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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. Dörrbecker, University of Trier
Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University
Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside

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www.blakequarterly.org

Articles

Blake in the Marketplace, 2020
By Robert N. Essick

Diagrammatic Blake: Tracing the Critical Reception of 
“The Mental Traveller”
By Caroline Anjali Ritchie

© 2021  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Design based on page 5 of the Pickering Manuscript, lines from “The Mental Traveller.” Morgan Library & Museum. MA 2879. 

Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1971. Image courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

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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