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Further Damoniana Alvin Rosenfeld, Foster Damon |
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| Miscellaneous News | |
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1. Two Problems in The Four Zoas
(continued) W. H. Stevenson |
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2. Blake’s Terrible Ease! David V. Erdman |
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3. Some Analogues or Sources Michael J. Tolley |
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1. An Early, Hand-made Facsimile of the Songs
of Innocence and of Experience John Howell |
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2. A Projected New Edition of the Gilchrist-Todd
Life of Blake Ruthven Todd |
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Discussion “With intellectual spears, & long winged arrows of thought” |
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On the Newly Rediscovered Blake Letter David V. Erdman |
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