Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia
Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College
Robert W. Rix,  University of Copenhagen
Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University

Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired
Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo
Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier
Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University
Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside

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VOLUME 54 NUMBER 3  WINTER 2020–21

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www.blakequarterly.org

Remembrance

John E. Grant, 1925–2020
By Alexander S. Gourlay

Articles

Violence, Death, and Autoeroticism: The Alternative 
Self-Annihilation in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
By Kang-Po Chen

“If you want to learn the secrets, close your eyes”: Bruce 
Dickinson’s “Gates of Urizen” as Contrary Version of 
The [First] Book of Urizen
By Katharina Hagen

Minute Particular

“Remarkable both for Genius, & Extravagance”: Amelia Opie 
and Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job
By Shelley King and John B. Pierce

© 2021  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Design based on Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), copy J. 
 Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Rosenwald no. 1803. Images courtesy of the William Blake Archive. 

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editors: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
review editor: Alexander S. Gourlay
exhibitions editor: Luisa Calè
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