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Work in Progress
Michael Davis: a 70,000-word life of william Blake for the general reader, to be published by Sphere (Cardinal series), and to include among its many illustrations a number of works by artists other than Blake.
Donna Rix: a study of the narrative structure of Blake’s Milton with reference to a literary form common to the prophetic books of the Old Testament and the Apocalypse of St. John; Blake inverts and transforms many of the symbols, themes, and motifs of the Biblical prophetic tradition in Milton; a Ph.D. dissertation directed by Morris Eaves at the University of New Mexico.
Gurbhagat Singh: Meditations on William Blake: An Experiential Approach to His Poetry, a study of Blake’s poetry using comparative criticism (Eastern and Western) in an attempt to close the gap between critical theory and response; a Ph.D. dissertation completed for History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, June 1974.