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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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A N  I L L U S T R A T E D  Q U A R T E R L Y

VOLUME 55 NUMBER 2  FALL 2021

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www.blakequarterly.org

Remembrance

“All his neighbourhood bewail his loss”: Bo Ossian Lindberg, 
1937–2021
By Morton D. Paley

Articles

The Body in the Line: “Trasumanar” in Blake’s Dante
By Silvia Riccardi

Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection”
By Christopher Z. Hobson

Reviews

Sheila A. Spector, The Evolution of Blake’s Myth
Reviewed by R. Paul Yoder

Susan Mitchell Sommers, The Siblys of London: A Family on 
the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England
Reviewed by Wayne C. Ripley

© 2021  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Blake, Dante Adoring Christ. Watercolor, 1824–27. 52.7 × 37.2 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 

1920. 1020-3. Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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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