BLAKE S U M M E R 2 0 2 5 AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY Vol. 59, no. 1 Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Josephine A. McQuail, independent scholar Silvia Riccardi, Umeå University 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, retired Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto A D V I S O R Y B O A R D A N I L L U S T R A T E D Q U A R T E R L Y VOLUME 59 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2025 C O N T E N T S www.blakequarterly.org © 2025 Copyright Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Cover: (top) Detail of The Virgin and Child. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.91. Image courtesy of the William Blake Archive ; (bottom) Detail of The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8999. Cover design by Sonia Irakoze. E D I T O R S editors: Morton D. Paley, Tilar J. Mazzeo editor, 1970–2024: Morris Eaves book review editor: Sibylle Erle exhibitions editor: Luisa Calè bibliographer (criticism): Wayne C. Ripley bibliographer (music): Camila Oliveira 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 Articles William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2024 By Wayne C. Ripley, with works in Romance languages contributed by Fernando Castanedo, works in Japanese contributed by Hikari Sato, works in Turkish contributed by Hüseyin Alhas, and works in Russian contributed by Vera Serdechnaia Blake and Music, 2024 By Camila Oliveira Review Blake e la sua epoca, La Reggia di Venaria, 31 October 2024–2 February 2025 Blake e la sua epoca, ed. Alice Insley Reviewed by Luisa Calè