "Blake\u2019s Hervey, Thomas Butts, and Methodism", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; butts; epitome; figures; god; hervey; james; john; life; love; meditations; painting; thomas; wesley; whitefield; work", "summary": "Blake, Epitome of James Hervey\u2019s \u201cMeditations among the Tombs.\u201d Blake doesn\u2019t take liberties with the text so much as he finds a prevailing message of love and forgiveness in Hervey\u2019s words.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-352", "words": "2599", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa; David Bindman; Chadwick, Esther", "title": "William Blake\u2019s Universe: An Interview with David Bindman and Esther Chadwick", "date": "2024", "keywords": "art; blake; cambridge; exhibition; fitzwilliam; museum; runge", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-353", "words": "4361", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "57", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "A Copy of Richard Bentley\u2019s Edition of Paradise Lost in William Hayley\u2019s Library c. 1802", "date": "2024", "keywords": "annotations; backwell; bentley; copy; cowper; hayley; milton; william", "summary": "It further reveals that \u201cthe verse & prose, inserted in that copy \u2026, were not written by our dear Bard, but by yr amiable Father\u201d\u2014\u200bthat is, not written by William Cowper, but by his uncle, the late Ashley Cowper. One, with manuscript \u201cverse & prose\u201d 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\u2019s Turret House in early 1802, according to the previously unpublished letter to Lady Hesketh of 10 January.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-354", "words": "5113", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Erle, Sibylle", "title": "William Blake\u2019s The Ancient Britons: A Book and a Website (Now Vanished) Reviewed", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; book; britons; exhibition; german; kirkup; klopstock; painting; robinson; roob; team; william", "summary": "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 \u201cScience, Technology and the Senses\u201d (2008), Panoramas, 1787\u2013\u200b1900: Texts and Contexts (2012), and \u201cMonsters: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Monstrosity\u201d (2019\u2013\u200b20), and edited \u201cBlake in Europe\u201d (2022).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-357", "words": "1223", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Alexander S. Gourlay", "title": "Construing \u201cHar\u201d: Blake\u2019s Polyglot Roots", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; har; tiriel", "summary": "Snorri\u2019s 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: \u00a0if Blake remembered the god/\u200bking Har when he named the character in\u00a0Tiriel, he must have forgotten what Har was like in the\u00a0Edda. 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-358", "words": "357", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "73", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Morris Eaves, 1944\u20132024", "date": "2024", "keywords": "morris", "summary": "Remembrance Morris Eaves, 1944\u20132024 By Morton D. Paley Like Morris\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-359", "words": "1310", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.", "title": "A List of Morris Eaves\u2019s Publications", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; eaves; press; university; william", "summary": "Allen Ginsberg/\u200bWilliam Blake: \u201cSongs of Innocence and Experience\u201d by William Blake, Tuned by Allen Ginsberg, with Peter Orlovsky, Variously Accompanied [recording] (MGM \u201cVerve,\u201d 1970). William Blake in Context.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-360", "words": "8858", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2023", "date": "2024", "keywords": "apr; auctions; blake; calf; cat; copy; drawing; illus; ink; july; paper; pencil; price; sept; sketch; state; vols; wash; william", "summary": "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\u2019s auctions, London SNY Sotheby\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-361", "words": "202", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "68", "author": "Riordan, John; Jones, Sarah", "title": "The Ancient Britons", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake", "summary": "Introduction Introduction By Sarah Jones The Ancient Britons is not hiding in my attic\u2014\u200bI\u2019ve checked\u2014\u200band it may not be in anyone else\u2019s attic either, which leaves us with Blake\u2019s descriptions, contemporary reactions, and the canvas of our imaginations. Some time ago I wondered how Blake would have handled the painting in the literal sense, as it was very large and must have been unwieldy.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-363", "words": "302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2024", "keywords": "editor; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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\u20132024 By Morton D. Paley A List of Morris Eaves\u2019s 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-364", "words": "4451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Oliveira, Camila; Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Blake and Music, 2023", "date": "2024", "keywords": "amazon; apple; bass; drums; guitar; links; spotify; synthesizers; track; voice; youtube", "summary": "Adlington, Lucy \u2014 UK From Daughters of Albion\u200a; for voice, guitar, bass, and synthesizers. Amora, Roy, Manuel Arcamo, Arnold Cespon, and Jeffrey Malanog \u2014 Unknown The Divine Image\u200a; for voice, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-365", "words": "283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2024", "keywords": "editor; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas, and works in Russian contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Blake and Exhibitions, 2023 By Luisa Cal\u00e8 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-366", "words": "7924", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2023", "date": "2024", "keywords": "america; art; art museum; blake; british; butlin; center; collection; copy; huntington; library; mellon; mellon collection; ofili; paul; plate; tate; william; yale; yale center", "summary": "Although the commentary did not mention Dante Gabriel\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2013\u200b2 June 2024 Tate Britain displayed Blake in dialogue with Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili, who was invited to \u201cselect a number of his own watercolours and sketches that resonate with the works of William Blake.\u201dSee <\ufeffhttps://\u200bwww.\u200btate.\u200borg.\u200buk/\u200bvisit/\u200btate-\u200bbritain/\u200bdisplay/\u200bhistoric-\u200bearly-\u200bmodern-\u200bbritish-\u200bart/\u200bchris-\u200bofili\ufeff>.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-367", "words": "30017", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, H\u00fcseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2023", "date": "2024", "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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "\u201cI propose that Fabien Vehlmann and Kerasco\u00ebt\u2019s 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\u201d (abstract). \u201cIn Conflict with the Mainstream: William Blake Considered as an Outsider Artist.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-368", "words": "2240", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Worrall, David", "title": "Matthew Mauger, William Blake and the Visionary Law: Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution", "date": "2024", "keywords": "antinomian; blake; book; law; mauger; william", "summary": "This modification signals his point of departure from Jon Mee\u2019s Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992), Saree Makdisi\u2019s William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (2003), and G. A. Rosso\u2019s The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake\u2019s Prophetic Symbolism (2016), the leading exponents of tracing antinomian ideologies in Blake. For the reader of William Blake and the Visionary Law, Moskal\u2019s vivid analogy of 1988 may help to grasp the idea that Blake\u2019s impulse toward antinomian radicalism was tempered by the necessity of having laws stable and flexible enough to protect the Human Form Divine.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-369", "words": "1302", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Choe, Sharon", "title": "Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bastard; blake; cooper; geometry", "summary": "Review: Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry Andrew M. Cooper. Her doctoral research examined Blake\u2019s engagement with Old Norse myth and culture in his development of a disabled body politic.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-370", "words": "1546", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Whittaker, Jason", "title": "Matthew Leporati, Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; empire; epic; leporati", "summary": "He is the author and editor of several works on Blake, including\u00a0William Blake and the Myths of Britain\u00a0(Palgrave, 1999),\u00a0Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827\u00a0(with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002),\u00a0Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake\u00a0(Reaktion Books, 2021), and\u00a0Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2022). As he points out in chapter 3, \u201cHeroes of Conquest and Conversion,\u201d many epics were deliberately and openly instructive\u2014\u200bdogmatic, even\u2014\u200bfollowing the model laid down by Archbishop F\u00e9nelon\u2019s Les Aventures de T\u00e9l\u00e9maque (1699).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-371", "words": "14408", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Carter, Sarah", "title": "The Ambiguities of Translation: Fuseli, Blake, and the Making of Aphorisms on Man", "date": "2024", "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", "summary": "it was brought before an English audience through the printmaking skills of William Blake and the agency of Lavater\u2019s childhood friend Henry Fuseli. More recently, Martin Priestman has suggested that Fuseli\u2019s role remained \u201cembryonic\u201d and that \u201ca great deal of the final picture\u2019s detail is purely the work of \u2026 William Blake\u201d (105).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-372", "words": "297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2024", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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 Article The Ambiguities of Translation: Fuseli, Blake, and the Making of Aphorisms on Man By Sarah Carter Reviews Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry Reviewed by Sharon Choe Matthew Leporati, Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire Reviewed by Jason Whittaker Matthew Mauger, William Blake and the Visionary Law: Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution Reviewed by David Worrall 5 8 no. 2 fa l l 2 024 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside A D V I S O R Y B", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-373", "words": "320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; editor; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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 \u201cSymbols of embodied agency\u201d: The Reception of William Blake\u2019s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman\u2019s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture By Caroline Anjali Ritchie \u201cUnentangled in the intricate windings of modern practice\u201d: William Blake\u2019s Apprentice Copperplates and Engravings By Mark Crosby Reviews Brian Russell Graham, Speech Acts in Blake\u2019s \u201cMilton\u201d Reviewed by Annise Rogers William Blake\u2019s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 February\u201319 May 2024 William Blake\u2019s Universe, ed. 58 | no. 3 | winter 2024\u201325 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-374", "words": "8293", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ritchie, Caroline Anjali", "title": "\u201cSymbols of embodied agency\u201d: The Reception of William Blake\u2019s Engravings for John Gabriel Stedman\u2019s Narrative (1796) in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture", "date": "2025", "keywords": "art; artists; black; blake; camp; douglas; engravings; images; johnson; lee; locke; narrative; price; slavery; stedman; violence; william; work", "summary": "In 2007, Mind-Forg\u2019d Manacles: William Blake and Slavery (Ferens Art Gallery, Burrell Collection, and Whitworth Art Gallery, 2007\u2013\u200b08) was held in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade and the 250th anniversary of Blake\u2019s birth. \u201cWilliam Blake Takes On GlaxoSmithKline\u2014\u200bPractical History.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-375", "words": "9017", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "\u201cUnentangled in the intricate windings of modern practice\u201d: William Blake\u2019s Apprentice Copperplates and Engravings", "date": "2025", "keywords": "archiox; blake; bodleian; copperplate; drawings; gough; hatching; libraries; lines; oxford; tombs; university; verso", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-376", "words": "6139", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "William Blake\u2019s Universe, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 February\u201319 May 2024; William Blake\u2019s Universe, ed. David Bindman and Esther Chadwick", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; catalogue; essay; europe; exhibition; fitzwilliam; future; german; jerusalem; museum; plates; present; runge; stedman; universe; wall; william blake; works", "summary": "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\u2019s universe within a European context. The William Blake Exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and St\u00e4del Museum, Frankfurt, 1975,\u201d The Reception of William Blake in Europe, ed.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-378", "words": "1402", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Rogers, Annise", "title": "Brian Russell Graham, Speech Acts in Blake\u2019s \u201cMilton\u201d", "date": "2025", "keywords": "graham; milton; speech", "summary": "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\u2019 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\u2019s introduction to those characters, covering the Fall and the creation of Time and Space\u2014\u200ball of which, as Graham reveals, come about through performative speech acts.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-379", "words": "2777", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Cauchi, Francesca", "title": "Blake\u2019s Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in \u201cHoly Thursday\u201d (Innocence)", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; charity; children; innocence; line; poem; stanza; thursday", "summary": "In other words, the battalion-like \u201ccompanies\u201d of charity children on the left-hand side of the line are juxtaposed to the angelic-like host on the right\u2014\u200ba positioning that recalls Christ\u2019s 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 \u201cwalkd before\u201d their charges are now seated \u201cbeneath\u201d the cherubic children in accordance with the synoptic Gospels: \u201cSuffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God\u201d (Luke 18:16); and the ironic epithet \u201cwise guardians\u201d 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 \u201cdoor\u201d of heaven\u2014\u200bthe door, moreover, that is eternally open to the \u201clittle children.\u201d", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-380", "words": "2212", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "46", "author": "Oliveira, Camila", "title": "Jason Whittaker, Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthem; blake; england; hymn; jerusalem; parry; whittaker", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-381", "words": "107", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Our New Co-Editor", "date": "2025", "keywords": "editor", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-382", "words": "2059", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "51", "author": "Leporati, Matthew", "title": "Jason Whittaker, Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; book; images; whittaker; work", "summary": "Jason Whittaker\u2019s impressive Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake opens with an examination of a deceptively familiar image, one of Blake\u2019s most famous: \u201cThe Ancient of Days.\u201d The Real Life of William Blake (2014), and guides to reading Blake, such as Saree Makdisi\u2019s Reading William Blake (2015) and Kathryn S. Freeman\u2019s A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake (2017).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-383", "words": "1235", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "Saral, Ramazan", "title": "Joshua Schouten de Jel, William Blake\u2019s Divine Love: Visions of Oothoon", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; oothoon", "summary": "Schouten de Jel draws parallels between Michelangelo\u2019s Tityus drawing and Blake\u2019s depiction of Oothoon, especially on plate 6, claiming that \u201csuch a model transposed a \u2018core artistic vocabulary\u2019 which imbues Oothoon\u2019s self-annihilation in Visions with eschatological signification\u201d (95, quoting Edina Adam and Julian Brooks). In this very detailed and well-researched work, Schouten de Jel analyzes Oothoon\u2019s spiritual transformation as an expression of divine love through self-annihilation.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-384", "words": "311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; editor; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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\u2019s Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in \u201cHoly Thursday\u201d (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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-385", "words": "10652", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Crosby, Mark", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2024", "date": "2025", "keywords": "auction; blake; copy; drawings; frontispiece; illus; john; july; left; linnell; mar; new; oct; paper; pencil; plates; songs; vols; william", "summary": "he also owned a copy of Poetical Sketches with the inscription \u201cTo Charles Tulk Esqre / from William Blake\u201d (see William Blake Archive), as well as No Natural Religion copy M and All Religions Are One pl. 1 (BB 82n4; BR[2] 383n). \u201dFor bibliographical information on this pamphlet, see Roger R. Easson and Robert N. Essick, William Blake, Book Illustrator, vol. 1", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-386", "words": "4276", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Rubel, William Ilan", "title": "Timothy Morton, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; ecology; future; haptic; hell; imagination; morton; sense; tyger; wrath", "summary": "Northrop Frye cast Blake as an apocalyptic visionary who, like Jesus, met with trials and consolidated the \u201cwhole body of error in his society into a resolve to destroy him,\u201dNorthrop 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-388", "words": "5716", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "78", "author": "Oliveira, Camila", "title": "Blake and Music, 2024", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bass; drums; guitar; link; note; track; voice; youtube", "summary": "Boynton, Tommy \u2014\u200b USA From Riches\u200a; for voice and guitar. Carollo, John A. \u2014\u200b USA From Awake Humanity to Nature\u2019s Beauty\u200a; for voice, piano, cello, and violin.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-389", "words": "965", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "Memories of David Bindman", "date": "2025", "keywords": "art; blake; blunt; david", "summary": "In 1982\u2013\u200b83 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\u2019s art. While a graduate student at Columbia University in 1959, I had attended Professor Blunt\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-390", "words": "25451", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ripley, Wayne C.; Castanedo, Fernando; Sato, Hikari; Alhas, H\u00fcseyin; Serdechnaia, Vera", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2024", "date": "2025", "keywords": "2024)\ufeff; 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; \ufeffblake", "summary": "\u201cExclusive Interview with Visionary William Blake.\u201d \u201cThis year I\u2019ve tried two ways\u2014\u200bprintmaking and welding\u2014\u200bto get under the dirty, stubborn skin of William Blake.\u201d William Blake Archive Exhibition: Crosby, Mark.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-391", "words": "4015", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake e la sua epoca. Viaggi nel tempo del sogno. La Reggia di Venaria, 31 October 2024\u20132 February 2025; Blake e la sua epoca, ed. Alice Insley", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; book; exhibition; john; room; tate; text; theme; venaria; wall; watercolor; william; works", "summary": "In turn, Blake\u2019s 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 Re\u00f6k Palace, Szeged, Hungary, put Blake\u2019s Comus illustrations, represented by colored lithographs published by Bernard Quaritch in 1890, and Goya\u2019s Caprichos in dialogue with the twentieth-century Hungarian painter, photographer, and writer B\u00e9la Kondor (1931\u2013\u200b72); see \u00c1gnes P\u00e9ter, \u201cThe Reception of Blake in Hungary,\u201d The Reception of William Blake in Europe 2: 568. Instead of chronicling Blake\u2019s 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\u2013\u200b15,Reviewed by Susan Matthews in Blake 50.1 (summer 2016).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-392", "words": "337", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Luisa Cal\u00e8 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 Articles William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2024 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 H\u00fcseyin Alhas, and works in Russian contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Blake and Music, 2024 By Camila Oliveira Review Blake e la sua epoca, La Reggia di Venaria, 31 October 2024\u20132 February 2025 Blake e la sua epoca, ed. BLAKE S U M M E R 2 0 2 5 AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY Vol. 59, no. 1 Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Silvia Riccardi, Ume\u00e5 University 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, 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", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-395", "words": "6584", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Schaffer, Simon", "title": "Blake\u2019s Lawgiver, Newton\u2019s System, Reynolds\u2019s Justice", "date": "2025", "keywords": "balance; blake; figure; flaxman; island; john; joshua; justice; law; lawgiver; london; newton; nicholson; reynolds; steelyard; vol; westminster; william", "summary": "The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-396", "words": "6279", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cal\u00e8, Luisa", "title": "Blake and Exhibitions, 2024", "date": "2025", "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", "summary": "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 \u201cJoseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion\u201d: First state, 1773 Second state, c. 1810\u2013\u200b25 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.391-1985, P.392-1985 Aminadab, Called \u201cThe Reposing Traveller,\u201d after Michelangelo and Adamo Scultori, c. 1785 (Butlin #170 verso) British Museum, 1867,1012.205 The Apotheosis of Bacchus, after d\u2019Hancarville, c. 1779\u2013\u200b85 (Butlin #174) British Museum, 1867,1012.207 Joseph\u2019s Brethren Bowing Down before Him, c. 1784\u2013\u200b85 (Butlin #155) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456A Joseph Ordering Simeon to Be Bound, c. 1784\u2013\u200b85 (Butlin #156) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456B Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren, c. 1784\u2013\u200b85 (Butlin #157) Fitzwilliam Museum, 456C \u201cHomer Invoking the Muse,\u201d after Flaxman, for Flaxman, Iliad, 1805 Fitzwilliam Museum \u201cHead of a Damned Soul,\u201d after Fuseli, c. 1789\u2013\u200b90 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.423-1985 \u201cTornado,\u201d after Fuseli, for Darwin, The Botanic Garden, 1795 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.546-1985 Hyperion (\u201cThe Bowman\u201d\u200a), late 1790s (Butlin #336) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.167-1985 Ugolino and His Sons in Prison, wash drawing, c. 1780\u2013\u200b85 (Butlin #208) Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1980-128 Ugolino and His Sons in Prison, tempera, 1826\u2013\u200b27 (Butlin #805) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.5-1978 Engravings for the Divine Comedy, 1826\u201327: \u201cThe Circle of the Corrupt Officials: The Devils Mauling Each Other\u201d \u201cThe Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca\u201d Fitzwilliam Museum, P.812-R, P.810-R On Homer\u2019s Poetry [and] On Virgil, c. 1822 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.711-1985 \u05d9\u05d4 & his two Sons Satan & Adam (Laoco\u00f6n), c. 1826\u2013\u200b27 Fitzwilliam Museum, P.398-1985 For Rees\u2019s Cyclop\u00e6dia, 1820: \u201cSculpture\u201d (Venus de Medici, Apollo Belvedere, Laoco\u00f6n) \u201cSculpture\u201d (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 Laoco\u00f6n, c. 1825 (Butlin #681) Fitzwilliam Museum, PD.29-2020 The Present: Europe in Flames America, a Prophecy copy O, composed 1793, printed c. 1821:", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-397", "words": "12517", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "60", "author": "Hobson, Christopher Z.", "title": "Who Are Blake\u2019s Eternals?", "date": "2025", "keywords": "beings; blake; death; divine; eternals; eternity; family; human; jerusalem; life; los; milton; mortals; night; poem; urizen; william; world; zoas", "summary": "Blake and the Argument of Method, edited by Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, and Donald Ault, Duke UP, 1987, pp. 111-38. \u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b\u2014\u200b. Narrative Unbound: Re-visioning William Blake\u2019s The Four Zoas. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-398", "words": "298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jones, Sarah", "title": "Cover and table of contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blake; university", "summary": "Rebecca Marks, independent scholar Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Silvia Riccardi, Ume\u00e5 University 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. D\u00f6rrbecker, University of Trier, retired Sibylle Erle, Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia A D V I S O R Y B Luisa Cal\u00e8 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 Articles Who Are Blake\u2019s Eternals?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-77", "words": "1972", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Simpson, Philippa", "title": "Michael Phillips, ed., William Blake (1757\u20131827): Le G\u00e9nie visionnaire du romantisme anglais", "date": "2011", "keywords": "artist; blake; catalogue; phillips; works", "summary": "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\u2019s image-making and his role as a visual artist, not to overturn but to augment the received perception of him as a writer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-78", "words": "1728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Rowland, Christopher", "title": "Magnus Ankarsj\u00f6, William Blake and Religion: A New Critical View", "date": "2011", "keywords": "blake; book; chapter; religion", "summary": "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\u2019s unorthodox belief that slavery caused suffering not only to those enslaved but to their mas- ters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-79", "words": "26260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2010", "date": "2011", "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", "summary": "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 \u00a7William Blake and His Return to Illumination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-80", "words": "6915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Michael, Jennifer Davis", "title": "Eternity in the Moment: William Blake and Mary Oliver", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; body; imagination; life; nature; new; oliver; poem; poetry; press; romney; speaker; thel; world", "summary": "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\u2019s 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 \u201cevery thing that lives is holy.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-81", "words": "2057", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Hazard Adams, Blake\u2019s Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations", "date": "2022", "keywords": "adams; blake; book; death; work", "summary": "Portrait of William Blake,\u201d 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-82", "words": "16661", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Paley, Morton D.", "title": "William Blake, George Romney, and The Life of George Romney, Esq.", "date": "2022", "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", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-83", "words": "4999", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Attribution and Reproduction: Death Pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; butlin; cromek; death; drawing; grave; pencil; watercolors; work", "summary": "no one has questioned the belief (I am tempted to call it a fact) that Blake designed Death Pursuing in response to Cromek\u2019s commission to illustrate The Grave.8 R. H. Cromek\u2019s son, Thomas Hartley Cromek, wrote the following on the back of the mount: Illustration to \u201cUrizen\u201d \u2013 a poem by William Blake \u2013 who also made this drawing\u2013 It belonged to my father. Death Pursuing is also reproduced and discussed in essick and Morton d. paley, Robert Blair\u2019s The Grave Illustrated by William Blake (london: scolar press, 1982) 75-76 and illus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-85", "words": "1673", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Connolly, Tristanne", "title": "Laura Quinney, William Blake on Self and Soul", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; hayley; locke; quinney; self", "summary": "such a judgmental view seems unfair to both Hayley and Blake in light of Mark Crosby\u2019s work,1 and, less recently, the detailed and balanced picture of the relationship in G. e. Bentley, Jr.\u2019s The Stranger from Paradise (2001) where, 1. such as Jon Mee and Mark Crosby, \u201c\u2018This soldierlike Danger\u2019: The Trial of William Blake for sedition,\u201d Resisting Napoleon: reference would be enriching, for instance, to Matthew Green\u2019s Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiri- cism (2005), and, within the bibliography\u2019s time zone, Wayne Glausser\u2019s Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eigh- teenth Century (1998) (which also sees a therapeutic motiva- tion in Blake\u2019s work, and Locke\u2019s).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-86", "words": "3100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hilton, Nelson", "title": "Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck, eds., Editing and Reading Blake", "date": "2022", "keywords": "archive; blake; editing; edition; note; par; readers; text", "summary": "But given that \u201cthe Blake Archive\u2019s primary purpose is for studying Blake rather than reading him\u201d and that its \u201cprimary audience is a scholarly one\u201d (note 8), one senses the predicament concerning audience underlying their disclosure that \u201cuncertainty about the long-term future of the Blake Archive \u2026 motivates our goals and decisions today \u2026\u201d (par. 46). 92 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Winter 2011-12 be the model for any future uses of immersive textuality in approaching Blake\u201d (par. 35).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-87", "words": "2245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Gerald E. Bentley, Jr., William Blake\u2019s Conversations: A Compilation, Concordance, and Rhetorical Analysis", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bentley; blake; conversation; par; readers; words", "summary": "But given that \u201cthe Blake Archive\u2019s primary purpose is for studying Blake rather than reading him\u201d and that its \u201cprimary audience is a scholarly one\u201d (note 8), one senses the predicament concerning audience underlying their disclosure that \u201cuncertainty about the long-term future of the Blake Archive \u2026 motivates our goals and decisions today \u2026\u201d (par. 46). The \u201conly justifica- tion\u201d for such tampering is that \u201cto do so brings us nearer to Blake\u201d (par. 26).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-88", "words": "2558", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hobson, Christopher Z.", "title": "Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, eds., Blake and Conflict", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; blake; conflict; conversation; mee; volume; worrall", "summary": "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\u2019s 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\u2019s own words, the lightheartedly learned tone that prevails should inhibit anyone from taking it all too literally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-89", "words": "2782", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Rothenberg, Molly Anne", "title": "R. Paul Yoder, The Narrative Structure of William Blake\u2019s Poem Jerusalem: A Revisionist Interpretation", "date": "2012", "keywords": "blake; chapter; luca; narrative; plate; poem; yoder", "summary": "Yoder takes his cue from richard Lanham and Julia Wright to articulate the ways in which Blake\u2019s 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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-90", "words": "1434", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Freeman, Kathryn", "title": "James Rovira, Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety", "date": "2012", "keywords": "blake; creation; kierkegaard; rovira", "summary": "More prob- lematic than the claim that the binaries\u2014science vs. religion, nature vs. artifice, and democracy vs. monarchy\u2014exist within texts is Rovira\u2019s assertion that Blake and Kierkegaard repre- sent, if not precisely two polarities, two sides of the study\u2019s central binary, \u201ccreation and anxiety\u201d: \u201cBlake\u2019s mythology rep- resents the \u2018creation\u2019 and Kierkegaard\u2019s philosophy the \u2018anxi- ety\u2019 of creation anxiety\u201d (2). Just as this synthesis of history and subjectivity offers a rethinking of Blake and of Kierkegaard, Rovira\u2019s revision of Derridean deconstruction from the hindsight of new histori- cism challenges the assumption of mutual exclusion between the two theoretical positions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-91", "words": "640", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Silverstein, Mary", "title": "Mickle Maher, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is (Theater Oobleck, Chicago, 2011)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "audience; blake; william", "summary": "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.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-92", "words": "14084", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Whitehead, Angus", "title": "\u201can excellent saleswoman\u201d: The Last Years of Catherine Blake", "date": "2022", "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", "summary": "\u201cAn alternative date for the gift is 1827-31, when catherine Blake was living as a widow with c. h. tatham\u2019s son Frederick\u201d (BR[2] 398fn); \u201cIt seems improbable \u2026 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\u2019s death on 12 August 1827 and her own death on 18 october 1831\u201d (robert N. essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue [princeton: princeton University press, 1983] 189). 85. See Angus Whitehead, \u201c\u2018I also beg Mr Blakes acceptance of my wearing apparel\u2019: The Will of henry Banes, landlord of 3 Fountain court, Strand, the last residence of William and catherine Blake,\u201d Blake 39.2 (fall 2005): 86-89. 27.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-93", "words": "28848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Essick, Robert N.", "title": "Blake in the Marketplace, 2011", "date": "2022", "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", "summary": "Meiwes, Jan. online cat., foxed, some pls. Meiwes, Jan. online cat., foxed and water stained, most pls.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-94", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Whitehead, Angus", "title": "\u201cMr CLAY of Hercules Buildings\u201d", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blake; buildings; clay; hercules", "summary": "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 \u201cthe autumn of 1790\u201d or at least \u201cbefore the end of 1790.\u201d3", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-95", "words": "545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Miner, Paul", "title": "denouement", "date": "2022", "keywords": "buildings; hercules", "summary": "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 \u201cMr CLAY of Hercules Buildings\u201d can be identified as the Blakes\u2019 predecessor as ratepayer and resident at 13 Hercules Buildings, William Clay.5", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "blake-97", "words": "1913", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "49", "author": "Scott, Grant F.", "title": "Sarah Haggarty, Blake\u2019s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange", "date": "2012", "keywords": "blake; book; gift; haggarty; inspiration", "summary": "The final chapter, \u201cSalvation,\u201d investigates Blake\u2019s unorthodox representation of Christ\u2019s \u201csaving gift\u201d (157), his sacrifice of himself for Albion in Jerusalem.\u00a0 As such the primary texts are Blake\u2019s letters, annotations, and Descriptive Catalogue.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-98", "words": "1938", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gourlay, Alexander S.", "title": "Robert N. Essick, ed., William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience", "date": "2012", "keywords": "blake; copy; edition; essick", "summary": "The recto/verso printing of the pages Blake had at hand when he assembled copy E entailed some further compromises on his part\u2014\u201cLaughing Song\u201d appears in both Innocence and Experience, and the \u201cNurses Song\u201d 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\u2019s 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).", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}, {"id": "blake-99", "words": "31371", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "74", "author": "Bentley, Jr., G. E.", "title": "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2011", "date": "2012", "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", "summary": "\u00a7William Blake: \u00c9crits proph\u00e9tiques des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es 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.", "mime": "application/xhtml+xml"}]