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| ARTICLE | |
| The Secret Masonic History of Blake’s Swedenborg Society by Marsha Keith Schuchard | |
| MINUTE PARTICULAR | |
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Blake and the Edinburgh Evening
Post David Groves |
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| REVIEWS | |
| Vincent Arthur De Luca, Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime, reviewed by Stephen Cox | |
| William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. Andrew Lincoln, reviewed by Irene Tayler | |
| “An Unperishing Sun . . . This Golden Age”: Joachimism and Heaven in the Age of Blake; Marjorie Reeves and Warwick Gould, Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century and Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, Heaven: A History, reviewed by Joseph Wittreich | |
| Ed. Hazard Adams, Critical Essays on William Blake, reviewed by Jeffrey D. Parker | |
| William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, ed. Morton D. Paley, reviewed by Terence Allan Hoagwood | |
| NEWSLETTER | |
| William Blake: Innocence and Experience; Blake’s Creative Process |
Cover illustration courtesy of the Library Museum of the United Grand Lodge of England.
© 1992 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley
CONTRIBUTORS
STEPHEN COX, Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of “The Stranger Within Thee”: Concepts of the Self in Late-Eighteenth-Century Literature, and of Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake’s Thought (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, 1992).
DAVID GROVES is an Instructor at the University of Saskatchewan.
TERENCE ALLAN HOAGWOOD, Professor of English at Texas A&M and currently Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, is the author and editor of several books on romanticism, including Byron’s Dialectic, which is forthcoming in 1993.
JEFFREY D. PARKER, Assistant Professor of British romanticism at North Carolina ANT State University, has published a few articles on Blake and is currently working on a book on Blake’s commercial designs.
MARSHA KEITH SCHUCHARD finds that her medical studies on the history and neurobiology of psychoactive drugs shed much light on the meditation techniques and visionary art of eighteenth-century Illuminés. She is currently completing a Masonic biography of Emanuel Swedenborg.
IRENE TAYLER, Professor of Literature at M.I.T., is author of Blake’s Illustrations to the Poems of Gray, as well as essays on the other male romantics and the place of “woman” and women in romanticism. Her most recent book is Holy Ghosts: The Male Muses of Emily and Charlotte Brontë (Columbia, 1990).
JOSEPH WITTREICH is Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He is currently at work on Wars of Truths: Milton and the New Criticisms.
EDITORS
Editors: Morris Eaves, University of Rochester, and Morton D. Paley, University of California, Berkeley.
Bibliographer: Detlef W. Dörrbecker, Universität Trier, West Germany.
Review Editor: Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia, Athens.
Associate Editor for Great Britain: David Worrall, St. Mary’s College.
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Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Detlef W. Dörrbecker, Universität Trier, FB III Kunstgeschichte, Postfach 3825, 5500 Trier, West Germany.
Nelson Hilton, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
David Worrall, St. Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX, England.
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