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VOLUME 57  NUMBER 3 WINTER 2023–24



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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© 2024  Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Blake, “When the Morning Stars Sang Together.” Collection of Robert N. Essick; image courtesy of the William Blake Archive.  

Philipp Otto Runge, “Night” (“Die Nacht”). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, 2007. 2007.131.

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editors: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
book review editor: Sibylle Erle
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

News

Book Review Editor
By Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley

Article

Blake’s Hervey, Thomas Butts, and Methodism
By Dennis M. Read

Interview

William Blake’s Universe: An Interview with David Bindman 
and Esther Chadwick 
By Luisa Calè

Discussion

A Copy of Richard Bentley’s Edition of Paradise Lost in 
William Hayley’s Library c. 1802
By Mark Crosby