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fall 2023



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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© 2023  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Blake, Angel of the Revelation (also known as “And the angel which I saw lifted up his hand to Heaven” ) (c. 1805). Watercolor, 

39.4 x 26.3 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogers Fund, 1914. 14.81.1.

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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

Interview

A Conversation with Helen Bruder
Elizabeth Effinger and Helen P. Bruder

Articles

William Blake’s Annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost : 
New Evidence for Attribution
By Lisa Sherlock

Redefining Apocalypse in Blake Studies
By G. A. Rosso

William Blake’s “Introduction” to Songs of Innocence : 
The Role of the Pipe
By Ian Thomson