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So it was that the general and specialist reader wishing some sense of the larger pattern of Blake’s life turned first to Gilchrist (as revised and annotated by Todd), to Wilson, to Mason, or most recently to Peter Ackroyd for a narrative of Blake’s life (Bentley’s appendix 1 details 37 “principal biographies of Blake”).

Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Myths of Britain (1999), discusses Blake in general, with a leitmotif of contemporary antiquarianism; he has little that was not in previous books on the subject such as Denis Saurat, Blake and Modern Thought (1929), Ruthven Todd, Tracks in the Snow (1946), and especially A.

Newberry, G. S. Hellman, and R. Todd.] Mathews, Lawrence McKay. “Stems of Generation: The Figure of the Victim in the Poetry of William Blake.” (...) Der Kreis, Zeitschrift für künstlerische Kultur, 4 (1927), 449-455. Todd, Ruthven. “A Tentative Note on the Economics of The Canterbury Pilgrims.”

Symons, Julian. “Ruthven Todd 1914-1978: Some Details for a Portrait.” London Magazine, n.s., 19 (1979), 62-80. [Todd’s work on Blake is mentioned on pp. 69, 77, 79.]

The connections between Malden and druidism seem worth exploring. 1 Ruthven Todd, “William Blake and the Eighteenth-Century Mythologists,” in Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (London: Grey Walls Press, 1946); Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton NJ: Princeton UP, 1947) 129-32, 397-99; David V.

.’, though it seems highly unlikely that the original engraver made this new plate. 15 W. B. Todd, A Directory of Printers . . . 1800-1840 (1972). 16 The North American National Union Catalog lists a similar copy in the Library of Congress. (...) Hong Kong], n.d. [?1947]. Ruthven Todd, ‘Aspects of the Life and Work of William Blake’ (6 unnumbered pages).

Burlington Magazine, 115 (1973), 669-672. Todd, Ruthven. “The Identity of ‘Hereford’ in Jerusalem with Observations on Welsh Matters.”

., Blake Books (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977; hereafter cited as BB) 30. 2 Though Gilchrist knew from Blake’s letter to Flaxman of September 1800 that he had a sister, he referred to her only as “Miss Blake” (Life of William Blake ed. Ruthven Todd [London: Everyman, 1945; hereafter cited as LWB] 357-58). 3 G.

Seligmann, who probably acquired the prints from Ruthven Todd. One impression is in the third state on laid India paper, the wove backing sheet measuring 30 × 22.2 cm.