B L A K E
AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY

For Morris

VOLUME 57        NUMBER 4

SPRING 2024



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 Morton D. Paley
Cover:  Adapted from Blake’s illustration to Night Thoughts, Night II, page 36. © Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. 

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editor: Morton D. Paley
co-editor, 1970–2024: Morris Eaves
book review editor: Sibylle Erle
exhibitions editor: Luisa Calè
bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley

bibliographers (music): Camila Oliveira, Jason Whittaker 
sales review editor: Mark Crosby
managing editor: Sarah Jones   sarah.jones@rochester.edu 
production office: Department of English, University of 
Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451

Remembrance

Morris Eaves, 1944–2024
By Morton D. Paley

A List of Morris Eaves’s Publications
Compiled by Wayne C. Ripley

Article

Blake in the Marketplace, 2023 
By Mark Crosby

Review

Seen through the Visions of Young and Old Germans
William Blake’s The Ancient Britons: A Book and a Website 
(Now Vanished) Reviewed 
By Sibylle Erle

Minute Particular

Construing “Har”: Blake’s Polyglot Roots
By Alexander S. Gourlay

Cartoon

The Ancient Britons
Artwork by John Riordan; introduction by Sarah Jones