Blake
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ILLUSTRATED
QUARTERLY

volume 56, number 3

winter 2022–23



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

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

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Articles

The Notebook, Laocoön, and Blake’s Beauties of Inflection
By Matthew Martello

Blake, Lucretius, and Prophecy: The Book of Los
By Andrew Lincoln

Review

Lucy Cogan, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy
Reviewed by G. A. Rosso

© 2023  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  The Notebook of William Blake.  Add MS 49460, f.47r.  Image courtesy of the William Blake Archive, © British Library Board.

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editors: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
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