Volume 45 · Issue 1

Blake Publications and Discoveries in 2010

Voting
William Blake’s father, James, voted in 1774, 1780, and 1784, his brother John voted in 1784 and 1788, and his partner, James Parker, voted in 1788 and 1790 [1] but apparently “the poet himself never voted,” [2] though he was eligible to do so. This negative evidence has been used to reinforce the argument that Blake was aloof from practical politics, despite the fiery political strain in his writings and drawings. However, Blake did vote, in 1790. [3] Perhaps his political activism should be reappraised.

Thomas Owen
Thomas Owen, the boy whom Blake took as an apprentice in June 1788, [4] was probably born in 1775. His possible work under Blake’s direction on the plates for Salzmann’s Elements of Morality (1790-91) is examined by Robert N. Essick (see Salzmann in Part III).

The non-English languages recorded for Blake studies in 2010 are Croatian, Danish, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, note the number of works published abroad in English: in Denmark, Germany, India, and Japan.

Reprints
There is a flourishing industry of republishing works related to Blake whose chief virtue is that they are (deservedly) out of print. The chief practitioners seem to be Kessinger Publishing, Nabu Press, and General Books. [8] Note that the Kessinger editions are mere digital reprints, with, as they admit, frequent defects. I have seen none of these reprints and confess my initial incredulity about some, such as the four separate publications of 18-44 pages into which Emily Hamblen’s On the Minor Prophecies of William Blake (1930) has been divided. However, as each has an ISBN assigned, I take it that they were not only advertised but published.

Blake’s Writings

The most exciting discovery was the copy of The Mystical Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus, translated by Thomas Taylor (1787), with annotations newly identified as Blake’s by Philip and Joseph Cardinale. [9] This provides a short but fascinating marginalium by Blake and extensive markings of the text, chiefly underlining. The learned and tendentious Platonist Thomas Taylor has been fairly reliably associated with Blake in anecdotes [10] and more speculatively as a major source for his ideas. [11] The discovery of Blake’s annotations to the Hymns of Orpheus, the only direct evidence that he had read Taylor, will justify a new investigation of the association and connection of Taylor and Blake.

Blake’s long-lost letter of 7 August 1804, known previously only through catalogue snippets, was acquired in 2009 by Robert N. Essick and masterfully published in full in 2010 by Mark Crosby and Essick in Blake. It is an important letter, and the essay about it records a number of significant discoveries related only rather distantly to the text.

The perennial popularity of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is demonstrated by newly recorded editions of 1988 (in Macedonian), 2009 (in Spanish), and 2010. And Blake’s reviving reputation in the years before Gilchrist’s epoch-marking biography is indicated by newly recorded printings of poems in 1839, 1845, 1861, and 1862.

Blake’s Art/Commercial Engravings

One of Blake’s largest paintings, an inn sign made in 1812 for Chaucer’s Tabard or Talbot Inn in Southwark, was for the first time identified and reproduced in 2010. [12] Alas, under outdoor exposure for two-thirds of a century the picture deteriorated so extensively that at the end of its lifetime its features were virtually indistinguishable, and when the building ceased to be an inn the sign was probably abandoned. The inn sign, as recorded in contemporary engravings, is disconcertingly different from Blake’s familiar heroic art, and most Blake students are likely to be made uneasy by it if not incredulous of its connection with Blake.

Beginning about 1800, Blake made a number of miniatures for Hayley and his friends, but some have been lost. [13] Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick identified for the first time prints of Blake’s lost miniatures of Romney in the European Magazine (1803) and Hayley’s Life of Romney (1809). [14] The evidence is so plain that it is difficult to understand why they were not identified long ago. This increases by a third the number of Blake’s miniatures which have been reproduced.

Catalogues and Bibliographies

Newly recorded here are dealers’ catalogues of 1843, 1864, 1878, 1879, and 1883 (2), which help to establish the provenances of numbers of Blake’s works.

There were modest exhibitions in 2010 of Blake’s works at the E. J. Pratt Library of Victoria University in the University of Toronto and at the Morgan Library and Museum. The Morgan’s formidable publicity machine secured numerous reviews and notices.

Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies

Two of the workhorses of Blake scholarship are worthily represented here in Robert N. Essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2009,” and G. E. Bentley, Jr., “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2009” (see Blake 43.4 and 44.1 in Part VI).

A surprising number of papers on Blake were published in collections of essays: in Blake; Queer Blake, ed. Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly; Interfaces; Blake in Our Time, ed. Karen Mulhallen; Romanticism and Its Legacies, ed. Ralla Guha Niyogi; Editing and Reading Blake, ed. Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck; and Tate Papers.

Among the more permanently valuable of these essays are Angus Whitehead’s “Mark and Eleanor Martin, the Blakes’ French Fellow Inhabitants at 17 South Molton Street, 1805-21” (see Blake 43.3 in Part VI) and his “‘Went to see Blake—also to Surgeons college’: Blake and George Cumberland’s Pocketbooks” (see Blake in Our Time, under Mulhallen in Part VI). Whitehead is making wonderful discoveries about Blake’s biographical context.

Two other essays in Blake in Our Time are particularly valuable. In 1983, Joseph Viscomi and Thomas V. Lange first reported that two prints in America (B) were not Blake’s originals but imitations [15] so skillful that they had been taken as genuine by generations of Blake scholars. In his festschrift essay, “Two Fake Blakes Revisited; One Dew-Smith Revealed,” Viscomi demonstrates with his customary brilliance that the inserted plates are photolithographic facsimiles (not fakes) made between 1874 and 1878 by A. G. Dew-Smith (1848-1903) to perfect his copy. This is a fascinating conclusion to a bizarre story. In “William Blake and Chichester,” Morton Paley, following Thomas Wright (1929), argues plausibly that “the foundations of his [Blake’s] four-gated city [of Golgonooza] lay in Chichester.”

Red Herring

According to a “Thought du jour” in the Globe and Mail [Toronto] 13 Jan. 2010: L6, “‘There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.’—William Blake.” This phrase is not used in Blake’s writings or conversations, and I do not know why it should be foisted on Blake.

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The annual checklist of scholarship and discoveries concerning William Blake and his circle records publications and discoveries for the current year (say, 2010) and those for previous years which are not recorded in Blake Books, Blake Books Supplement, and “William Blake and His Circle.” Installments of “William Blake and His Circle” are continuations of Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement, with similar principles and conventions.

Many of the entries below come from searches in December 2010 for “William Blake” and “2009-2010” in Google (7,470 works), Google Books, Copac (99 works), and WorldCat (684 works).

I have made no systematic attempt to record audio books [16] and magazines, blogs, [17] broadcasts on radio and television, calendars, [18] CD-ROMs, chinaware, coffee mugs, [19] comic books, computer printouts (unpublished), conferences, e-mails, festivals and lecture series, furniture, jewelry, [20] lectures on audiocassettes, lipstick, manuscripts, microforms, mosaics, movies, murals, music, notebooks (blank), pageants, performances, pillows, playing cards, podcasts, [21] poems about Blake, portraits, postcards, posters and pictures, [22] recorded readings and singings, [23] refrigerator magnets, stained-glass windows, stamps (postage and rubber), stickers, sweatshirts, T-shirts, [24] tattoos, tiles, typescripts (unpublished), video recordings, and web sites.

I take Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement, faute de mieux, to be the standard bibliographical books on Blake, [25] and have noted significant differences from them.

The organization of Division I of the checklist is as in Blake Books:

Division II: Blake’s Circle [26]

This division is organized by individual (say, William Hayley or John Flaxman), with works by and about Blake’s friends and patrons, living individuals with whom he had significant direct and demonstrable contact. It does not include important contemporaries with whom Blake’s contact was negligible or nonexistent, such as John Constable and William Wordsworth and Edmund Burke.

Reviews, listed here under the book reviewed, are only for works which are chiefly about Blake, not for those with only, say, a chapter on Blake. Note that Blake Books and Blake Books Supplement normally do not include reviews.

Research for this checklist was carried out particularly in the libraries of the University of Toronto and Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Google Books, WorldCat, and Copac, and, for works published in Japan, CiNii (National Institute of Informatics Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator), the National Diet Library online catalogue, Komaba Library and the General Library of the University of Tokyo, and the National Diet Library.

I should be most grateful to anyone who can help me to better information about the unseen (§) items reported here, and I undertake to thank them prettily in person and in print.

For many kinds of favors I thank Noriaki Abe (Subun-So Book Store, Tokyo), Sandra Burgess (collections manager, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center), Professor Robert N. Essick, [27] Professor Alexander Gourlay, Sandra Ho (media relations manager, Morgan Library), Mary Lynn Johnson (for funky Blake jewelry), Sarah Jones (for superb fact-checking and editing), Stephen Massil, Dr. Jeffrey Barclay Mertz, Professor Morton Paley, Ivana Bancevic Pejovic (for a surprising number of works in Serbian), and Tom Simpson (rare book cataloguer, E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria University in the University of Toronto).

Symbols

Abbreviations

Works in Japanese

In books printed in the traditional Japanese format, the Japanese characters are printed in vertical columns, the columns are read from top to bottom and from the righthand column to those on the left. The pages are numbered from the righthand end of the book. Text in European characters in such books is of course printed and read horizontally from left to right, but the pagination, following the Japanese format, seems to be backward (see Kobayashi in Part VI).

Works in Serbian

Note that the poet’s names are given variously (e.g., Blejk, Blejka, Blejku, Blejkova, Blejkovom) because of the seven different cases in Serbian.

Division I: William Blake

Part I: Blake’s Writings

Section A: Original Editions, Facsimiles, Reprints, and Translations

Table of Collections

Addenda

Table of Watermarks

Addenda

JW

America (1793)

Copy R
History: “Almost certainly” [30] this is the copy of Edward Vernon Utterson with 18 pls. “printed in tints” (like America [R] in blue and green) in the Sotheby sale of 5 July 1852, lot 251 [sold for £2.7.0 (?to James Holmes)]; Quaritch offered it in Oct. 1883 for £36 (see Part IV) and in his General Catalogue (1886), lot 29489 (printed in blue, bound in half morocco, gilt edges), for £42.

The Book of Thel (1789)

A Descriptive Catalogue (1809)

Europe (1794)

Edition

The First Book of Urizen (1794)

Edition

For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793)

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (?1826)

An Island in the Moon (?1784)

Edition

Jerusalem (1804[-20])

Edition

“Joseph of Arimathea among the Rocks of Albion” (1773)

Letters

Table

1800 12 September
History: Acquired by 1885 by B. B. Macgeorge. [33]

1800 26 November
History: Letters of 26 Nov. 1800, 26 Oct. 1803, 4, 28 May, 9 Aug., 23 Oct., 18 Dec. 1804, 22 Jan., 17 May, 4 June 1805 were offered by Quaritch in 1879 for £52.10.0 (see Part IV).

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (?1790)

Copy D
It was reproduced in black and white in 2010.

Copy M
It was reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition at Victoria University, University of Toronto (see under 2010 in Part IV).

Editions

In “Very Important New Books” (added to works published by John Camden Hotten, 1868 ff.) is an advertisement for “Original Edition of Blake’s Works.”

NOTICE.—Mr. Hotten has in preparation a few facsimile copies (exact as to paper, printing—the water-colour drawings being filled in by an artist) of the Original Editions of the Books written and Illustrated by William Blake. As it is only intended to produce—with utmost care—a few examples of each work, Mr. Hotten will be glad to hear from any gentleman who may desire to secure copies of these wonderful books. The first volume, “Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” 4to, is now being issued, price 30s., half morocco. [quotation from Charles Lamb]

In Quaritch’s New Catalogue of Miscellaneous Works (1876), lot [16078], the [Camden Hotten] facsimile is dated “(1871) Only 100 copies of this facsimile were printed, and of these only 25 copies were coloured.”

Review

“Le mariage du ciel et de l’enfer.” Trans. André Gide. La nouvelle revue française ns no. 107 (1 Aug. 1922): 129-47. B. Le mariage du ciel et de l’enfer. Paris, [34] 1922. C. Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. [35] <BB #111A-C>

§Himlens och helvetets äktenskap. Trans. Johan Hammarström. Umeå: h:ström, 2000. ISBN: 918944700X. In Swedish.

§*The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Text and Facsimiles). N.p.: Benediction Books, 2010. 60 pp.; ISBN: 9781849026864.

A murky black-and-white reproduction of copy D with facing transcriptions and no other added text besides the 2010 title page.

*The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy B. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. <http://www.blakearchive.org>.

*The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy E. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. <http://www.blakearchive.org>.

Milton (1804[-11])

Editions

*Milton, copy D. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. <http://www.blakearchive.org>.

“The Order in which the Songs of Innocence and Experience ought to be paged” (?after 1818)

“Pickering [Ballads] Manuscript” (?after 1807)

Edition

Poetical Sketches (1783)

Facsimile Pages <see BB p. 345>

The clearest type differences between the original and the type-facsimile are the omission of the catchword (“THE” for “THE | COUCH OF DEATH”) at the foot of p. 59 and the misprint “honſte-ſeeming” for “honeſt-ſeeming” on p. 65 (“Samson”) of the facsimile.

In the facsimile leaves is a watermark “MICHALLET” (not present in copy K), and the vertical chain lines are 2.8 cm. apart, as in the original paper. However, the chain lines are much fainter in the facsimile than in the original, and the facsimile paper seems to be a trifle thicker. In copy K, the same thicker paper is used for the blank leaves adjacent to the text.

Copy Q
History: Perhaps this is the copy sold at Sotheby’s on 21 Feb. 1843, lot 336, to the dealer Rodd (see Part IV).

Edition

Review

Songs of Innocence (1789)

Editions

§Songs of Innocence. [Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 86 pp.; ISBN: 9781176997844.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794[-1831])

Copy U
History: Offered by Quaritch in Oct. 1883 for £170 (see Part IV).

Pls. 2 (frontispiece to Innocence) and 4 (“Introduction” to Innocence)
Description: Three drawings on 3 leaves: “Original Designs” for Songs pls. 2 and 4, plus “An ideal Hell” (Butlin #217) (see Quaritch’s catalogue of 1879, lot 12894, in Part IV). No other drawing for Songs of Innocence is known, and “An ideal Hell” has not been further identified.
History: “From the Collection of a friend of Blake’s”; offered at £10 in Quaritch catalogues no. 322 (Mar. 1879) (see Part IV), lot 12894; (1880), lot 12894; no. 346 (15 Nov. 1882), lot 12894; (Oct. 1883) (see Part IV), lot 10249; (1887), lot 10249; untraced.

Editions

Includes “A Cradle Song” from Blake’s Notebook.

§Pesni na nevinosta i na iskustvoto: što pokažuvaat dve sprotivni sostojbi na čovečkata duša. Trans. Ivan Džeparosci. Skopje: Misla, 1988. 21 cm., 120 pp.; ISBN: 8615000085. In Macedonian.

§*Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. “First published 1789 [sic],” “Republished 2008 by Forgotten Books” <http://www.forgottenbooks.org>, “original title page” is unrelated to the one reproduced here.

§Canciones de inocencia y de experiencia. Trans. Nicolás Suescún. Caracas: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura, Fundación Editorial el perro y la rana, 2009. Colección Poesía del Mundo, Serie Clásicos. 21 cm., 141 pp.; ISBN: 9789801405368. In Spanish.

§Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 43 pp.; ISBN: 9781161453386.

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)

Copy G
For the binding and history, see Thel (J), above.

Editions

*Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy I. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2010. <http://www.blakearchive.org>.

Section B: Collections and Selections

Blake’s Works Reprinted in Conventional Typography before 1863

Addenda

1839

1845

1861

1862

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§Blake. Trans. Miha Avanzo. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1978. 21 cm., 113 pp. In Slovenian.

*Blake’s Poetry and Designs. Ed. Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant. 1979, 2008. <BBS pp. 149-50, Blake (2008)>

Review

§*Chants d’Innocence; Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer; Chants d’Expérience. Trans. Bernard Pautrat. Paris: Rivages, 2010. Rivages Poche/Petite Bibliothèque no. 676. 224 pp.; ISBN: 9782743620790. In French.

“The Edition of the Works of Wm. Blake” by “The Blake Press at Edmonton” (1884-90) <BB #249>

A unique, very Blakean watercolor “Title Page by W^m Muir” was commissioned and paid for (£1.5.0, June 1889), presumably by “HENRY MARTIN GIBBS | of Barrow Court Flax Bourton | Co. Somerset”, whose bookplate appears in the volume, to accompany Muir’s facsimiles of Innocence, Experience, Visions, Thel, Marriage, Milton, There is No Natural Religion, Gates of Paradise, and Urizen, bound by Zaehnsdorf (1890, £7.10.0). [39] It omits America, Europe, The Song of Los, On Homer, and “Little Tom.”

1. A watercolor title page by William Muir … [+]

Europe A Prophecy. Facsimilied by W. Muir …. 1887. <BB #249k¹)

Review

The First Book of Urizen [B]. Facsimilied by Wm. Muir …. 1888. <BB #249l>

Review

§*Eldfängd glädje. Trans. Jonas Ellerström. Lund: Bakhåll, 2007. 22 cm., 78 pp.; ISBN: 9789177422709. In Swedish.

§*The Fly: Poem. Ed. Yuri M. Skovorodnikov. N.p.: Skovorodnikov Books, 1997. 13 cm., 18 pp.; no ISBN.

§The Four Zoas. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 38 pp. [sic]; ISBN: 9781169191105.

§Helvedets Proverber [Proverbs of Hell]. Copenhagen, 1950. 26 pp. In Danish.

“Holy Thursday” (Innocence). [Jane and Ann Taylor]. City Scenes. 1818, 1823, 1828 …. <BB #260,BBS pp. 156-57>

The anonymous print in 1818 and 1823 (image 7.3 x 5.5 cm.), described in BB merely as “crude,” differs from that in 1828 (image 7.1 x 4.4 cm.); in 1818, 1823 the girls follow the boys, while in 1828 the boys follow the girls. [40]

§Infant Joy and The Blossom. N.p.: Cherub Press, 1981. Miniature book 5.2 x 6 cm., 4 pp., 240 copies. [41]

§Innocenza e crudeltà: Liriche. Trans. Angelo Zanon Dal Bo. Milan: Edizioni Accademia, 1976. 21 cm., 306 pp. In Italian.

§Izabrana dela [Selected Works]. Trans. Dragan Purešić. Belgrade: Plato, 2007. In Serbian.

§Izabrana poezija i proza [Selected Poetry and Prose]. Trans. Dragan Purešić. Belgrade: Itaka, 1998. 21 cm., 119 pp.; ISBN: 8681635158. In Serbian.

§Izabrane pesme [Selected Poems]. Trans. Vesna Egerić. Vrbas: Slovo, 1997. 17 cm., 110 pp. In Serbian.

§A Memorable Fancy: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / Une Vision Mémorable: Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer. [Trans. Marie-Christine Natta, illus. José San Martin, Christine Tacq]. Thame: p’s & q’s Press, 2007. 28 x 21 cm., 24 pp., 60 copies; no ISBN. In English and French.

§*Poeme şi gravuri: Poems and Gravas [sic]. Ed. Cicerone Theodorescu. Bucharest: Crater, 1999. 22 cm., 127 pp.; ISBN: 9739029647. In Romanian.

§*Poems. Selected by James Fenton. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. xxiv, 95 pp.; ISBN: 9780571236039.

Poems by William Blake. Ed. Alice Meynell. 1911, [1927]. <BB #289> C. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Legacy Reprint Series. 244 pp.; ISBN: 9781163898765.

C is a digital reproduction of the 1911 edition.

The Poems of William Blake. Ed. W. B. Yeats. 1893 …. <BB #293, BBS p. 161, Blake (2003, 2009, 2010)> L. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Legacy Reprint Series. 324 pp.; ISBN: 9781163393420. M. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 292 pp.

The Poems, with Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake. Prefatory notice by Joseph Skipsey. 1885 …. <BB #298, Blake (2003, 2009)> F. §N.p.: BiblioBazaar, 2010. 296 pp.; ISBN: 9781141086689. G. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 304 pp.; ISBN: 9781154815450.

§Poesie. Introduzione di Sergio Perosa, cura e traduzione di Giacomo Conserva. 1976, 1991. <BBS p. 162, Blake (1999, 2007)> C. 3rd ed. Rome: Newton, 2003. Grandi Tascabili Economici. 22 cm., 198 pp. In Italian.

§Poesie. Novara: De Agostini, [2005]. I tesori della poesia in miniatura. 9 cm., 344 pp. In Italian.

The Poetical Works of William Blake. Ed. John Sampson. 1905 …. <BB #300, BBS p. 162> G. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 7.4" x 9.7", 432 pp.; ISBN: 9781177688857.

*The Poetical Works of William Blake. Ed. John Sampson. 1913 …. <BB #302> O. §[No editor named]. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 6" x 9", 270 pp.; ISBN: 9781153250368.

§Poetry of William Blake. Ed. P. K. Roy. Jaipur: ABD Publishers, 2010. 353 pp.; ISBN: 9788183760508.

Selections from the Symbolical Poems of William Blake. Ed. Frederick E. Pierce. 1915. <BB #323> B. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Legacy Reprint Series. C. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 102 pp.; ISBN: 9781176971240.

§Selections from the Writings of William Blake. Ed. Laurence Housman. 1893. <BB #325> B. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 308 pp.; ISBN: 9781152598218.

*Songs of Innocence and of Experience. A Portfolio of Eighteen Facsimile Impressions. 2009. <Blake (2010)§> Two octavo-size paper-covered “volumes” (13.9 x 19.4 cm.) within a huge hinged double-clamshell box (132.5 x 37 cm.).

The text volume, *William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794): A Note on Production, consists of Anon., [introduction] in the third person (5-8) and Michael Phillips, “A Note on Production” (9-34), with sections on “Relief Etching” (18-22), “Printing the Facsimile” (23-24), “Ink” (25-26), “Paper” (27-30), and “Wrappers” (31), most of it “abstracted” (33) from his “The Printing of Blake’s America a Prophecy,” Print Quarterly 21 (2004) <Blake (2005)>. The plates were printed by “Dennis Hearne at Flying Horse Editions.” The facsimile “volume” consists of a folded unmarked leaf with string through three stabholes plus 18 unsewn reproductions.

Review

Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience with Other Poems. [Ed. R. H. Shepherd]. 1866, 1868, 2009. <BB #335, Blake (2010)>

Review

§Tygře, tygře, žhavě žhneš. Trans. Zdeněk Hron. Illus. Vojtěch Domlátil. Prague: Dokořán, 2010. Mocca. 15 cm., 75 pp.; ISBN: 9788073633066. In Czech.

§*Udvalgte skrifter. Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1970. 166 pp. In Danish.

§Vizije. Trans. Marko Grčić. Zagreb: Centar za društvene nauke, 1972. Biblioteka Centra, Edicija Pjesnici. 179 pp. In Croatian?

§Vječno evanđelje. Trans. Marko Grčić. Zagreb: Grafički zavod Hrvatske, 1980. Biblioteka Zora 2. 20 cm., 196 pp. In Croatian?

“Komentar” (172-89).

William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>

In 2010 the archive added 39 illustrations to the Bible (20 watercolors and 19 temperas), An Island in the Moon, Milton (D) (all four copies are now reproduced in the archive), Visions (E, I), and Marriage (B, E).

Works by William Blake. 1876. <BB #368, BBS p. 169>

“A List of Books Published by Chatto & Windus” (London, Dec. 1874) [42] advertises

Blake’s Works. Messrs. Chatto & Windus have in preparation a series of Reproductions in Facsimile of the Works of William Blake, including the “Songs of Innocence and [of] Experience,” “The Book of Thel,” “America,” “The Vision[s] of the Daughters of Albion,” [43] “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” “Europe, a Prophecy,” “Jerusalem,” “Milton,” “Urizen,” “The Song of Los,” &c. These Works will be issued both coloured and plain. (36)

The same works were named and a quotation from Charles Lamb added in “A List of Books Published by Chatto and Windus” (n.d.) [44] and in the Chatto & Windus “List of Books” (Oct. 1876), [45] omitting the Lamb quotation.

This seems to be the Works by William Blake, reproduced from copies of Blake’s poems in the British Museum. However, there are important differences. Works by William Blake omits Milton, Jerusalem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and “&c,” it was not colored, and the individual poems were not separately issued in “a series.” Marriage was probably omitted because it had been reproduced in 1868 by John Camden Hotten, whose stock was taken over by Chatto & Windus. [46] Further, the Chatto & Windus lists do not suggest that the work was “for Private Circulation.” And after 1876 “Blake’s Works” no longer appeared in Chatto & Windus lists, though Swinburne’s William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: Chatto & Windus, 1868) was advertised in all these lists.

Chatto & Windus had 100 sets of “Blake reproductions” printed on 17 Nov. 1877 and bound on 26 Jan. 1878 <BBS p. 169>. Plainly the Works by William Blake dated 1876 was not ready for distribution until 1878.

Jerusalem was probably omitted because an uncolored facsimile was published by John Pearson in 1877 <BBS p. 88>.

§Works of William Blake. Boston: MobileReference, 2007. Mobi Collected Works. ISBN: 9781605011783. An e-book.

*The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Ed. Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. 1893 …. <BB #369, BBS pp. 169-70, Blake (2008, 2009)>

Note the *prospectus for The Poetic Books of William Blake, Collected, and Their Myth and Meaning Explained by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats (London: Quaritch, 1891) <National Library of Ireland>.

§Works: Opere. Trans. Mihai Stroe. 2 vols. Iaşi: Institutul European, 2006. In Romanian and English.

Vol. 1: The Prophetic Books: Vala, or The Four Zoas/Cărţile profetice: Vala sau Cei patru Zoa; vol. 2: The Illuminated Prophetic Books: Milton/Cărţile profetice iluminate: Milton.

Part II: Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings

Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors

Bible

Blair, Robert, The Grave (1805)

Edition

Review

Section B: Collections and Selections

*Binyon, Laurence. The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake. Ed. Geoffrey Holme. 1922, 1967. <BB #404> C. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 292 pp.; ISBN: 9781177680431.

Part III: Commercial Engravings [47]

Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors

Bible

Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826 …)

Editions

§*The Book of Job Translated in Rhyme by J. H. Schwarz with William Blake’s Illustrations. Peoria: Rev. J. H. Schwarz, 1974.

It includes reproductions of “proof” impressions of all Blake’s prints save the title page. [48]

§*William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job. With a commentary by Dr. Udo Szekulics. Vienna: Udo Szekulics, 2010. 64 pp.; ISBN: 9783200017382.

Includes full-size reproductions of the 22 engravings.

§Illustrations of the Book of Job. [Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 52 pp.; ISBN: 9781176714991.

Blair, Robert, The Grave (1808, 1813, [1870], 1926)

Editions

§The Grave, a Poem. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings Executed by L. Schiavonetti, from the Original Inventions of William Blake. [Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 86 pp.; ISBN: 9781176652071.

Sales, etc., 1808-1830s [49]

1808

1813

Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer’s Pilgrims (1812)

Notice

Newly Recorded Title

§European Magazine, and London Review 43 (Apr. 1803)

The oval frontispiece of “George Romney, Esq.^r” engraved by William Ridley of Romney’s self-portrait probably derives from Blake’s miniature copied from the self-portrait for Hayley, not from Romney’s original (then belonging to Hayley, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London). The evidence is persuasively laid out by Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, “‘the fiends of Commerce’” (see Blake 44.2 in Part VI).

Flaxman, John, Compositions from … Hesiod (1817, 1870)

Notice [54]

Flaxman, John, The Iliad of Homer (1805, 1870)

Hayley, William, Ballads (1805)

Hayley, William, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802)

Sales of all four ballads [55]

Hayley, William, The Life of George Romney (1809)

Ordinary copies of Hayley’s Romney have a printed spine label reading “LIFE | OF | G. ROMNEY | — | HAYLEY” <Essick>, but that on large-paper copies reads “HAYLEY’S | LIFE | of | ROMNEY. | Illustrated | WITH | TWELVE PLATES | BY | CAROLINE WATSON ” <Essick>, though she engraved only 7 of them.

Newly Recorded Engraving after Blake

In Caroline Watson’s frontispiece of three self-portraits of Romney, the small oval one at bottom representing Romney wearing a hat is probably copied from Blake’s lost miniature (Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, “‘the fiends of Commerce’” [see Blake 44.2 in Part VI] 64).

Hayley, William, The Triumphs of Temper (1803, 1807)

The two versions of The Triumphs of Temper dated 1807, each called the “Thirteenth Edition,” are typographically identical except for the title pages. [56] The one without the Blake prints is the second state of the thirteenth edition, not a new edition.

Malkin, Benjamin Heath, A Father’s Memoirs of His Child (1806)

Edition

Rees, Abraham, The Cyclopædia (1802-20)

Pl. 3, “GEM Engraving” “Engraved by W. Blake & W. Lowry” and “Drawn by Farey,” representing Jupiter Serapis, was “copied after pl. 2 in Lorenz Natter, A Treatise on the Ancient Method of Engraving on Precious Stones (London: for the author, 1754).” [57]

Remember Me! (1824, 1825)

Reviews

Salzmann, C. G., Elements of Morality (1791, 1792, 1799, 1805, ?1815)

Robert N. Essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 141, suggests that the hand of Blake’s apprentice Thomas Owen may be found in the anonymous Salzmann prints dated Oct. 1790 to Mar. 1791: “They are technically quite simple, in comparison with Blake’s other etchings/engravings of the period, and contain awkward patches ….”

Stedman, John Gabriel, Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition … (1796, 1806, 1813)

Blake’s engraving of “The Skinning of the Aboma Snake” was copied in A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World; Many of Which Are Now First Translated into English. Digested on a New Plan, by John Pinkerton … Illustrated with Plates, vol. 14 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Cadell and Davies, 1813) at p. 257 <Victoria University in the University of Toronto>.

2. “The Skinning of the Aboma Snake” … [+]

Virgil, Pastorals (1821)

Reviews, notices

Wollstonecraft, Mary, Original Stories from Real Life (1791, 1796)

Edition

Young, Edward, Night Thoughts (1797)

Sales and collection records, 1798-1840 [58]

Section B: Collections and Selections

*Butterworth, Adeline M. William Blake, Mystic. 1911. <BB #516> B. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 98 pp.; ISBN: 9781171519058.

Appendix: Books Improbably Alleged to Have Blake Engravings

Hume, David, The History of England

(London: Robert Bowyer, 1793-1806) <BBS p. 278>

An advertisement for a prospectus (dated 2 Jan. 1792) for Bowyer’s edition of Hume’s History of England appeared in the Oracle for 30 Jan. 1792. The work was to appear “in Numbers,” “Superbly Ornamented,” but there is no indication of how many numbers or engravings. The “Gentlemen … actually Engaged” include “W. Blake” among engravers. [59]

Part IV: Catalogues and Bibliographies

1843 21 February

Lot 336 is “Blake (William) Poetical Sketches Privately printed, 1783 ^*_*^* Contains King Edward the Third, a Drama” [6d. to the dealer Rodd]. This may be copy Q, though it could equally well be K, M, or V-Y. [60] The catalogue was discovered by Robert N. Essick in 2010 while he was browsing in the Huntington stacks.

1864

1878 29 January

The sale included America (B), Visions (N), and Blake’s copy of Swedenborg’s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788).

Review

1879 March

3. Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of English Literature … [+]

1883 10 August

It consists of:

4. Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of Some More Works on the Fine Arts … [+]

1883 October

1890 23 April–1 May

The Thomas Gaisford whose bookplate is in America (B), Thel (C), Europe (E), Urizen (C), Poetical Sketches (N), Innocence (H), Songs (M), Visions (I), and Young’s Night Thoughts (1797) (colored copy G) is not the Greek scholar (1779-1855), as in the BB index, but his son with the same name (b. 1816). [62]

1983

For addenda, see Blake 43.4 in Part VI.

1991

For addenda, see Blake 43.4 in Part VI.

2009 20 April–4 October

Reviews

2009 11 September–2010 3 January

Reviews [63]

2009 12 September–2010 3 January

Review

2010 19 June–10 July

Exhibition with only an invitation card.

2010 3 August–2 October

The exhibition focuses particularly on works acquired since the gift (2005) of the Bentley Collection of Blake and his contemporaries (see the Victoria University exhibition of 30 Oct.-15 Dec. 2006 <Blake (2007)>), including the extra-illustrated Bray, Life of Thomas Stothard (1851) (see pp. 13, 22, 24-25), Diario de los niños (1839-40) (pp. 16-17), Varley, Zodiacal Physiognomy (1828) (pp. 18-19), Stothard, “The Fall of Rosamond” (1783) (pp. 22-23), Watteau, “Morning [and] Evening Amusement” (1782) (pp. 26-28), Morland, “The Idle Laundress” and “The Industrious Cottager” (pp. 29-31), “Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims” (1810) (pp. 34, 36-37), “Spring” (pp. 46-47), and Remember Me! (1824, two copies, one with the rare color-printed slipcase) (pp. 52-55). Marriage (M) is reproduced entire.

The undated draft letter by William Hayley addressed to “Dear Poet & Philosopher” (laid into a copy of Hayley’s Triumphs of Temper [1803]) was almost certainly sent to Erasmus Darwin, not “to William Blake” (p. 21). The letter recommends “my excellent friend Flaxman who is just returned [in 1794] from Rome” as a sculptor for a monument to Wedgwood (Flaxman’s monument to Wedgwood is in Stoke-on-Trent church).

The exhibition and catalogue were associated with Blake in Our Time: A Symposium Celebrating the Future of Blake Studies and the Legacy of G. E. Bentley Jr (28 Aug. 2010), organized by Karen Mulhallen, and the launch of Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley Jr, ed. Karen Mulhallen (see Part VI).

Podcasts in video and audio of the symposium and still photos of the exhibition are available online <http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/blake_in_our_time/podcasts.html>. The symposium part consists of:

5. Remember Me! Blake in Our Time: A Keepsake Book … [+]

Part V: Books Owned by William Blake the Poet

Newly Recorded Title

There is no instance of a poet writing good Eng.
Blank verse who has not also written good
Rhyme: but many have written good rhyme
who have shewn no capability of writing. good
Blank verse —

There were reviews in Critical Review 63 (June 1787): 401-06; Town and Country Magazine 19 (July 1787): 293; European Magazine, and London Review 12 (July 1787): 18-19 (5s.; “Mr. Taylor hath displayed no common erudition”; “we warmly recommend the ‘Dissertation’”; “though Mr. Taylor may not be ranked very high as a poetical translator, he may be placed in no inferior station among the proficients in abstruser literature”); Monthly Review 79 (Aug. 1788): 133-42.

Appendix: Books Owned by the Wrong William Blake

Bible

A copy is inscribed in ink in “the same juvenile hand” on the front and rear pastedowns “a a Blake” and “W Blake.” Robert N. Essick, to whom the work was offered in Nov. 2010 by Maggs, concludes that it is “very unlikely that these inscriptions … are by the poet and artist.” [66] Let us assume charitably that they are by one of the host of contemporary individuals named “William Blake” or “W. Blake.” [67]

Part VI: Criticism, Biography, and Scholarly Studies

Adams, Hazard. Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism and Liberal Education. 1990. <BBS p. 330>

For a revised version of chapter 4, see Blake’s Margins, below.

*Adams, Hazard. Blake’s Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations. 2009. 4^o, 204 pp.; ISBN: 9780786445363. <Blake (2010)§>

It consists of chapters on Blake’s annotations to (1) Lavater, Aphorisms (7-27); (2) Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, Divine Love, and Divine Providence (28-60); (3) Watson, Apology (61-80); (4) Bacon, Essays (81-96); (5) Dante, Inferno, trans. Boyd (97-108); (6) Reynolds, Discourses (109-38); (7) Spurzheim, Insanity (139-49); (8) Berkeley, Siris (150-59); (9) Wordsworth, Poems and preface to The Excursion (160-76); (10) Thornton, Lord’s Prayer (177-92); plus (11) “Addendum” (193-94) and (12) “A Note on Blake’s Reading” (195-97).

Earlier versions of chapter 6 appeared as “Revisiting Reynold[s]’s Discourses and Blake’s Annotations,” Blake in His Time, ed. Robert N. Essick and Donald Pearce (1978) <BBS pp. 466-68> and in his Antithetical Essays in Literary Criticism and Liberal Education (1990) <BBS p. 330>.

Reviews

§*Adams, Hazard. William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: A Study of A Descriptive Catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2010 (copyright 2011). 199 pp.; ISBN: 9780786449866.

§Alves, Andrea Lima. “A interação entre texto e ilustrações nos illuminated books de William Blake pelo prisma da obra America, a Prophecy [The Interaction between Text and Illustration in the Illuminated Books of William Blake through His Work America, a Prophecy].” Universidade Estadual de Campinas PhD, 2007. In Portuguese.

Anon. [under Blake (1758-1828)]. Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Vol. 2. Altenburg: Verlagsbuchhandlung von H. A. Pierer, 1857. 841. In German.

§Anon. Art by William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 107 pp.; ISBN: 9781155319315. Not illustrated.

Anon. “Attack and Defence of Swedenborg in the Cheltenham Examiner.” Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem Magazine 5, no. 60 (Nov. 1839): 663. <Bodleian>

The attack in the Cheltenham Examiner, 4 Sept. 1839, assumes that the new edition of Blake’s Songs is “a fair specimen of what ‘Swedenborgianism’ truly is.” A reply by “A Swedenborgian” is in the issue for 18 Sept., but it does not point out “that Swedenborg and his doctrines are in no degree answerable for the phantasies and absurdities of Blake,” whose “childish” poems should be called “Songs of Silliness and Diseased Perception.”

Anon. “Blake, Katharine.” Sarah Josepha Hale. Woman’s Record; or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from “The Beginning” till A.D. 1850. 1853. <Blake (2010), under Hale> B. … from the Creation to A.D. 1854. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. C. … A.D. 1868. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. D. Biography of Distinguished Women; or, Woman’s Record, from the Creation to A.D. 1869. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. E. 1970.

Mostly quotation from “a writer, who knew them intimately” [Cunningham ¶10]; Blake died in 1828 and “she died a few years afterwards.”

Anon. “Britain’s Tate Unveils Mislaid Blake Etchings.” Yahoo! News Canada 11 Jan. 2010 [AFP news agency]. <http://ca.news.yahoo.com>.

The Tate “unveiled Monday eight ‘powerful’ etchings by … William Blake, which lay undiscovered for decades before turning up at a second-hand book sale” “tucked inside a railway timetable in a box of books.” They were bought by the Tate for £441,000 with the help of the Art Fund. The vendor “has asked to remain anonymous.” They “will go on public display” at the Tate in July and will then “travel to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art in Moscow in November 2011 for the exhibition William Blake and British Visionary Art.”

Anon. [Miss Flaxman]. “John Flaxman, Esq. P.S. R.A.” Gentleman’s Magazine 97.1 (Mar. 1827): 273-76; (May 1827): 472.

An obituary consisting mostly of a list of monuments. “His illustrations of Hesiod were made after his return to England. The original drawings remain in the possession of his sisters; and engravings from them, by W. Blake, were published in 1816 [i.e., 1817]” (273).

§Anon. Poetry by William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 165 pp.; ISBN: 9781155789132.

A collection of notes about Blake’s poems from Wikipedia.

*Anon. “William Blake Etchings Secured for the Nation: Eight etchings by William Blake have been acquired for the nation after the Tate gallery raised £441,000.” BBC News 11 Jan. 2010. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news>.

They are from the Small Book of Designs (B).

§Anon. William Blake Le Mariage du Ciel et de l’Enfer, And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time, Urizen, Grand Dragon Rouge, Mythologie de William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 30 pp.; ISBN: 9781153608565. In French.

It consists of entries from Wikipedia.

Anon. “William Blake: The Illustrator of The Grave, &c.” Literary Gazette (1827) <BB #1071A>

This appeared, seemingly word for word, in the Standard [London] 18 Aug. 1827.

§Anon. Works Inspired by William Blake. [Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 40 pp.; ISBN: 9781156203736.

It consists of entries from Wikipedia.

§Basan, F. Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes. 2nd ed. Paris: Chez L’ Auteur, Cuchet, et Prault, 1789. 1: 70. B. F. Basan. Supplément au dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes. 1791. <BB #A1129> C. P. F. and H. L. Basan. Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes. 2nd ed. 1809. <BB #1129>

The first edition of the Dictionnaire (1767) had no Blake entry. The entry in the 1789 edition is the same as those in 1791 and 1809, “except for minor differences in punctuation and spelling,” according to Robert N. Essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2010,” Blake 44.4 (spring 2011): 125.

§Beer, John. “Blake’s Poetry and Prophecies.” The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Ed. Michael O’Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

*Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Pictura Ignota: Blake’s Most Seen, Least Known Painting.” Descant 41.4 (winter 2010): 73-103.

The *painting (1812) is the inn sign, perhaps 6' x 8', for the courtyard of the Talbot (formerly Tabard) Inn in Southwark representing “Chaucer and his merry Company setting out [from the inn] on their journey” to Canterbury. The sign, visible for 60 years, was repeatedly described and ascribed to Blake in the nineteenth century, but has been forgotten since then. Another painting hung “over the gateway” representing Chaucer may also have been by Blake.

6. Anonymous woodcut, probably designed and engraved by Thomas Prattent, of “The Talbot Inn” … [+]

Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake’s Conversations. 2008. <Blake (2009)>

Review

§Bjelogrlić, Aleksandar. “Blejk na pragu novog doba [Blake at the Threshold of the New Age].” Nevidljivi arhipelag. Belgrade: Praizvorni Zivot, 1994. 15-29. In Serbian.

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Volume 43, number 3 (winter 2009-10)

Reviews

Minute Particulars

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Volume 43, number 4 (spring 2010)

Review

Remembrance

Newsletter

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Volume 44, number 1 (summer 2010)

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Volume 44, number 2 (fall 2010)

Review

Minute Particular

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Volume 44, number 3 (winter 2010-11)

Reviews

§Blake, David, and Elliott Gruner. “Redeeming Captivity: The Negative Revolution of Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 1.1 (1997): 21-34.

§Bogoeva, Ljiljana. “Blejk i nadolazece vreme [Blake and the Future].” Student no. 6 (Mar. 1973). In Serbian.

§Bogoeva, Ljiljana. “U traganju za identitetom: Primer Vilijama Blejka i Vilijama Butlera Jejtsa [In Search of Identity: Examples of William Blake and William Butler Yeats].” Gradina 9 (1980): 44-53. In Serbian.

Boldina, Alla. “Androgynous Imagination in Romantic and Modernist Literature: From William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to D. H. Lawrence and H. D.” State University of New York (Binghamton) PhD, 2007. <Blake (2008)>

It was published in her book (see below).

§Boldina, Alla. Androgynous Imagination of Difference: From William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to D. H. Lawrence and H. D. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. ISBN: 9783836461788.

Apparently derived from her thesis (see above).

Borkowska, Eliza. But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body: Blake’s Revelation Un-Locked. 2009. <Blake (2010)§>

A philosophical consideration of Blake and John Locke.

§Brown, Mark. “Tate Britain Makes Room for William Blake Art Found in Railway Timetable: Curator [Philippa Simpson] says of eight tiny, hand-coloured works tackling big themes: ‘It’s probably best not to get into too much detail.’” Guardian [London] 12 Aug. 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk>

The prints are from the Small Book of Designs (B).

*Bruder, Helen P., and Tristanne Connolly, eds. Queer Blake. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN: 9780230218369.

There are some queer uses of “queer” here.

Review

*Brus, Günter. Brus’s + Blake’s Jobs: Bild-Dichtung, Werke auf Papier, Nachwort, Transkription, Impressum, Vorzugsausgaben. Klagenfurt: Ritter Verlag, 2008. 4^o (30 cm.), 162 + 22 pp.; ISBN: 9783854154327. In German.

The work consists of notes, doodles, and echoes of Blake’s designs from “The Ancient of Days” to Dante. It originated in a symposium on his seventieth birthday, 18 Oct. 2008, and an exhibition 17 Oct. 2008-25 Jan. 2009 at Neue Galerie Graz, Austria.

§Burdett, Osbert. William Blake’s Poland Street and the Early Prophecies. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 17.8 x 25.4 cm., 26 pp.; ISBN: 9781161538748.

An extract from Burdett’s William Blake (1926) <BB #1316>.

*Bürger, M. W. [i.e., J. Thoré]. “William Blake.” Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: école anglaise. 1863. <BB #1317>

The wood engraving of “Death’s Door” (11.3 x 17.4 cm.), signed “L. Chapon” (i.e., Léon Louis Chapon [1836-1918]), is not noted in BB. [69] The work seems to consist of individually paginated chapters first issued separately.

*Buryn, Ed. The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination. 1995. <Blake (1996)> B. §2010.

Mary K. Greer’s Tarot Blog <http://marygreer.wordpress.com>, 9 Sept. 2010, announces the “Revised Edition of the William Blake Tarot.” The 2010 edition is said to have better colors, etc. Ed Buryn, “my ex-husband,” created it, but Mary Greer had a lot to do with the original.

*Cary, Elisabeth Luther. The Art of William Blake: His Sketch-Book, His Water-Colours, His Painted Books. 1907. <BB #1349> B. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 25 cm., xi, 56 pp., xlix leaves of pls.; ISBN: 9781146920360.

§Chapman, Wayne K. “Blake, Swedenborg, and A Vision: A Case for Recombinate Influence.” Yeats’s Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 154-85 (chapter 7).

*Cheney, Sheldon. “A Mystic in the Age of Enlightened Scepticism: William Blake.” Men Who Have Walked with God. 1945. <BB #1378> B. §William Blake: A Mystic in the Age of Enlightened Skepticism. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 8.5" x 11", 88 pp.; ISBN: 9781161595062.

*Chesterton, G. K. William Blake. 1910 …. <BB #1381, BBS p. 436, Blake (2003)> J. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 226 pp.

Chevalier, Tracy. Burning Bright. 2007. <Blake (2008, 2009, 2010)>

The German translation §Die Lieder des Mr. Blake, trans. Ursula Wulfekamp (Berlin: List, 2008) <Blake (2010)>, has also appeared under the title §Das Mädchen mit den funkelnden Augen (Berlin: List, 2010).

§Crnjanski, Milos. “Viljem Blejk [William Blake].” Srpski književni glasnik 22.2 (16 Sept. 1927): 157-58. In Serbian.

*Crosby, Mark. “William Blake in Westminster Abbey, 1774-1777.” Bodleian Library Record 22.2 (Oct. 2009): 162-80.

“This article situates his [Blake’s] time in the Abbey in the context of his apprenticeship before offering a few examples of how the Gothic aesthetic resonates in his later works” (162). It is part of an issue “In Celebration of Richard Gough (1735-1809)” (118-224).

*Damon, S. Foster. William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols. 1924 …. <BB #1455, BBS p. 447, Blake (2010)> G. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 510 pp.; ISBN: 9781161609417. (Hardcover version of the Kessinger paperback of 2006 <Blake (2010)>.)

§DeAngelis, Michael. “Gender and Other Transcendences: William Blake as Johnny Depp [in Dead Man].” Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Murray Pomerance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video. 283-99.

§Dent, Shirley. “Iniquitous Symmetries: Aestheticism and Secularism in the Reception of William Blake’s Works in Books and Periodicals during the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s.” University of Warwick PhD, 2000. xi, 308 leaves. <http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2904>.

*De Selincourt, Basil. William Blake. 1909 …. <BB #1480, Blake (2002, 2006)> E. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 400 pp.; ISBN: 9781178354799.

§*Dołowska, Ewa, ed. Wielcy malarze—ich życie, inspiracje i dzieło. Cz. 155, William Blake. Warsaw: P. O. Polska, 2005. 29 cm., 31 pp.; ISBN: 838978565X. In Polish.

A biography.

§Drennan, William. “Blake and Gnosis.” University of Liverpool PhD, 1999.

*Edmundson, Mark. “William Blake’s America, 2010.” Chronicle of Higher Education 24 Oct. 2010. <http://chronicle.com/article/William-Blakes-America-2010/125024>.

Blake’s “London,” which today he might call “New York,” “reveals us to ourselves” as “mentally imprisoned.” (By 2 Nov. 2010 there had been 11 online responses—to the politics, not to Blake.)

Eliot, T. S. “The Naked Man.” Athenæum (1920) <BB #1544, BBS p. 461, Blake (2009)> … “William Blake.” Valitud esseesid. Trans. Jaak Rähesoo. [Tallinn]: Hortus Litterarum, 1997. In Estonian.

Elliott, Clare. “‘A Backward Glance O’er’ the (Dis)United States: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the ‘Authentic American Religion.’” European Journal of American Culture (2009) <Blake (2010)§>

“Emersonian self-reliance, when read through this Blakean lens, needs serious consideration …” (91).

§Elliott, Clare. “William Blake and America: Freedom and Violence in the Atlantic World.” Comparative American Studies 7.3 (2009): 209-24.

§Elliott, Clare Frances. “William Blake’s American Legacy: Transcendentalism and Visionary Poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.” University of Glasgow PhD, 2008. 277 pp.

*Erdman, David V. “Blake’s Vision of Slavery.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute (1952) <BB #1569> B. Reprinted in Enslavement and Emancipation. Ed. Blake Hobby. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2010. Bloom’s Literary Themes. 229-44.

§Erle, Sibylle. Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy. London: Legenda, 2010. Studies in Comparative Literature 21. xii, 232 pp.; ISBN: 9781906540692.

*Erle, Sibylle. “Leaving Their Mark: Lavater, Fuseli and Blake’s Imprint on Aphorisms on Man.” Comparative Critical Studies (2006) <Blake (2010)§>

Particularly concerned with “the early history of physiognomy in England, Lavater’s reception and his English connections” (348).

*Essick, Robert N., and Donald Pearce, eds. Blake in His Time. 1978. <BBS pp. 466-68>

For a revised version of Hazard Adams, “Revisiting Reynold[s]’s Discourses and Blake’s Annotations,” see Adams, Blake’s Margins, above.

§*Farrell, Michael. “Blake and the Methodists.” University of Oxford DPhil, 2010. vii, 356 pp.

§*Fostowicz, Michał. Boska analogia: William Blake a sztuka starożytności. Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Słowo/obraz Terytoria, 2008. 23 cm., 563 pp.; ISBN: 9788374538121. In Polish.

§*Furman-Adams, Wendy. “Visual Arts.” Milton in Context. Ed. Stephen B. Dobranski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 180-209 (chapter 16; 189, 193-95 on Blake).

Gannon, Thomas C. Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 67-71.

Garnett, Richard. William Blake, Painter and Poet. 1895, 1971, 1972. <BB #1669, BBS p. 482> D. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Legacy Reprint Series. 98 pp.

§*Garrett, Yanis. Songs of Innocence and [of ] Experience: William Blake. Study Notes for Standard English: Module C 2009-2012 HSC. Seven Hills [Australia]: Five Senses Education, 2009. Top Notes. 21 cm., 169 pp.; ISBN: 9781741300789.

*Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” 1863 …. <BB #1680, BBS p. 484, Blake (1999, 2002, 2007, 2010)> Q. §[1863 ed.]. Vol. 1. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 432 pp.; ISBN: 9781163442982. R. [1880 ed.]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 992 pp. [both vols.]; ISBN: 9781108013697.

Reviews, announcements, etc. (1863 ed.)

Gillham, D. G. Blake’s Contrary States: The “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” as Dramatic Poems. 1966. <BB #1688> B. §Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Manufactured on demand. 268 pp.; ISBN: 9780521129862.

Gilroy, John. “Revolution, Reaction and the Natural World: Wordsworth and Coleridge, John Clare and William Blake” and “Extended Commentary: Blake, ‘The Tyger’ from Songs of Experience (1793).” Romantic Literature. Harlow: Longman, 2010. York Notes Companions. ISBN: 9781408204795.

§Goldman, William David. “‘Prophetic History’: Blake, Browning and the Visionary Tradition.” University of London PhD, 2005.

Goldsmith, Steven. “William Blake and the Future of Enthusiasm.” Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009) <Blake (2010)§>

“Sartre’s The Emotions provides a useful framework for understanding” Blake’s modern critics (460 [abstract]).

§Gordon, Robert C. “Apocalypse Improvised: The Prophecies of William Blake.” Arms and the Imagination: Essays on War, Politics, and Anglophone Culture. Lanham: Hamilton Books, 2009. Chapter 12.

§Grabnar, Andrej. William Blake: literarni portret. Šmarješke Toplice: Stella, 2010. Klasiki in duhovnost. 22 cm., 124 pp.; ISBN: 9789612462017. In Slovenian.

§Grčić, Marko. “Uz vizije Williama Blakea [With Visions of William Blake].” Provincia deserta. Zagreb: Kolo Matice hrvatske, 1970. 73-81. In Croatian.

See also his Vizije (Part I, Section B).

§Grčić, Marko. “William Blake.” Forum 14.9-10 (Sept.-Oct. 1967): 7-52.

Green, Matthew J. A. Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism. 2005. <Blake (2006, 2008, 2009)>

Review

§*Haggarty, Sarah. Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism no. 84. 256 pp.; ISBN: 9780521117289.

Parts of chapter 3, “Charity” (84-110), are revised from “From Donation to Demand?” Blake and Conflict, ed. Haggarty and Jon Mee (2009) <Blake (2010)>.

*Haggarty, Sarah, and Jon Mee, eds. Blake and Conflict. 2009. <Blake (2010)>

For a revised version of chapter 6, “From Donation to Demand? Almsgiving and the ‘Annotations to Thornton,’” see Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts, above.

Hamblen, Emily S. On the Minor Prophecies of William Blake. 1930. <BB #1780>

It was published in separate chapters as
§William Blake and His Return to Illumination. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 18 pp.; ISBN: 9781161503111.
§William Blake and The Book of Urizen. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 44 pp.; ISBN: 9781161571745.
§William Blake and the Psychology of His Symbols. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 24 pp.; ISBN: 9781161520477.
§William Blake and The Song of Los. [Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 28 pp.; ISBN: 9781161536058.

§Hartman, Geoffrey. “Notes toward a Supreme Addiction: The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick.” Religion, Literature and the Imagination: Sacred Worlds. Ed. Mark Knight and Louise Lee. London: Continuum, 2009. Continuum Literary Studies. Chapter 2.

*Higgins, Charlotte. “Tate Buys … Blakes.” Guardian [London] 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk>.

They were bought for £441,000 with the aid of the Art Fund.

§Hobby, Blake. “Urizen and the Fragmentary Experience of the Sublime in The Four Zoas.” The Sublime. Ed. Blake Hobby. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2010. Bloom’s Literary Themes.

§Hoffmann, Deborah Lee. “The Spirit of Sound: Prosodic Method in the Poetry of William Blake, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot.” McGill University PhD, 2010.

§Hoyle, Ben. “Rare Etchings by William Blake Discovered in Railway Timetable.” Times [London] 11 Jan. 2010.

About prints from the Small Book of Designs (B).

§*Hutchings, Kevin. “Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

§Ibata, Hélène. “William Blake’s Visual Sublime: The ‘Eternal Labours.’” European Romantic Review 21 (2010): 29-48.

§*Interfaces

Number 30 (spring 2010): Blake Intempestif/Unruly Blake

Ed. Jean-Marie Fournier and Maurice Géracht

Only 150 copies of the issue were printed, each with an impression from Michael Phillips’s facsimiles [2009] of Blake’s copperplates of Songs pls. 1, 3-4, 8, 12, 18-19, 24, 27, 29-30, 33, 37-38, 42, 46.

§James, Nicholas Philip. “William Blake.” Eduardo Paolozzi: Newton Figures. London: Cv Publications, 2005. Cv/Visual Arts Research.

A recorded conversation (1990) with Paolozzi (1924-2005).

§Jaynes, Julian. “The Ghost of a Flea: Visions of William Blake.” “Voices of the Mind,” part 2 of Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited. Ed. Marcel Kuijsten. Henderson: Julian Jaynes Society, 2006.

§Johanson, Paula. “William Blake (1757-1827).” Early British Poetry: “Words that Burn.” Berkeley Heights: Enslow Publishers, 2009. Poetry Rocks!

Short biographies for a juvenile audience.

*Jones, John H. Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 8^o, xiii, 235 pp.; ISBN: 9780230622357.

“Whereas Milton concerns itself with the annihilation of authorial Selfhood, Jerusalem … [focuses] on the self-annihilation of the reader” (175).

Portions of the “Introduction” (1-20), “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Dialogue and ‘Imposition’” (chapter 2, 59-95), “The [First] Book of Urizen: The Problem of Authorial Selfhood” (chapter 3, 97-133), “Milton: The Annihilation of Authorial Selfhood” (chapter 4, 135-73), and “Jerusalem: The Reader and Self-Annihilation” (chapter 5, 175-211) are revised from his “‘Self-Annihilation’ and Dialogue in Blake’s Creative Process: Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem” (1994) (see below). Chapter 3 is revised from his “Printed Performance and Reading The Book[s] of Urizen” (1999) <Blake (2003)>.

*Jones, John H. “Printed Performance and Reading The Book[s] of Urizen: Blake’s Bookmaking Process and the Transformation of Late Eighteenth-Century Print Culture.” Colby Quarterly (1999) <Blake (2003)>

For “a revised version,” see his Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation, above.

Jones, John H. “‘Self-Annihilation’ and Dialogue in Blake’s Creative Process: Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem.” Modern Language Studies 24.2 (spring 1994): 3-10.

“Through self-annihilation, Blake attempts to undo the oppression of monologism” (9).

Revised portions appear in several chapters of his Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation, above.

§Kallerud, Mauritz Royce. “The Genre of Conjectural History: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and William Blake in the New World.” State University of New York (Buffalo) PhD, 1998. 242 pp.

§Kamčevski, Danko. “Paradoks u poeziji Viljema Blejka [Paradox in the Poetry of William Blake].” Koraci [Journal of Literature, Art, and Culture] 44.5-6 (June 2010): 157-64. In Serbian.

On the relationship between the language of paradox and the language of poetry, especially in “The Tyger” and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

§Kamperidēs, Lampros. Hoi gamoi tou Ouranou kai tēs Gēs: mia anagnōsē tou [Ezra] Pound kai tou Blake me hodēgo ton [Zēsimos] Lorentzato. Athens: Gephyres, 2003. 21 cm., 81 pp.; ISBN: 9605272539. In Greek.

Keeble, Brian. “William Blake: Art as Divine Vision.” Temenos Academy Review (2006) <Blake (2007)> B. God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition. Foreword by Wendell Berry. 2009. 85-98 (chapter 7). <Blake (2010)§>

“The urgency of his polemic all but defies us to feel the impress of his exaltation” (2009, p. 86).

*Kennedy, Maev. “Tate to Show Hidden Blakes. Consumed by flames, contorted in ecstasy … William Blake’s lost depictions of the torments of hell have been acquired by the Tate.” Guardian [London] 11 Jan. 2010. <http://www.guardian.co.uk>.

The prints [from the Small Book of Designs (B)] were found in “an Edwardian international train timetable”; “a book lover bought them at a sale in north London in 1978.”

Kobayashi, Keiko. “Blake and Kenzaburo Oe.” Ritsumeikan Bungaku [Journal of Cultural Science] no. 615 (2010): 562-56 [sic].

“This is a revised version of the oral report … to the International Conference ‘Blake in the Orient’ [2003 <Blake (2004)>] ….”

§Koljević, Nikola. “Aktuelna rec u Blejkovom delu [The Word Actual (Contemporary) in Blake’s Work].” Književne novine 57 (Dec. 1957): 5. In Serbian.

§Kovel, Joel. “Dark Satanic Mills: William Blake and the Critique of War.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 21.2 (June 2010): 4-19.

§Kuić, Ranka. “Blejk, pesnik covekove duse [Blake, a Poet of Man’s Soul].” Antologija engleske romantičarske poezije. Belgrade: Naučna knjiga, 1974. 7-13. In Serbian.

§*Lamennais, Félicité Robert de. En troendes tale. Trans. Truls Winther. [Illustrations by William Blake]. Oslo: Tanum-Norli, 1978. 113 pp.; ISBN: 8251807182. In Norwegian.

Langridge, Irene. William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work. 1904. <BB #2098> B. §[Charleston]: Nabu Press, 2010. 318 pp.; ISBN: 9781178018172.

§[Lewis, David, ed.]. Blake Book. Leipzig: Lubok, 2010. 11 x 16 cm., 112 pp.; ISBN: 9783941601352. In English.

Artistic exercises in response to Blake by 14 artists.

§Linkin, Harriet Kramer. “Lucy Hooper, William Blake, and ‘The Fairy’s Funeral.’” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net no. 54 (May 2009). <http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/038760ar>.

On the context of Lucy Hooper’s poem.

*Linnell, David. Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co.: The Life of John Linnell. 1994. <Blake (1995)> B. §Brighton: Book Guild, 2010. ISBN: 9780863329173.

§Lučić, Milka. “Blejk i pohvala imaginaciji [Blake and a Tribute to Imagination].” Politika 13 Mar. 1999. In Serbian.

§MacPhee, Chantelle L. ‘“All the world’s a stage’: William Blake and William Shakespeare.” University of Glasgow PhD, 2002.

*Makdisi, Saree. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s. 2003. <Blake (2004)>

Review

*Malmberg, Carl-Johan. “William Blakes guld. Reflektioner kring ett måleriskt element [William Blake’s Gold. Reflections on a Painterly Element].” Biblis [a publication of Kungliga biblioteket (National Library of Sweden)] no. 49 (spring 2010): 2-14. In Swedish.

Malmberg, one of Sweden’s foremost art critics, argues that gold in the illuminated books is, in M. H. Abrams’s sense, both mirror and lamp. Contrasting the use of gold in a medieval illumination on the one hand and in an early painting by Ingres on the other, Malmberg shows that gold often does not have symbolic meaning in Blake’s works (he adduces the gold in the Jerusalem pl. 59 design, where the daughters labor at wheels, “Terrible their distress”), but is there for its own sake, its own existence, and that, while it may have symbolic meaning at times, there are important places where gold=gold.

*Matsushima, Shoichi. Blake ron-shu: Pickering kohon Milton sonota [Essays on Blake: The Pickering Manuscript, Milton, and Others]. Tokyo: Eikosha, 2010. 19 cm., 280 pp.; ISBN: 9784870971288. In Japanese.

§Mauger, Matthew Peter. “Prophetic Legislation: William Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the Law.” University of London PhD, 2005.

§Menneteau, Patrick. “William Blake and the Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Toward a Reassessment of the Jungian Contribution.” The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, and Alexander Pettit. New York: AMS, 2010. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, no. 59.

*Mertz, Jeffrey Barclay. “A Visionary among the Radicals: William Blake and the Circle of Joseph Johnson, 1790-95.” University of Oxford DPhil, 2010. 322 pp., 10 illustrations.

Well informed, cautious, and judicious.

§Milanović, Ljubomir. “Hermeneutika u delu Viljema Blejka [Hermeneutics in the Work of William Blake].” 3+4 4 (1998-99): 44-47. <http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/3_4/4/index_html?stdlang=ser_lat>. In Serbian.

§Morgan, Paige. “The Minute Particular in the Immensity of the Internet: What Coleridge, Hartley and Blake Can Teach Us about Digital Editing.” Romanticism 15.3 (Oct. 2009): 265-75.

Morimatsu, Kensuke. “Ima hitotsu no romanha shizen bigaku—Blake wo ta no shijin gun to hikaku koryo [Another Aesthetics of Romantic Nature—Comparing Blake with Other Poets].” Taikai Proceedings [Proceedings of the 81st General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan] no. 81 (2009): 59-61. In Japanese.

*Mulhallen, Karen, ed. Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley Jr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 4^o, xvi, 300 pp., 51 reproductions; ISBN: 9781442641518.

Part One: “Every Minute Particular Is Holy”: Materials

Part Two: “For Friendship’s Sake”: Friends and Patrons

Part Three: “What I Both See and Hear”: Architecture and Industry

For the associated exhibition and symposium, see Remember Me! under 2010 in Part IV.

*Nicoll, Allardyce. William Blake and His Poetry. 1922, 1969, 1977. <BB #2285, BBS p. 587> D. §[Memphis]: General Books, 2010. 160 pp.; ISBN: 9781152118560.

Niimi, Hatsuko. “Milton no joka ni tsuite—Blake juyo no ichi danmen [Preface to Milton: A Case Study in the Historical Reception of William Blake].” Nihon Joshi Daigaku Eibei Bungaku Kenkyu [Japan Women’s University, Studies in English and American Literature] no. 45 (2010): 1-17. In Japanese.

§Niyogi, Ralla Guha, ed. Romanticism and Its Legacies. Kolkata: Fine Prints in collaboration with Basanti Devi College, 2009. ISBN: 9788190688949.

It includes:

§Norvig, Gerda S. “On Creativity and Psychological Boundaries in the Life and Work of William Blake.” Fielding Graduate University [Santa Barbara] PhD, 2008.

*Otto, Peter. “Politics, Aesthetics, and Blake’s ‘bounding line.’” Word and Image 26.2 (Apr.-June 2010): 172-85.

On Blake’s “prophetic politics” as seen in America, The Book of Los, and Jerusalem (174-75).

§Pavlović, Miodrag. “Proročke knjige Vilijama Blejka [The Prophetic Books of William Blake].” Čitanje zamišljenog [Reading of the Imagined]. Novi Sad: Bratstvo-Jedinstvo, 1990. 135-40. In Serbian.

§Pavlović, Miodrag. “Visionar Vilijam Blejk [Visionary William Blake].” Politika (“Kultura-umetnost”) 13 Oct. 1957: 3. In Serbian.

Pearsall, Derek. William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope. 2003. <Blake (2004)> B. Reprinted in §The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005. Ed. Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, and Nicholas Watson. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010.

*Phillips, Michael. “The Printing of Blake’s America a Prophecy.” Print Quarterly (2004) <Blake (2005)>

Most of Phillips’s “A Note on Production” in *Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Portfolio of Eighteen Facsimile Impressions (2009) (see Part I, Section B) is “abstracted” from his 2004 essay.

§Popović, Vladeta. “Vilijam Blejk [William Blake].” Kroz englesku književnost [Through English Literature]. Belgrade: Izdavacka knjizarnica Rajkovica i Cukovica, 1929. 51-59. In Serbian.

§Popović, Vladeta. “Vilijam Blejk [William Blake].” Strani pregled 2 (Dec. 1927): 219-25. In Serbian.

§Powys, John Cowper. “William Blake.” Essays on De Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake. 1916. <BB #2447> B. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 70 pp.; ISBN: 9781161607444.

§Pullman, Philip. “Freedom: The award-winning novelist shares much of his philosophy of liberty with visionary artist William Blake.” Resurgence no. 258 (2010): 25-27.

Quinney, Laura. William Blake on Self and Soul. 2009. <Blake (2010)§>

“Blake’s psychology of subjectivity is astute, innovative, and complex” (xi). “A portion” of chapter 2, “Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake,” had appeared as “Wordsworth’s Ghosts and the Model of the Mind,” European Romantic Review 9.2 (spring 1998): 293-301, and another portion, revised here, had been printed as “Swerving Neo-Platonists,” Wordsworth Circle 37.1 (winter 2006): 31-38.

Review

*Ripley, Wayne C., and Justin Van Kleeck, eds. Editing and Reading Blake. [College Park]: University of Maryland, Sept. 2010. A Romantic Circles Praxis Volume. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/editing_blake/index.html>.

§Rix, Robert. “Magnetic Cure in William Blake’s The French Revolution.” Explicator 68.3 (2010): 167-71.

Rix, Robert. William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity. 2007. <Blake (2008)>

Reviews

§Rix, Robert W. “William Blake og lidenskabens uønskede engle.” Engleskrift. Ed. Annegret Friedrichsen and Charlotte Cappi Grunnet. Copenhagen, 2006. 44-60. In Danish.

§Roberts, Jonathan. Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. London: Continuum, 2010. New Directions in Religion and Literature. xiii, 127 pp.; ISBN: 9780826422330.

Roberts, Jonathan. William Blake’s Poetry: A Reader’s Guide. 2007. <Blake (2008)>

Review

Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F.S.A. 1869. B. 1869. C. 1869. <BB #2535A-C> D. §Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. [70] E. 1872. <BB #2535D>

§Rovira, James. Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety. London: Continuum, 2010. Continuum Literary Studies. 25 cm., viii, 184 pp.; ISBN: 9781441135599.

§Rowland, Christopher. “‘Would to God that all the Lord’s people were prophets’: Prophetic Voices.” Glass 19 (spring 2007): 30-40. <http://www.clsg.org/Glass_19_web.pdf>.

On the nature of Christian prophecy, beginning with William Blake, Joanna Southcott, and Richard Brothers.

§Rupert, Jane. “Reasoning and Knowing in Science and Poetry: Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, and William Blake.” Uneasy Relations: Reason in Literature and Science from Aristotle to Darwin and Blake. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2010. Marquette Studies in Philosophy, no. 69.

§Sabin, Stefana. Die Wahrheit der Literatur: Von William Blake bis Samuel Beckett. Marburg: Verlag LiteraturWissenschaft.de, 2010. ISBN: 9783936134223. In German.

§Sahm, Danielle. “Contrary to Expectations: Exploring Blake’s Contraries in David Almond’s Skellig.” Children’s Literature 38 (2010): 115-32.

§Saklofske, Jon. “Between History and Hope: The Urban Centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth.” City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City. Ed. Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

Saklofske, Jon. “Conscripting Imagination: The National ‘Duty’ of William Blake’s Art.” Romanticism on the Net (2007) <Blake (2010)§>

Concerns “William Blake’s creative and commercial positioning relative to late-eighteenth-century galleries, exhibition culture and artistic spectacle.”

§Saklofske, Jon A. H. “‘Enough! or Too Much’: The Functions of Media Interaction in William Blake’s Composite Designs.” McGill University PhD, 2003.

Sato, Hikari. “Erasmus Darwin to William Blake saiko [Erasmus Darwin and William Blake Reconsidered].” Choiki Bunka Kagaku Kiyo [Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (issued by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)] 14 (2009): 5-18. In Japanese.

§Sekulić, Isidora. “Vilijem Blejk: Vencanje Neba i Pakla [William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell].” Srpski književni glasnik 23.6 (16 Mar. 1928): 473-74. In Serbian.

§Shete, Michelle. “The Perceptive Poets: A Comparative Study of Jal lu’-Din Rín Rúmi, Sant Kabír, Matsuo Bashó and William Blake.” University of Wollongong [Australia] PhD, 2008.

The poets represent Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.

§Slavinski, Živorad Mihajlović. “Otkrovenje po Vilijamu Blejku [The Apocalypse According to William Blake].” Njihov onostrani život. Belgrade: [self-published], 1981. 99-106. In Serbian.

Smith, John Thomas. “William Blake.” Nollekens and His Times. 1828, 1829. <BB #2723A-B> C. 1917. <Blake (2000)> D. 1920. <BB #2723C> E. §N.p.: Reitell Press, 2010. 496 pp.; ISBN: 9781445574295.

§Stevanović, Svetislav. “O mistici i misticarima engleske Poezije [On Mysticism and Mystics of English Poetry].” Letopis Matice srpske 3 (June 1929): 376-98. In Serbian.

§Stevens, Clint. “Blake’s Buildings: Poetry and the Reshaping of Epistemology.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD, 2009. 261 pp. See DAI–A 70 (2009).

Story, Alfred T. William Blake: His Life Character and Genius. 1893, 1970. <BB #2772> C. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Legacy Reprint Series. 168 pp.; ISBN: 9781164059639.

§Suica, Nikola. “‘Knjiga o Jovu’ Viljema Blejka [‘The Book of Job’ by William Blake].” Gradac 18.95-97 (1990): 170. In Serbian.

*Suzuki, Masashi. “‘In Felpham I heard and saw the Visions of Albion’—Blake ni okeru vision to ‘shomotsu senso’ [‘In Felpham I heard and saw the Visions of Albion’: Vision and ‘the battle of the books’ in William Blake].” 19 Seikigaku Kenkyu [Study of Nineteenth-Century Scholarship (issued by the Institute for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Scholarship, Niigata University)] no. 2 (2009): 19-38. In Japanese.

§Swann, Karen. “Blake’s Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion.” A Companion to Romantic Poetry. Ed. Charles Mahoney. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. 538-53 (chapter 31).

Symons, Arthur. William Blake. 1907 …. <BB #2804> F. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2007. 23 cm., xviii, 433 pp.; ISBN: 9780548280980.

Tate Papers [Tate’s Online Research Journal]

Number 14 (autumn 2010)

<http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/10autumn>

It includes:

Blake’s 1809 Exhibition

All the papers were given at the symposium Appealing to the Public: William Blake in 1809, Tate Britain, Sept. 2009.

§Thanhouser, Ed. Urizen Wept: William Blake and the Sublime in Milton a Poem. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. ISBN: 9783639049824.

*Thompson, Jennifer. “Top 20 Political Songs: Jerusalem | William Blake | 1916: Poem transformed into unofficial national anthem.” New Statesman 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2010/03/blake-jerusalem-hymn-political>.

[Todd, Ruthven]. “Illuminated Poems.” The Tiger’s Eye on Arts and Letters [Westport, Connecticut] no. 1 (Oct. 1947): 72-76.

“Illuminated Poems” consists of reproductions on glossy paper of (1) Blake’s America copperplate fragment [71] with one sentence of text saying that “now, in 1947, an experimenting poet [Todd] and two artists [S. W. Hayter [72] and Joan Miró] have rediscovered Blake’s antique printing method and are making Illuminated Poems” (72); (2) “The Engraver for Bill Hayter,” with decorations which look like Aboriginal designs (73); (3) “The Glass Tower,” undecorated (74); (4) “An Alien World for Dolores Miró,” with curious unsigned pasted-on colored designs [by her father, Joan Miró] (75).

According to “The Tale of the Contents” (56), from which the title derives, Todd “is preparing a new book William Blake, The Mental Prince. [73] He has written a full account of Blake’s method that will be printed in a technical magazine.” [74]

Trilling, Daniel. “Perspectives: Jah Wobble, Musician, on William Blake.” New Statesman (2009) <Blake (2010)§, under Wobble>

An interview: “If Blake had been my age in the 1970s, he would have been on the punk scene, without a doubt.”

Tsuchiya, Shigeko. “Seisei suru vision—Blake no Milton [Vision and Revision: Blake’s Milton].” Jimbunken Kiyo [Journal of the Institute of Cultural Science, Chuo University] no. 67 (2010): 191-213. In Japanese.

§Vehlmann, Fabien. Green Manor no. 3: Fantaisies meurtrières. Illus. Denis Bodart. Marcinelle [Belgium]: Dupuis, 2005. In French. B. §“In the Head of William Blake.” Green Manor: The Inconvenience of Being Dead/Murderous Fancies. [Trans. Luke Spear.] Canterbury: Cinebook, 2008.

A comic book or “graphic novel.”

§Vidaković, Aleksandar. “Blejkova stogodisnjica [Blake’s Centenary].” Srpski književni glasnik 22.2 (16 Sept. 1927): 457-60. In Serbian.

Vine, Steve. William Blake. 2007. <Blake (2008)> B. §N.p.: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2010. 144 pp.; ISBN: 9788126913206.

§*Viscomi, Joseph. “Blake’s Illuminated Word.” Art, Word and Image: Two Thousand Years of Visual/Textual Interaction. Ed. John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas, and Michael Corris. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2010. 87-109.

W., R. G. [Richard Grant White]. “William Blake.” Galaxy 5, no. 5 (May 1868): 652-56.

A biographical account, partly a review of Swinburne; “Blake was crazy.”

Welch, Dennis M. “Essence, Gender, Race: William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” Studies in Romanticism 49.1 (spring 2010): 105-31.

§Wells, Michael. William Blake ;): Freewilly. Hebburn: Artisanine, 2009. 30 cm., 70 leaves, “plastic laminated covers and spiral binding”; ISBN: 9780956284853.

White, Helen C. The Mysticism of William Blake. 1927, 1964. <BB #2950> C. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2008. 6.2" x 9", 276 pp.; ISBN: 9781436680523.

§Williams, John. “The Place of William Blake in the Relationship of Romanticism to the Growth of Eighteenth Century Radical Thought in England.” University of York DPhil, 1975.

Williams, Nicholas M. “Blake Dead or Alive.” Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009) <Blake (2010)§>

About “how Blake points to the problem of perceiving motion” (498 [abstract]).

Williams, Nicholas M. “‘The Sciences of Life’: Living Form in William Blake and Aldous Huxley.” Romanticism (2009) <Blake (2010)§>

“Huxley steers a surprising course back to Blake as a catalysing figure” (43).

§Woolford, John. “Christina Rossetti and the ‘Rossetti Manuscript’ of William Blake.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ns 18 (fall 2009): 72-84.

*Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Blake. 1929, 1969, 1972. <BB #3017> D. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2003. 8.2" x 11", 468 pp.; ISBN: 9780766128521. E. §[Whitefish]: Kessinger Publishing, 2010. 8.5" x 11", 468 pp.; ISBN: 9781161362381.

§*Yoder, R. Paul. The Narrative Structure of William Blake’s Poem Jerusalem: A Revisionist Interpretation. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. 24 cm., v, 179 pp.; ISBN: 9780773436404.

Foreword by Nelson Hilton.

§Zakai, Avihu. “Religion and the Newtonian Universe.” Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning. London: T. & T. Clark, 2010. Chapter 5.

Includes a section on “Blake’s ‘Contempt & Abhorrence’ of Bacon, Locke, and Newton.”

Division II: Blake’s Circle

Barry, James (1741–1806)

Cumberland, George (1754–1848)

Lewina the Maid of Snowdon. A Tale (1793)

A Poem on the Landscapes of Great-Britain (1793)

Review

“Lewina, the Maid of Snowdon, a Tale, and a Poem on the Landscapes of Great Britain, by George Cumberland,” are productions of very different merits. The former is simple, and occasionally pathetic and interesting, but frequently insipid and unpoetical. The latter, which is far from being faultless in point of diction and rhyme, discovers considerable powers of description, and liveliness of fancy; and shews that the author possesses a sensible, cultivated mind. With greater attention to correctness, and to avoid too familiar and prosaic phraseology, the author may rise to eminence in descriptive poetry. These poems are elegantly printed, and are accompanied with etchings by the author, from his own original drawings. (271-72)

Palmer, Samuel (1805–81)

Stedman, John Gabriel (1744-97)