Table of Contents:
Introductory Essay
Division I: William Blake
Division II: William Blake’s Circle
Barry, James
Basire, James, II
Boehme, Jacob
Darwin, Erasmus
Flaxman, Ann
Flaxman, John
Fuseli, Henry
Gibson, John
Johnson, Joseph
Linnell, John
Marsh, John
Montgomery, James
Moravianism
Phillips, Richard
Romney, George
Society of Antiquaries
Stedman, John Gabriel
Swedenborg, Emmanuel
Thornton, Robert John
Trusler, John
Introductory Essay: Transitions
It is an intimidating prospect to follow the late G. E. Bentley, Jr., in compiling even a portion of this year’s checklist. As readers of this journal well know, Bentley’s impact on the study of Blake was profound and places him in the lofty empyrean inhabited by Geoffrey Keynes, S. Foster Damon, Mona Wilson, Northrop Frye, and David V. Erdman. In the words of David Worrall, “As Bentley realized a long time ago, and the rest of us somewhat later, the study of Blake is a uniquely complex activity because the abundance, technical complexity and material diversity of Blake’s original artifacts is combined with a dearth of ‘literary’ information about his life.”David Worrall, rev. of G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books Supplement, Blake 32.2 (fall 1998): 47. In A Blake Bibliography (co-authored with Martin K. Nurmi), Blake Books, Blake Books Supplement, and “William Blake and His Circle,” Bentley brought bibliography on both Blake and scholarship about him to its present state of precision and comprehensiveness. In Blake Records, he provided scholars with an easy means of accessing all the materially known facts of Blake’s life and his contemporary reception. He edited important facsimiles that offered painstaking transcriptions of Tiriel and Vala, or The Four Zoas, and his William Blake’s Writings vied with Erdman’s Complete Poetry and Prose as the most authoritative letterpress edition of Blake’s literary works. His scholarship was frightfully prolific, even toward the end of his life, and it covered not only Blake but also a wide range of writers and publishers connected to him, including George Cumberland, the Edwardses of Halifax, and Thomas Macklin. The highest praise may be the simplest: G. E. Bentley, Jr., helped us understand Blake better.
When Bentley succeeded D. W. Dörrbecker on the checklist in the summer 1994 issue of Blake, it was simply a recognition of his status as the indispensable bibliographer of Blake. For many years, however, the checklist had been a kind of countervoice to Bentley’s work. The first appeared three years after Bentley and Nurmi’s 1964 A Blake Bibliography, and its purpose, then and now, was to provide scholars with a readily accessible list of recent publications on Blake, a task for which Bentley’s more ponderous print works were ill suited. In the first Blake Newsletter, Amy Tsuji compiled the initial list, appropriately entitled “Recent Blake Publications,” which contained eleven articles, seven reviews, and one reproduction published between January 1966 and May 1967.Amy Tsuji, “Recent Blake Publications,” Blake 1.1 (June 1967): 2-4. Morton Paley, with the assistance of Karen Walowit, compiled the second list in 1968, altering the title to “A Checklist of Blake Publications, June ’67 to May ’68”; it listed three bibliographies, twenty-four articles and reviews, and eleven books.Morton D. Paley, with the assistance of Karen Walowit, “A Checklist of Blake Publications, June ’67 to May ’68,” Blake 2.1 (June 1968): 6-8, 14. In the following eight years, both the number of works on Blake and the number of scholars who contributed to, added to, or assisted with the checklist grew immensely. The latter included Sharon Flitterman, David V. Erdman, Charles Ryskamp, Roger R. Easson, Laura Gorham, Karen Walowit, Dolores Jordan, Gregory Candela, Marta Field, Foster Foreman, Susan Grossman, David Wyatt, Roberta Goetsch, Kenji Nakamura, Andre Le Vot, Michael A. Keller, Thomas Connolly, and Ron Taylor. By the time Thomas L. Minnick began his tenure in 1976, the checklist had grown to include seven bibliographies and bibliographical essays; nine editions, facsimiles, and reproductions; ninety-seven critical studies; and thirty-six reviews. Dörrbecker joined Minnick the following year, and their collaboration lasted until 1984. They made many contributions to the shape of the list: formally adding Blake’s “circle” to the title and scope of the checklist, providing increasingly detailed annotations, and consistently collaborating with scholars outside the English-speaking world,Thomas L. Minnick, with the assistance of Detlef W. Dörrbecker and Kazumitsu Watarai, “Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Recent Scholarship,” Blake 13.2 (fall 1979): 91-99 (and 14.2 [fall 1980]: 85-93). which had been done sporadically before.Kenji Nakamura and Andre Le Vot had contributed Japanese and French items respectively to “A Checklist of Blake Scholarship, October 1970–March 1972,” Blake 5.3 (winter 1971–72): 214-19. After Minnick departed the list, Dörrbecker continued these developments, and his six checklists were amazing achievements of comprehensiveness (both in scope and in the detailed annotations) for a largely pre-digital age. As Bentley himself described these efforts,
When Bentley assumed the checklist, he continued Minnick’s and Dörrbecker’s practice of collaboration, working with scholars such as Keiko Aoyama, Hikari Sato, Ching-erh Chang, Li-Ping Geng, and Fernando Castanedo. But he also made the checklist very much his own. He imported the organizational schema of Blake Books, including the focus on Blake’s own productions and the books owned by Blake, neither of which had been considered by previous lists, and he included additions and corrections to the historical material documented in his other work. This transformation of the checklist had the twofold benefit of standardizing Blake bibliography across its two major platforms and of allowing Bentley to keep his print work up to date with new discoveries and scholarship.
The annual checklists became the basis, moreover, of what Bentley would eventually entitle William Blake and His Circle: Publications and Discoveries from 1992. Alongside his Sale Catalogues of Blake’s Works, it was published digitally in 2010 and housed on the G. E. Bentley: Blake Collection site at the University of Toronto’s E. J. Pratt Library. The digital medium allowed Bentley to update these works periodically, further tightening the relationship between the checklist and his large bibliographical works. The format also enabled him to publish the whole of his bibliographical findings after the editors of Blake were forced to concede in 2014 that “the invaluable Bentley checklist has grown to the point where we are unable to publish it in its entirety.”G. E. Bentley, Jr., with the assistance of Hikari Sato and Fernando Castanedo, “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2013,” Blake 48.1 (summer 2014), editors’ notes. Blake offered Bentley similar options for the second edition of Blake Records. He initially published a series of addenda and corrigenda between 2004 and 2009 in the pages of the journal, after which his additions and corrections became part of a running list on the Blake website.
For almost a decade, then, these hybrid resources served as living repositories of knowledge about Blake, allowing scholars to keep their fingers on the pulse of the latest discoveries and scholarship. With Bentley’s passing, however, the closest things we have had to what Worrall termed a “Superbibliography”Worrall 46. have come to a state of completion. The last update to William Blake and His Circle occurred in July 2017; the Sale Catalogues, May 2017; and Blake Records, June 2017. I have been assured by both the Pratt Library and Blake that each remains committed to maintaining Bentley’s works for the foreseeable future, but there are no plans, at least at present, to update them further.
A Threefold Vision
Thus, Blake bibliography enters a new era. Envisioning this moment in his final checklist, Dörrbecker gave warning to those who would follow Bentley:
Perhaps heeding this advice, the editors of Blake have now divided the subjects of the checklist into three more manageable categories: editions, scholarship, and biography (this section); music; and art and exhibitions.
In accordance with this new division of material, the list of works I have compiled with the generous assistance of Fernando Castanedo and Hikari Sato will not be as broad as Bentley’s, but, for the sake of continuity, I have done my best to follow the organizational structure that he created, unless there was a clear reason not to. I am not noting references to Blake in popular magazines (online or print), such as the Huffington Post, though I will include reviews found in publications such as the Times Literary Supplement. I have followed Bentley in including references to original editions, facsimiles, reprints, translations, collections, and selections; reproductions of drawings, paintings, and engravings; bibliographies and catalogues; and biographies, criticism (articles and monographs), and book reviews. If and when a new book owned by Blake appears, I will note the article or book that describes it and highlight the discovery in the section “Discoveries and Major Publications.” For this year’s checklist, at least, I have focused on contemporary scholarly work and have made no effort, as Bentley did so tirelessly, to find undocumented material from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, or to correct or emend his substantial bibliographical record.
I have added a section entitled “Digital Resources,” which will include material unique to digital platforms (but not e-books or articles and reviews published in online journals, which are included under the more traditional heading of “Criticism, Biography, and Reviews”). Despite his comprehensiveness, Bentley did not always engage with the content of some digital projects related to Blake or the tools they offer. Perhaps the most significant on this front are the postings on Hell’s Printing Press (formerly The Cynic Sang), the blog of Blake and the William Blake Archive. While the entries are usually short, they also contain many important reflections on digital editing, digital humanities, and Blakeana. 2017 also saw the Blake Archive’s rerelease of its Lightbox tool, originally created by William Shaw, which provides a digital workspace for Blake’s images. Another digital resource that Bentley acknowledged but did not engage with in detail is Jason Whittaker’s Zoamorphosis, an important blog on Blake’s contemporary reception. Given the number of postings since the creation of these sites, for this year’s checklist I will simply highlight significant postings from 2017. Also noteworthy in this year of transitions: Mark Lussier and Ron Broglio, with the technical assistance of Jim O’Donnell, transferred the digital concordance of David V. Erdman’s The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1982, rev. 1988), originally created by Nelson Hilton at the University of Georgia, to Arizona State University, thus giving one of the oldest digital tools for the study of Blake new life. A much newer digital resource is William Blake’s Cottage Virtual Tour, a delightful virtual tour of Blake’s cottage in Felpham, augmented with images of his art, biographical information, and music by Lucien Posman. This was created by Rachel Searle, with Jason Hedges and Naomi Billingsley, of the Big Blake Project, based in Bognor Regis.
My definition of Blake’s circle will largely correspond to Bentley’s. That said, for Emmanuel Swedenborg and the New Jerusalem Church, the Joseph Johnson circle (especially Mary Wollstonecraft and Erasmus Darwin), the Royal Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, the Moravians known to have associated with Blake’s mother, Catherine, and her first husband, Thomas Armitage, the Methodist leaders known to the relatives of Thomas Butts, and other figures or institutions that are themselves the subject of substantial research, I will record works focused only on the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in contexts relevant to Blake. I have also included writing on Blake scholars, such as Geoffrey Keynes, Alfred Kazin, and the Gilchrist family. Needless to say, ongoing historical scholarship, like Martin Myrone’s “William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective,” with its “Biographical Dictionary of Students of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving Who Attended the Royal Academy Schools, 1774–85” (see Blake 51.2), vastly expands our notion of Blake’s circle.
I have followed Bentley’s practice of listing major issues of academic journals or collections of essays together under their titles, but to facilitate finding works by individual scholars I have, unlike Bentley, cross-referenced these works under the names of the authors as well. I have followed a similar practice with regard to reviews of works focused primarily on Blake. In a few cases, where a review appeared in a journal like Blake, this has meant that it is referenced three times (under the reviewer’s name, the name of the author or editor of the book being reviewed, and the journal), but I think the redundancy can be excused by the ease of finding a review in its different contexts and categories. Given the decline of author-based studies, I have also tried to include works that have substantial discussions of Blake. Of course, “substantial” is a subjective term, but I have referenced discussions that go beyond a passing reference or beyond including Blake in a list of other authors. I have not included entries on Blake found in general encyclopedias or Wikipedia, but I will include entries from academic encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, companions, and the like. I have not listed e-book versions of scholarly titles offered in other formats. Reprints are included if they are offered by a publisher of note (such as Routledge Library Editions or Princeton Legacy Library, which this year reprinted David V. Erdman and John E. Grant’s important collection, Blake’s Visionary Forms Dramatic). I have noted exhibition catalogues when they contain scholarly essays, but I leave descriptions of their exhibitions to my colleague Luisa Calè. I have also discontinued Bentley’s practice of marking works with illustrations by Blake, since most studies today include relevant illustrations or point the reader to where such images may be seen.
Unlike Bentley’s sometimes evaluative annotations, I have tried to limit my commentary to describing what aspect of Blake is being discussed when it is not clear from the title. That said, I do think it appropriate to highlight major discoveries and publications, which I do in the section below. I apologize in advance to those scholars whose work I have either overlooked or mischaracterized in any way, and I welcome e-mails notifying me of scholarship or offering ideas to make this section of the checklist more useful to our community. For titles in Romance languages, the annotations are those of Fernando Castanedo; for those in Japanese, they are by Hikari Sato. I sincerely thank them both for their assistance and contributions.
Discoveries and Major Publications
The authenticity of a newly discovered version of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep (held in a private collection) remains in dispute. Martin Butlin believes it to be by Blake, while David Bindman, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi dissent (see Blake 51.1 and 51.2).Butlin and Bindman have seen the watercolor in person; Essick and Viscomi have seen a digital copy.
The catalogue for the William Blake and the Age of Aquarius exhibition at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University contains many essays on Blake and his reception in the radical political and artistic communities in the 1960s and 1970s, and is lavishly illustrated. Stephen Eisenman sketches Blake’s career and his influence on figures such as Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Seliger, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Jim Morrison, Kenneth Patchen, and Diane Arbus. Elizabeth Ferrell examines Blake’s influence on “San Francisco’s alternative communities of the 1950s and 1960s”Elizabeth Ferrell, “William Blake on the West Coast,” William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, ed. Stephen F. Eisenman (Princeton: Princeton University Press and the Block Museum of Art, 2017) 102. (Michael McClure, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wallace Berman, Robert Duncan and Jess, and Helen Adam). Mark Crosby has two essays: the first situates Blake among other millenarian prophets of his era, and the second examines Maurice Sendak’s enthusiasm for Blake. Jacob Henry Leveton argues that abstraction in both Blake and artists like “Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Ad Reinhardt, and Sam Francis”Jacob Henry Leveton, “William Blake and Art against Surveillance,” William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, ed. Stephen F. Eisenman (Princeton: Princeton University Press and the Block Museum of Art, 2017) 141. worked against state surveillance. John P. Murphy chronicles Aethelred and Alexandra Eldridge’s Church of William Blake in Golgonooza, Ohio. W. J. T. Mitchell closes the collection with a reflection on Blake’s relationship to his own time and our own.
Mark Crosby’s special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly comprises papers and other contributions from the 2013 symposium William Blake’s Manuscripts, held at the Huntington Library. Joseph Viscomi analyzes Blake’s signature on the large color prints, arguing that he signed the prints when they were sold and not when they were created. Alexander S. Gourlay details Blake’s relationship to writing engraving and his practice of writing backwards. Angus Whitehead delineates the importance of Blake’s 25 November 1825 letter to John Linnell in terms of both his printing practices and his relationship to Linnell. Fernando Castanedo considers the allusions to Samuel Johnson for dating Island and suggests the possibility that it was written for Blake’s dying brother, Robert. Luisa Calè gives a powerful account of the artistry and subversion of print stability in the engravings to Night Thoughts that Blake put to multiple uses. Wayne C. Ripley shows how Blake’s later mythological language in The Four Zoas manuscript drew on John Gambold’s 1754 Moravian hymnal. Rachel Lee offers an account of the Blake Archive’s efforts to edit the manuscript of Vala, or The Four Zoas. Finally, Morris Eaves ruminates on how editorial practices “help to reveal the broader outlines of perception, control, desire, and memory that make editing a paradigm of human effort.”Morris Eaves, “The Editorial Void: Notes toward a Study of Oblivion,” Huntington Library Quarterly 80.3 (autumn 2017): 517.
There were many important articles on Blake in 2017. In addition to his final additions to William Blake and His Circle, Sale Catalogues of Blake’s Works, and Blake Records, Bentley published eleven of them. In the most noteworthy, he details the discovery of Blake’s illuminated books in the 1820 sale catalogue of Edward Evans, first mentioned in last year’s checklist. He also wrote a series of articles about some of the major Blake collections of the twentieth century (Paul Mellon, the Rosenbach, and the Rosenwald). His article on Catherine Blake includes a useful catalogue of works “‘possibly’ or ‘probably’” colored by her. Paul Miner, who also passed away in 2017 (see Sarah Jones’s remembrance at Hell’s Printing Press), published two articles, analyzing Blake’s rewritings of “wild” Shakespeare and his references to Joshua Reynolds. As noted above, Martin Myrone offers a careful study of Blake’s time as a student at the Royal Academy, and he includes a very useful biographical dictionary of Blake’s contemporary students. In a series of articles, Fernando Castanedo presents an impressive body of evidence for dating An Island in the Moon. Wayne C. Ripley records two newspaper advertisements associated with Blake’s father in the mid-1770s.See Keri Davies’s correction of Ripley’s claim that they were posted by James Blake himself and that they reveal information about Blake’s family, and Ripley’s response (both in Blake 51.4). Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook use Blake’s concept of vortices in an examination of climate change, and Colebrook references Blake’s practices as an engraver in an essay on the Anthropocene.
In terms of pedagogical resources, Brendan Cooper’s William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Student Guide has several short chapters (including one on the designs) aimed at introducing undergraduates to both Blake and the songs that would work well in an introduction to literature course. Listed briefly in last year’s checklist, Kathryn S. Freeman’s A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake is a new dictionary of Blake’s mythology and his most important biographical connections that (unlike S. Foster Damon’s A Blake Dictionary) references key scholarly works for further reading, which should prove useful to students and scholars alike. Finally, the “Teaching Romanticism” series at Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 includes three short articles on teaching Blake’s relationship to Milton.
Blake figured in one chapter or more of several newly recorded doctoral dissertations.
Among work on Blake’s circle, Adam Komisaruk and Allison Dushane’s two-volume edition of Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden will be a very useful resource for Blake scholars. It offers the “first lifetime editions” of The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, providing a detailed introduction to Darwin and the production history of the text and engravings. It reproduces all the illustrations associated with the work, including, of course, Blake’s two engravings after Fuseli and his four engravings of the Portland Vase.See Robert N. Essick, William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations: A Catalogue and Study of the Plates Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) 45-49. Claudia Brink and Lucinda Martin have published two volumes in German on Jacob Boehme that are lavishly illustrated with images not only from Boehme’s own books but also from the wider print and visual culture of seventeenth-century mysticism. In a 2013 essay noted only in passing in a previous checklist, Keri Davies recovers Emmanuel Swedenborg’s early relationship with Moravianism and Methodism in the 1740s.
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Abbreviations
Division I: William Blake
Part I: Blake’s Writings
Section A: Original Editions, Facsimiles, Reprints, and Translations
The Book of Thel (1789)
Editions
The Book of Thel [C].
William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
The Book of Thel [E]. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
The Book of Thel [K]. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
The Book of Thel [M]. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
The Book of Thel [a]. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
Jerusalem (c. 1804–20)
Edition
Jerusalem [F].
William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–93?)
Editions
El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno [H]. Edición bilingüe de Fernando Castanedo. 2002, 2007, 2010, 2012 (4th ed., revised), 2014. <
Blake (2003, 2014, 2017)> F. 2017. In Spanish, with facing English for
Marriage.
Il matrimonio del paradiso e dell’inferno. Traduzione e postfazione di Maurizio Costantino. Trieste: Asterios Editore, 2013. 13 x 17 cm., 104 pp., ISBN: 9788895146935. In Italian, with facing English for Marriage.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
Edition
Canti dell’innocenza e dell’esperienza: che mostrano i due contrari stati dell’anima umana. A cura di Roberto Rossi Testa con uno scritto di T. S. Eliot. 1997, 2001. <
Blake (2007)> C. 2009. <
WBHC> D. 2012. E. 2014. A color facsimile in English and Italian.
Tiriel (c. 1789)
Edition
Tiriel.
William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017.
VALA, or The Four Zoas (c. 1796–1807)
Editions
I quattro Zoa di William Blake. I tormenti dell’amore e della gelosia nella morte e nel giudizio finale di Albione, l’antico uomo. Trans. Salvo Pitruzzella. Capo d’Orlando: Fondazione Famiglia Piccolo di Calanovella, 2007. 224 pp., ISBN: 9788889783160. In Italian.
VALA, or The Four Zoas. William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017. As of Dec. 2017, “with enlargements and basic bibliographical information but without transcriptions or illustration descriptions.”
Section B: Collections and Selections
§ Libri profetici. Introduzione, traduzione e note di Roberto Sanesi. 1980, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1997, 1997 <BBS p. 157, Blake (1999, 2007), compiled in WBHC> G. Milano: Bompiani, 2003. ISBN: 9788845253591. H. Milano: Bompiani, 2005. I. Milano: SE, 2006. 180 pp., ISBN: 9788877106810. J. Milano: SE, 2012. 180 pp., ISBN: 9788877109552. In Italian.
§ Il matrimonio del cielo e dell’inferno. Canti dell’innocenza e altri poemi. Trans. E. Dodsworth. Lanciano: Carabba, 2011. 150 pp., ISBN: 9788863441741. In Italian.
§ Poesie. Introduzione di Sergio Perosa, cura e traduzione di Giacomo Conserva. 1976, 1991, 2003 <BBS p. 162, Blake (1999, 2007, 2011), compiled in WBHC> D. Newton Compton, 2005. Grandi tascabili economici Newton. E. De Agostini, 2005.<Blake (2011)> lists this as a separate work, but it is the Newton collection reproduced in tiny format as part of a series called “I tesori della poesia in miniatura” (thanks to Fernando Castanedo for this information). F. Newton Compton, 2007. G. Newton Compton, 2012. Grandi tascabili economici Newton. In Italian.
§ Le porte del paradiso. Introduzione di Italo Valent. Traduzione e note di Rosa Tavelli. Torino: Aragno, 2005. ISBN: 9788884190908. A collection including poetry and letters and reproducing engravings. In Italian.
William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>
In 2017, the archive published editions of
The Book of Thel (C, E, K, M, a),
Jerusalem (F),
Tiriel,
VALA, or
The Four Zoas, and the watercolor illustrations for Edward Young’s
Night Thoughts. It also released digitized back issues of
Blake (1970–79) and launched a new Lightbox tool.
Review
Anon. “Digital Projects: The Blake Archive.”
Wordsworth Circle 48.4 (autumn 2017): 230-34. Includes excerpts from articles published in
Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (summer 1999) <
Blake (2000)> by Mary Lynn Johnson and Karl Kroeber, as well as from the archive’s own updates.
Part II: Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings
§ Di Giglio, Carmen Margherita. La porta alchemica—Poemetto esoterico (Con illustrazioni di William Blake). Milano: Nemo Editrice, 2015 (e-book). A poem with illustrations by Blake. In Italian.
Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors
DANTE, Divine Comedy (1824–27)
Edition
William Blake: Los dibujos para la Divina Comedia
de Dante. Ed. Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. 2014. Folio, 324 pp. <
Blake (2015, 2016)> In Spanish. Also available in German, English, French, and Italian. B.
William Blake: Les dessins pour la Divine Comédie
de Dante. 2017. 8º (17.2 x 24 cm.), 464 pp.; ISBN: 9783836568623. In French. Also available in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Reviews
Calè, Luisa. See
Blake 51.3 in Part VI.
Lapaque, Sébastien. “William Blake et Dante: la rencontre de deux génies.”
Le Figaro (
Le Figaro Litteraire) 14 Dec. 2017: 8. In French.
YOUNG, Edward, Night Thoughts (1795–97)
Edition
Illustrations to Edward Young’s “Night Thoughts.” William Blake Archive. Ed. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 2017. The 537 watercolor illustrations.
Part III: Commercial Engravings
Section A: Illustrations of Individual Authors
Bible
Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826, 1874)
Edition
Il libro di Giobbe: accompagnato da “The Book of Job” di William Blake. Milano: SE, 2009. 178 pp., ISBN: 9788877107770. In Italian.
Part IV: Bibliographies and Catalogues
Section A: Bibliographies
[cross-listing articles with substantial bibliographical content]
Bentley, G. E., Jr. Addenda to G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records, 2nd ed. Final update June 2017.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Blake’s Shadow at Work. Catherine Blake’s Assistance to Her Husband.” Includes a list of works “‘possibly’ or ‘probably’” colored by Catherine Blake. See Bentley, “Blake’s Shadow,” in Part VI.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Colored Copies of Blair’s Grave (1808, 1813): A Census.” See Blake 50.4.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Rosenbach and Blake.” Includes a catalogue of “every contemporary Blake that Rosenbach is known to have dealt with.” See Blake 51.3.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. Sale Catalogues of Blake’s Works, 1791–2017: A Catalogue Somewhat Raisonné. Final update May 2017.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake and His Circle: Publications and Discoveries from 1992. Final update July 2017.
Myrone, Martin. “William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective.” Includes “A Biographical Dictionary of Students of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving Who Attended the Royal Academy Schools, 1774–85.” See Blake 51.2.
Section B: Catalogues
Eisenman, Stephen F., ed. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius. The catalogue for the exhibition at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 23 September 2017–11 March 2018. See Eisenman, WBAA, in Part VI.
Hastings, Gerard. “The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Vision of Blake, Palmer and Calvert.” The Romantic Impulse: British Neo-Romantic Artists at Home and Abroad, 1935–1959. London: Osborne Samuel, 2017. Chapter in the catalogue for the exhibition at the Osborne Samuel Gallery (London), 25 May–23 June 2017.
Windle, John. William Blake: Always in Paradise: A Catalogue of Artwork and Books by and about Blake and His Circle. San Francisco: John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2017. Catalogue 65.
Windle, John. The William Blake Gallery: Dreams and Visions. San Francisco: John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2017. The catalogue for the exhibition that ran 8 September–22 December 2017. Includes an image of Blake’s unconfirmed signature on the title page of John Quincy’s English Dispensatory, 9th ed. (London, 1733).
Windle, John. The William Blake Gallery: William Blake in Color: Plates from the Illuminated Books of William Blake by the Trianon Press (1951–1987). San Francisco: John Windle, Antiquarian Bookseller, 2017. The catalogue for the exhibition that ran 11 May–28 July 2017.
Part V: Digital Resources
Concordance to The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman. Originally created by Nelson Hilton at the University of Georgia. In 2017, Mark Lussier and Ron Broglio, with the assistance of Jim O’Donnell, transferred it to Arizona State University.
Hell’s Printing Press: The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly [formerly The Cynic Sang].
Posts on editing and technical issues:
Editing the images and text of the VALA, or The Four Zoas manuscript (see also Rachel Lee, “Editing in Technicolor,” HLQ 80.3 in Part VI):
Editing and transcribing marginalia:
How tagging images creates interpretative meaning (in the cases of “emotions” and “lunging”):
Problems of transcribing and coding materially damaged texts (in the case of the 23 Sept. 1800 letter to Butts):
Posts on Blakeana:
On the fortieth anniversary of Blake Books:
Posts on Blake scholars:
An interview with Naomi Billingsley:
A remembrance of Paul Miner:
Tools and resources:
Searle, Rachel, with Jason Hedges and Naomi Billingsley. William Blake’s Cottage Virtual Tour. A virtual reality tour inside and outside Blake’s cottage in Felpham, augmented with images of his art and key biographical information.
Whittaker, Jason. Zoamorphosis/The Blake 2.0 Blog: William Blake in Art, Music, Film, and Literature.
Significant postings include:
Part VI: Criticism, Biography, and Reviews
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y
A
Altizer, Thomas J. J. “The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake.” Satan and Apocalypse and Other Essays in Political Theology. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781438466736. 47-56. B. Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art. Ed. Gregory Erickson and Bernard Schweizer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. ISBN: 9783110555943. 51-60. An earlier version of the chapter, entitled “The Revolutionary Vision of William Blake,” appeared in the Journal of Religious Ethics 37.1 (2009) <Blake (2010)>.
Anon. Rev. of the William Blake Archive. See William Blake Archive in Part I, Section B.
Antonielli, Arianna. “‘As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various) So all Religions’: On the Philosophical and Religious Underpinnings of William Blake’s Cosmogony.” LEA: Lingue e letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente 6 (2017): 329-43.
Apesos, Anthony. “Taking Dictation: Plates 5 and 10 of Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80.1 (2017): 159-72.
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Bates, Brian. “Milton’s Satan, Sin, Death, and Gothic Romanticism.” See “Teaching Romanticism XVIII: Miltonic Legacies.”
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Blake and the Paranormal.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 57-62.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Blake’s Careless Archers.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 52-57.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Blake’s Shadow at Work. Catherine Blake’s Assistance to Her Husband.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 38-46. Includes a list of works “‘possibly’ or ‘probably’” colored by Catherine Blake.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Colored Copies of Blair’s Grave (1808, 1813): A Census.” See Blake 50.4.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Edwardses of Halifax: The Making and Selling of Beautiful Books in London and Halifax, 1749–1826. 2015. <Blake (2016)>
Reviews
Graff, Ann-Barbara.
University of Toronto Quarterly 86.3 (summer 2017): 232-33.
Rovira, James. See
Blake 51.1.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Good Evans. William Blake and the Evans Family of Print Sellers.” Notes and Queries 64.4 (Dec. 2017): 572-83.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “The Growth of the Rosenwald Blake Collection.” Notes and Queries 64.4 (Dec. 2017): 583-89.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Paul Mellon as a Blake Collector.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 62-72.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “Rosenbach and Blake.” See Blake 51.3.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “William Blake and Richard Edwards as Joint Venturers in Young’s Night Thoughts (1797).” Notes and Queries 64.4 (Dec. 2017): 552-56.
Bentley, G. E., Jr. “William Blake and the Sports of Innocence.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 47-52.
Bentley, G. E., Jr., with the Assistance of Hikari Sato, Li-Ping Geng, and Fernando Castanedo. “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016.” See Blake 51.1.
§ Berkebile, Jennifer. “A Study in Songs: Comparative Analyses of Twentieth-Century Settings of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Selections from Vaughan Williams’s Ten Blake Songs, Britten’s Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, and Rochberg’s Blake Songs: for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble.” DMA diss., University of West Virginia, 2017.
Bermejo, Álvaro. “William Blake: Apocalipsis Tántrico.” Qué leer no. 227 (2017): 38-43. In Spanish.
§ Billingsley, Naomi. “Citizens of ‘London’ as Members of Christ’s Divine Body in William Blake’s Biblical Illustrations.” Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion. Ed. Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen, and Chloë Reddaway. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2017. xxii, 314 pp., 32 plates, 23 cm., ISBN: 9781784536619. 89-101.
Bindman, David. “Adam and Eve Asleep: A Dissent.” See Blake 51.2.
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
For the inclusion of back issues of the journal in the
William Blake Archive in 2017, see
William Blake Archive in Part I, Section B.
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Volume 50, number 4 (spring 2017)
Article
Robert N. Essick. “
Blake in the Marketplace, 2016.”
Reviews
Marsha Keith Schuchard.
Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century. 8 pars.
Alexander S. Gourlay.
Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. 6 pars.
Sibylle Erle.
Roger Lüdeke, Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake: Ästhetische Souveränität und politische Imagination. 19 pars.
Minute Particular
G. E. Bentley, Jr. “
Colored Copies of Blair’s Grave (1808, 1813): A Census.”
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Volume 51, number 1 (summer 2017)
Article
G. E. Bentley, Jr. “
William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2016.”
Minute Particulars
Martin Butlin. “
Blake’s Unfinished Series of Illustrations to Paradise Lost for John Linnell: An Addition.” 10 pars.
Wayne C. Ripley. “
Two Newly Discovered Advertisements Posted by William Blake’s Father.” 8 pars.
Reviews
James Rovira.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Edwardses of Halifax: The Making and Selling of Beautiful Books in London and Halifax, 1749–1826. 7 pars.
Andrew Lincoln.
Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake. 18 pars.
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Volume 51, number 2 (fall 2017)
Remembrance
Karen Mulhallen. “
Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr., 23 August 1930–31 August 2017.”
Article
Martin Myrone. “
William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective.” Includes a very useful “Biographical Dictionary of Students of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving Who Attended the Royal Academy Schools, 1774–85.”
Discussion
David Bindman. “
Adam and Eve Asleep: A Dissent.” 6 pars.
Robert N. Essick. “
A Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep.” 6 pars.
Joseph Viscomi. “
A Newly Discovered Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep. 6 pars.
Martin Butlin. “
The ‘Linnell’ Adam and Eve Asleep: The Case for the Defense.” 12 pars.
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Volume 51, number 3 (winter 2017–18)
News
“
Changes to the Masthead.”
Article
G. E. Bentley, Jr. “
Rosenbach and Blake.” Bentley’s last article for
Blake. It includes a catalogue of “every contemporary Blake that Rosenbach is known to have dealt with.”
Reviews
Kristin M. Girten.
Opera Omaha and the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Stranger from Paradise. 8 pars.
R. Paul Yoder.
Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake. 9 pars.
Luisa Calè.
Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli, William Blake: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy. 8 pars.
Poem
Sharon Portnoff. “
My Poison Tree.”
Boyles, Helen. Romanticism and Methodism: The Problem of Religious Enthusiasm. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. vii, 206 pp., 24 cm., ISBN: 9781472485281. Slight engagement with Blake in the introduction and conclusion.
Brand, Cassie. Rev. of Michael Farrell, Blake and the Methodists. See Farrell.
Browne, Sharmaine Eunice. “Abject Figures in the Margins: The I of the Other in William Blake.” “Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology.” PhD diss., City University of New York, 2017. 94-146.
Bundock, Chris. Rev. of Marilyn Butler, Mapping Mythologies. See Butler.
Butler, Marilyn. “Blake.” Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxv, 214 pp., 24 cm., ISBN: 9781107116382. 162-88.
Review
Bundock, Chris.
BARS Review 49 (2017): 5 pars.
Butlin, Martin. “Blake’s Unfinished Series of Illustrations to Paradise Lost for John Linnell: An Addition.” See Blake 51.1.
Butlin, Martin. “The ‘Linnell’ Adam and Eve Asleep: The Case for the Defense.” See Blake 51.2.
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Calè, Luisa. “Blake, Young, and the Poetics of the Composite Page.” See HLQ 80.3.
Calè, Luisa. Rev. of William Blake: The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, ed. Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. See Blake 51.3.
Calè, Luisa. “William Blakes Nachtgedanken: Zwischen Buch, Körper und Kosmos.” See Boehme in Division II.
Castanedo, Fernando. “Blake: Milton Had ‘Odd Feelings’—Rather Than None.” Notes and Queries 64.4 (Dec. 2017): 549–50.
Castanedo, Fernando. “‘Mr Jacko’: Prince-Riding in Blake’s ‘An Island in the Moon.’” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 27-29.
Castanedo, Fernando. “On Blinks and Kisses, Monkeys and Bears: Dating William Blake’s An Island in the Moon.” See HLQ 80.3.
Catană, Adela Livia. “Songs of Innocence and [sic] Experience: A Neoplatonic Approach.” Signs of Identity: Literary Constructs and Discursive Practices. Ed. Emilia Parpală. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 9781527503151. 55-65.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. William Blake. 1910 …. <BB #1381, BBS p. 436, Blake (2003, 2013, 2015), compiled in WBHC> P. Traducción de Victoria León Varela, prólogo de Antonio Rivero Taravillo. Sevilla: Ediciones Espuela de Plata, 2017. In Spanish. Previously published by Ediciones Espuela de Plata in 2007 and 2010 (see WBHC).
Cohen, Tom, and Claire Colebrook. “Vortices: On ‘Critical Climate Change’ as a Project.” South Atlantic Quarterly 116.1 (Jan. 2017): 129-43. Uses Blake’s concept of vortices to discuss climate change.
Colebrook, Claire. “The Twilight of the Anthropocene: Sustaining Literature.” Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture. Ed. Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, and Louise Squire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. xvii, 253 pp., illus., 25 cm., ISBN: 9780719099670. 115-36. Uses Blake’s practices as an engraver as a touchstone in her wider discussion of sustainability.
Cooper, Brendan. William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Student’s Guide. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. xiv, 108 pp., 14 color illus., 30 b/w illus., ISBN: 9781787072206.
Corrin, Lisa G. “Director’s Foreword.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Corti, Claudia. “L’onomastica visionaria di William Blake, poeta e artista romantico.” Il Nome nel testo 18 (2016): 43-58. In Italian (abstract in English).
Cotter, Holland, Roberta Smith, and Jason Farago. Rev. of William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, ed. Stephen F. Eisenman. See Eisenman, WBAA.
Crosby, Mark. “Introduction.” See HLQ 80.3.
Crosby, Mark. “Prophets, Madmen, and Millenarians.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Crosby, Mark. “Sendak, Blake, and the Image of Childhood.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
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Damrosch, Leo. Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake. 2015. <Blake (2016)>
Reviews
Oliver, Michael. “William Blake: A Sketchy Introduction.”
Antigonish Review 48 (spring 2017): 85-88.
Piccitto, Diane.
Modern Philology 114.4 (May 2017): 266-68.
Rovira, James.
European Romantic Review 28.4 (2017): 489-94.
Wolfson, Susan. “Popularizing Blake/Simplifying Blake: Reading Leo Damrosch’s
Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake.”
Journal of Romanticism 2 (2017).
Yoder, R. Paul. See
Blake 51.3.
Davies, Keri. Rev. of Jennifer Jesse, William Blake’s Religious Vision. See Jesse.
De la Barra van Treek, Erika. “Simbolismo y extravío en el mundo lírico de Beulah de William Blake,” Revista de Humanidades 19-20 (June-Dec. 2009): 51-63. In Spanish (abstract in Spanish and English).
§ De Santis, Silvia. Blake and Dante: A Study of William Blake’s Illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Including His Critical Notes. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2017. ISBN: 9788849234497.
*Diniz, Thaïs Flores Nogueira. “‘A Rosa Doente’ dos tempos modernos.” Letras no. 51 (Dec. 2015): 71-81. In Portuguese (abstract in Portuguese and English). <Blake (2017)> B. “Transmediating Corruptive Beauty: William Blake’s ‘The Sick Rose’ of Modern Times.” Cadernos de Letras da UFF 27, no. 54 (2017): 11-21. An English translation of the 2015 article.
Do Canto, D. S., and A. P. Alós. “A vida de William Blake: a formaçao de um gravurista com poucos recursos.” DLCV: Língua, Linguística & Literatura 12 (2017). In Portuguese.
Dos Santos, Alcides Cardoso. “O Mal como Gênio Poético nas Ilustrações do Livro de Jó, de William Blake.” Terra roxa e outras terras 6 (2005): 44-63. In Portuguese.
Dos Santos, Andrio J. R. “A temível simetria do vampiro: interstício de significação entre William Blake e Anne Rice.” Literatura e autoritarismo, Dossiê no. 20 (July 2017): 46-59. In Portuguese (abstract in Portuguese and English).
Dos Santos, Andrio J. R. “‘My evil, and my lusty little heart’: Tradução intersemiótica de ‘The Tyger,’ de William Blake, em ‘The Tale of the Body Thief,’ de Anne Rice.” Literartes no. 7 (2017): 266-84. In Portuguese (abstract also in English and Spanish).
Dos Santos, Andrio J. R., and Elenara Quinhones. “O silêncio da Filha Sombria: o problema do desejo em America: a Prophecy e Europe: a Prophecy, de William Blake.” Todas as Musas 8.2 (2017): 170-82. In Portuguese (abstract in Portuguese and English).
Dos Santos, Andrio J. R., and Enéias Farias Tavares. “Blake e a voz profética do diabo: dualidade corpo e mente em paralelo a texto e imagem.” Estaçao Literária 19 (2017): 36-48. In Portuguese.
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Earle, Bo. “Blake’s Infant Smile: Facing Materialism.” Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. xiii, 212 pp., ISBN: 9780814213520. 35-62. “The Book of Thel, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle anticipate Wittgenstein’s ‘skeptical solution to the paradox of skepticism’Saul A. Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984) 69. by liberating symptomology for visionary aesthetics without diagnostic pretense.”
Eaves, Morris. “The Editorial Void: Notes toward a Study of Oblivion.” See HLQ 80.3.
Eisenman, Stephen F. “Black Ops in Art and History.” Visual History 3 (2017): 25-56. Examines the theatricality of contemporary paramilitary operations—black ops—in terms of Romantic-era depictions of “Inquisition, imprisonment and torture” (50) by artists and writers such as Blake, Goya, John Hunter, and George Romney.
Eisenman, Stephen F., ed. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius. Princeton: Princeton University Press and the Block Museum of Art, 2017. xi, 232 pp., color illus., 26 cm., ISBN: 9780691175256. The catalogue for the exhibition.
Lisa G. Corrin. “Director’s Foreword.” vii.
Corinne Granof. “Acknowledgments.” viii-xi.
Stephen F. Eisenman. “William Blake and the Age of Aquarius.” 1-77.
Mark Crosby. “Prophets, Madmen, and Millenarians.” 78-99.
Elizabeth Ferrell. “William Blake on the West Coast.” 100-39.
Jacob Henry Leveton. “William Blake and Art against Surveillance.” 140-59.
John P. Murphy. “Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius.” 160-81.
Mark Crosby. “Sendak, Blake, and the Image of Childhood.” 182-97.
W. J. T. Mitchell. “Blake Now and Then.” 198-205.
Reviews
Cotter, Holland, Roberta Smith, and Jason Farago. “
The Best Art Books (and Books about Art) of 2017.”
New York Times 15 Dec. 2017: C20.
Hawbaker, K. T. “
The Feminist Energies of William Blake and Faith Wilding Take Over Chicago.”
Chicago Tribune 20 Dec. 2017.
Eisenman, Stephen F. “William Blake and the Age of Aquarius.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Elliott, Clare Frances. “William Blake’s American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and Whitman.” Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780–1850: Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture. Ed. Annika Bautz and Kathryn Gray. New York: Routledge, 2017. vi, 236 pp., illus., 24 cm., ISBN: 9781138243422. 195-211.
Enright, Nancy. “Confront and Forgive.” Commonweal 144.15 (2017): 46-47. On “A Poison Tree.”
§ Erdman, David V., and John E. Grant, eds. Blake’s Visionary Forms Dramatic. 1971. <BB #1580> Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Princeton Legacy Library. ISBN: 9780691654423. Reprint of the classic collection.
Erle, Sibylle. “‘On the very Verge of legitimate Invention’: Charles Bonnet and William Blake’s Illustrations to Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808).” The Gothic and Death. Ed. Carol Margaret Davison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. xv, 240 pp., illus., 23 cm., ISBN: 9781784992699. 34-47.
Erle, Sibylle. Rev. of Roger Lüdeke, Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake: Ästhetische Souveränität und politische Imagination. See Blake 50.4.
Escobar, Armando. “Un camino a través del infierno: la presencia de William Blake en Dragón rojo.” Ágora. Revista estudiantil del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de El Colegio de México 7, no. 11 (2011). In Spanish.
Essick, Robert N. “Blake in the Marketplace, 2016.” See Blake 50.4.
Essick, Robert N. “A Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep.” See Blake 51.2.
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Farrell, Michael. Blake and the Methodists. 2014. <Blake (2015)>
Review
Brand, Cassie.
Methodist History 55.1 and 2 (Oct. 2016 and Jan. 2017): 131-32.
Fender, Katherine. “Milton, Blake, and the Sublime.” See “Teaching Romanticism XVIII: Miltonic Legacies.”
Ferrell, Elizabeth. “William Blake on the West Coast.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Fletcher, Joseph. “Leibniz, the Infinite, and Blake’s Early Metaphysics.” Studies in Romanticism 56.2 (summer 2017): 129-55.
§ Freeman, Curtis W. “Apocalyptic Dissent: William Blake.” Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2017. xviii, 269 pp., 23 cm., ISBN: 9781481306881.
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Goldstein, Amanda Jo. “Blake’s Mundane Egg: Epigenesis and Milieux.” Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. viii, 330 pp., illus., 24 cm., ISBN: 9780226458441. 35-71.
Gourlay, Alexander S. “Blake Writes Backward.” See HLQ 80.3.
Gourlay, Alexander S. Rev. of Martin Priestman, The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. See Darwin in Division II.
Gourlay, Alexander S. Rev. of Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee, William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. See Blake 50.4.
Graff, Ann-Barbara. Rev. of G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Edwardses of Halifax. See Bentley, Edwardses.
Granof, Corinne. “Acknowledgments.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
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Haekel, Ralf, ed. Handbook of British Romanticism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. ISBN: 9783110376364. Handbooks of English and American Studies Series. Ed. Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf. Frequent references to Blake in its essays on topics and genres related to Romanticism. Also includes an extended close reading of America—see Lüdeke, “William Blake, America (1793).”
Haggarty, Sarah, and Jon Mee. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. 2013.<Blake (2015)>
Review
Gourlay, Alexander S. See
Blake 50.4.
Harrington, Emily. “Time’s Intervals, Swinburne’s Triumph.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 57.4 (autumn 2017): 799-821. Partly considers Swinburne’s writings on Blake.
Hawbaker, K. T. Rev. of William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, ed. Stephen F. Eisenman. See Eisenman, WBAA.
Hellman, Jesse M. “Grace Gilchrist’s Childish Jealousy and Bernard Shaw’s Idiotic Thoughtlessness.” SHAW: Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 37.2 (2017): 227-44. Examines Shaw’s relationship with Grace Gilchrist, the daughter of Blake’s Victorian biographers, Alexander and Anne Gilchrist.
Hilton, Nelson. Rev. of Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake. See Makdisi.
Howard, W. Scott. “Milton and Blake—The Poetics and Praxis of Adaptation.” See “Teaching Romanticism XVIII: Miltonic Legacies.”
Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume 80, number 3 (autumn 2017), ed. Mark Crosby
William Blake’s Manuscripts
Mark Crosby. “
Introduction.” 361-64.
Joseph Viscomi. “
Signing Large Color Prints: The Significance of Blake’s Signatures.” 365-402.
Alexander S. Gourlay. “
Blake Writes Backward.” 403-21.
Angus Whitehead. “
The Uncollected Letters of William Blake.” 423-35. Includes images of Blake’s 10 and 25 Nov. 1825 letters to John Linnell.
Fernando Castanedo. “
On Blinks and Kisses, Monkeys and Bears: Dating William Blake’s An Island in the Moon.” 437-52.
Luisa Calè. “
Blake, Young, and the Poetics of the Composite Page.” 453-79.
Wayne C. Ripley. “
The Influence of the Moravian Collection of Hymns on William Blake’s Later Mythology.” 481-98.
Rachel Lee. “
Editing in Technicolor: The Blake Archive’s Edition of the Vala or The Four Zoas Manuscript.” 499-515.
Morris Eaves. “
The Editorial Void: Notes toward a Study of Oblivion.” 517-38.
Hurley, Michael D. “William Blake: Destabilized Particulars.” Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 201 pp., 23 cm., ISBN: 9781474234078. 9-38.
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Ikezawa, Natsuki. “Shi no Nagusame (62): Futatabi Blake e [Comfort in Poetry (62): Blake Revisited].” Tosho [Book] 819 (2017): 60-63. In Japanese. The essay includes the author’s own translations of “The School Boy,” “The Little Vagabond,” and “The Voice of the Ancient Bard.”
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Jesse, Jennifer G. William Blake’s Religious Vision: There’s a Methodism in His Madness. 2013. <Blake (2014)>
Review
Davies, Keri.
BARS Review 49 (2017): 5 pars.
Jorge, Letícia, and Luiz O. Q. Peduzzi. “As pinceladas anti-Newtonianas de William Blake.” Anais eletrônicos do 15o Seminário Nacional de História da Ciência e da Tecnologia, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 16 a 18 de novembro de 2016. Published in the online proceedings of a conference on the history of science. In Portuguese. 15 pp.
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Kawasaki, Misako. “William Blake no ‘The Lamb’ to ‘The Tyger’ wo yomu (A Reading of ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake).” Toyo Daigaku Daigakuin Kiyo (Bulletin of the Graduate School, Toyo University) 53 (2016): 253-70. In Japanese, with an English synopsis.
Kellett, Lucy. “‘Crooked roads without improvement’: Rhyming and Unrhyming in Blake.” Romanticism 23.2 (July 2017): 133-44.
Kodama, Sanehide. Rev. of Hikari Sato, Yanagi Muneyoshi to William Blake: Kanryu suru “Kotei no Shiso.” See Sato, Yanagi Muneyoshi to William Blake.
Kutcher, Gerald. “Geoffrey Keynes’s Two-Fold Vision: Medical Savant-Connoisseur and Literary Bibliographer.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 71.4 (Oct. 2016): 377-99.
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Langham, Kent. “Transforming Perspectives: The Angel’s Key in William Blake’s ‘The Chimney Sweeper.’” Explicator 75.2 (2017): 133-36.
Lapaque, Sébastien. Rev. of William Blake: Les dessins pour la Divine Comédie de Dante, ed. Sebastian Schütze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli. See Dante in Part II, Section A.
Le Cudennec, Rodney David. “William Blake: From Irony to the Sublime.” A History of the Lie of Innocence in Literature: Sons Who Become Orphans. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 9781443872867. 30-44.
Lee, Rachel. “Editing in Technicolor: The Blake Archive’s Edition of the Vala or The Four Zoas Manuscript.” See HLQ 80.3.
Leveton, Jacob Henry. “William Blake and Art against Surveillance.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Lincoln, Andrew. Rev. of Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake. See Blake 51.1.
Lüdeke, Roger. “William Blake, America (1793).” Handbook of British Romanticism. Ed. Ralf Haekel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. ISBN: 9783110376364. 277-92. Examines the relationship between the political and transcendent in America: A Prophecy.
Lüdeke, Roger. Zur Schreibkunst von William Blake: Ästhetische Souveränität und politische Imagination. 2013. <Blake (2014)>
Review
Erle, Sibylle. See
Blake 50.4.
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Maidment, Brian. Rev. of Art versus Industry? New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade, and Gabriel Williams. See Trodd.
Makdisi, Saree. Reading William Blake. 2015. <Blake (2016)>
Reviews
Hilton, Nelson.
Critical Inquiry 43.3 (spring 2017): 757-58.
Lincoln, Andrew. See
Blake 51.1.
Otto, Peter.
Romanticism 23.3 (2017): 291-93.
Matsushima, Shoichi. Rev. of Hikari Sato, Yanagi Muneyoshi to William Blake: Kanryu suru “Kotei no Shiso.” See Sato, Yanagi Muneyoshi to William Blake.
Mazzeo, Tilar J. “William Blake and the Decorative Arts.” The Regency Revisited. Ed. Tim Fulford and Michael E. Sinatra. New York: Palgrave, 2016. vi, 207 pp., illus., 23 cm., ISBN: 9781137543370. 63-80.
McAlvage, Katherine Elizabeth. “Blake and the Strategic Sympathies of Movement in Milton.” “Romanticism’s Moving Bodies: Literary Embodiment and Affect.” PhD diss., University of Oregon, 2017. 177-223.
McGann, Jerome. “Blake and Byron; or, Art and Imagination after the Second Fall.” Christianity and Literature 66.4 (Sept. 2017): 609-30.
McLane, Maureen. “Ballads and Bards: British Romantic Orality.” British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates. Ed. Mark Canuel. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature. ISBN: 9780415523813. 588-600. An abridged version originally published under the same title in Modern Philology (2001): 423-43 <Blake (2003)>.
Miller, Eric. “‘Druid Rocks’: Restoration, Originality, Nature and Authority in John Dryden, Titia Brongersma and William Blake’s Visions of Megalithic Monuments.” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle 36 (2017): 143-59.
Miner, Paul. “Blake’s Word-Play and Sir Joshua.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 29-33.
Miner, Paul. “Wild Blake’s Rewriting of ‘Wild’ Shakespeare.” Notes and Queries 64.1 (March 2017): 33-38.
Mitchell, W. J. T. “Blake Now and Then.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Miyamachi, Seiichi. “Honyaku William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh [Translation, William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh].” Sapporo Gakuin Daigaku Jimbun Gakkai Kiyo (Journal of the Society of Humanities, Sapporo Gakuin University) 100 (2016): 167-99. In Japanese. Translation of chapter 4. For his translations of other chapters in the same journal, see <Blake (2014, 2015)>.
Miyamachi, Seiichi. “Honyaku William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh [Translation, William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh].” Sapporo Gakuin Daigaku Jimbun Gakkai Kiyo (Journal of the Society of Humanities, Sapporo Gakuin University) 102 (2017): 147-71. In Japanese. Translation of chapter 5. For his translations of other chapters in the same journal, see <Blake (2014, 2015)>.
Mulhallen, Karen. “Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr., 23 August 1930–31 August 2017.” See Blake 51.2.
Murphy, John P. “Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius.” See Eisenman, WBAA.
Myrone, Martin. “William Blake as a Student of the Royal Academy: A Prosopographical Perspective.” See Blake 51.2.
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Nakayama, Fumi. “The Unity of Contraries in William Blake’s World of Vegetation.” Eibei Bunka (Studies in English Language, Literature, and Culture) 47 (2017): 1-12. In English.
Neish, Julie. “Insights into an Original SSAA Choral Work of Donald Patriquin: Songs of Innocence: On Poems of William Blake.” DMA diss., Arizona State University, 2017.
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O’Hear, Natasha, and Anthony O’Hear. Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Includes Blake in its survey of visual depictions of the Apocalypse.
Oliver, Michael. Rev. of Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise. See Damrosch.
O’Neill, Morna. Rev. of Art versus Industry? New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade, and Gabriel Williams. See Trodd.
Otto, Peter. Rev. of Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake. See Makdisi.
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§ Paris, Andreea. “William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ as an Expression of the Reader’s Futile Search for Authorial Intent.” East-West Cultural Passage 16.1 (July 2016): 110-19.
Paula Cabrera, Ana, and Anselmo Peres Alós. “Literatura comparada e outras mídias: uma visão de luz e sombras na poética inteartes de William Blake.” Fênix: Revista de História e Estudos Culturais 13.2 (2016). In Portuguese. 16 pp.
Piccitto, Diane. Rev. of Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise. See Damrosch.
Picón, Daniela. “El libro como soporte de la experiencia visionaria en las profecías iluminadas de William Blake y El libro rojo de Carl Gustav Jung.” Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 19.1 (2017): 63-85. In Spanish (abstracts also in Portuguese and English).
Picón, Daniela. Visiones de William Blake: Itinerarios de su recepción en los siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Calambur Editorial, 2017. 272 pp., ISBN: 9788483593783. In Spanish.
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Ripley, Wayne C. “The Influence of the Moravian Collection of Hymns on William Blake’s Later Mythology.” See HLQ 80.3.
Ripley, Wayne C. “Two Newly Discovered Advertisements Posted by William Blake’s Father.” See Blake 51.1.
Rix, Robert William. “William Blake’s ‘Infant Joy’ and the Rhetoric of Riddle.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 30.4 (Oct.–Dec. 2017): 216-18.
Roudaut, Jean. Le tigre de William Blake. Principes et ingrédients du roman policier noir. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2017. 106 pp., ISBN: 9782367812038. In French. Suggests that detective stories and/or crime novels describe a confrontation of “symbolic equals such as the Lamb and the Tyger.”
Rovira, James. Rev. of G. E. Bentley, Jr., The Edwardses of Halifax. See Blake 51.1.
Rovira, James. Rev. of Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise. See Damrosch.
§ Rowland, Christopher. “‘From impulse not from rules’: William Blake’s Apocalyptic Pedagogy.” Radical Prophet: The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Strove for Heaven on Earth. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. ix, 230 pp., ISBN: 9781784532659.
Russett, Margaret. “Milton Unbound.” British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates. Ed. Mark Canuel. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature. ISBN: 9780415523813. 222-41.
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Sato, Hikari. “Mushakoji Saneatsu to William Blake: Kyosei to kyoso no hazama de (MUSHAKOJI [MUSHANOKOJI] Saneatsu and William Blake: Between Symbiotic Cooperation and Hierarchical Competition).” Choiki Bunka Kagaku Kiyo (Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies) 22 (2017): 23-47. In Japanese. Mushakoji is a Japanese family name commonly also known as Mushanokoji.
Sato, Hikari. Yanagi Muneyoshi to William Blake: Kanryu suru “Kotei no Shiso” [Yanagi Muneyoshi and William Blake: The Philosophy of Affirmation of Life and Its Global Circulation]. 2015. <Blake (2016)>
Reviews
Kodama, Sanehide.
Hikaku Bungaku (
Journal of Comparative Literature) 59 (2016): 284-89. In English.
Matsushima, Shoichi.
Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu (
Essays in English Romanticism) 41 (2017): 121-24. In Japanese.
Sato, Michiko. “Adam no sozo wo megutte: William Blake Adam wo sozo suru Elohim no saiko (Concerning the Icon of the Creation of Adam: Reconsideration of Elohim Creating Adam by William Blake).” Joshi Bijutsu Daigaku Kenkyu Kiyo (Bulletin of Joshibi University of Art and Design) 47 (2017): 17-26. In Japanese, with an English synopsis.
Schuchard, Marsha Keith. Rev. of Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century. See Blake 50.4.
Smith, David A. “Blake’s Aesthetic Messianism: Multimodal Art as the Rhetoric of Transformation.” PhD diss., Baylor University, 2017.
Soriya, Anya. “Le même et l’autre dans les œuvres de William Blake et de Friedrich Hölderlin: la folie et la prophétie [The Same and the Other in the Works of William Blake and Friedrich Hölderlin: Madness and Prophecy].” Doctoral diss., Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), 2016. In French.
Steil, Juliana, and Vitória Tassara Costa Silva. “William Blake em Espanhol.” Belas Infiéis 5.3 (2016): 191-212. In Portuguese (abstract in English). The article gathers information “about translations of William Blake’s works published in Spanish, as well as an initial analysis of the author’s literary reputation in that language.”
Suzuki, Masashi. “Blake no system ko: Koten Sakuhin Kaisetsu Mokuroku (1809) wo chushin ni (Blake’s ‘System’ in A Descriptive Catalogue [1809]).” Igirisu Romanha Kenkyu (Essays in English Romanticism) 41 (2017): 27-40. In Japanese.
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“Teaching Romanticism XVIII: Miltonic Legacies.” Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840.
It includes:
Brian Bates. ”Milton’s Satan, Sin, Death, and Gothic Romanticism.” 6 pars.
Katherine Fender. “Milton, Blake, and the Sublime.” 4 pars.
W. Scott Howard. “Milton and Blake—The Poetics and Praxis of Adaptation.” 6 pars.
Tedeschi, Stephen. Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 117. vi, 282 pp., 24 cm., ISBN: 9781108416092. Slight discussion of Blake.
Thompson, Mark. “Some Influences on Philip Larkin’s ‘Cut Grass.’” Notes and Queries 64.4 (Dec. 2017): 669-71. Blake, Keats, and Hubert Parry.
§ Trodd, Colin. “William Blake, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Mythography of Manufacture.” Art versus Industry? New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Ed. Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade, and Gabriel Williams. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. <Blake (2017)>
Reviews
Brian Maidment.
Victorian Studies 59.4 (summer 2017): 716-18.
Morna O’Neill.
Art Bulletin 99.3 (2017): 173-75.
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Vanegas Carrasco, Carolina. “Un trópico para el universo. Reflexiones sobre un grabado de trajes de Colombia de 1837 [A Tropic for the Universe. Reflections on an Engraving of Colombian Costumes of 1837].” Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos (published online 11 Dec. 2017). In Spanish (abstracts in Spanish and English). An article on the visual construction of a national identity in Colombia. Comments on how French magazines used engravings for that purpose, among them Blake’s “A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows.”
§ Vassallo, Peter. “The Illustrations of the Paolo and Francesca Episode in Dante’s Inferno (Canto V) by William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.” At Home in Art: Essays in Honour of Mario Buhagiar. Ed. Charlene Vella. Santa Venera: Midsea Books, 2016. xxii, 730 pp., illus., 25 cm., ISBN: 9789993275985.
Viscomi, Joseph. “A Newly Discovered Copy of Blake’s Adam and Eve Asleep.” See Blake 51.2.
Viscomi, Joseph. “Signing Large Color Prints: The Significance of Blake’s Signatures.” See HLQ 80.3.
§ Vozdvizsenszkij, Vagyim. “William Blake and Grigory Skovoroda Revisited.” Across Borders: The West Looks East. Ed. Joanna Ziobro-Strzępek and Władysław Chłopicki. Krosno: State Higher Vocational School Stanisława Pigonia, 2017. In English. 303-11.
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Wang, Orrin N. C. “Two Pipers: Romanticism, Postmodernism, and the Cliché.” British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates. Ed. Mark Canuel. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature. ISBN: 9780415523813. 518-26.
Whitehead, Angus. “The Uncollected Letters of William Blake.” See HLQ 80.3.
Whitehead, James. Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi, 304 pp., illus., 24 cm., ISBN: 9780198733706. Brief discussion of Blake, but frequently invoked as a touchstone.
Whitfield, Stephen J. “Alfred Kazin and the Holocaust.” Society 54.5 (Oct. 2017): 470-76. Considers, in part, Kazin’s use of “London” as part of his engagement with the Holocaust.
Wilkinson, John. “Stone Thresholds.” Textual Practice 31.4 (2017): 631-59. Discusses “The Clod and the Pebble.”
Wolff, Tristram. “Romantic Stone Speech and the Appeal of the Inorganic.” English Literary History 84.3 (fall 2017): 617-47. Analysis of “The Clod and the Pebble.”
Wolfson, Susan. Rev. of Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise. See Damrosch.
Wrethed, Joakim. “The Invisible Apocalyptic City: The Affectivity of Urbanity, Movement, and Desire in William Blake’s ‘London,’ Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, and Ivan Vladislavić’s The Exploded View.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 22.2 (2016): 305-25. In English.
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Yamazaki, Yusuke. “William Blake ni okeru ‘rengoku’: Contrary no gainen wo toshite Dante no Shinkyoku wo yomu (Blakean ‘Purgatory’: Dante’s Divine Comedy through Blake’s Idea.” Nagasaki Wesleyan Daigaku Gendai Shakai Gakubu Kiyo (Bulletin of Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Nagasaki Wesleyan University) 15.1 (2017): 1-7. In Japanese.
§ Yau, John. The Wild Children of William Blake. New York: Autonomedia Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781570273247. Collection of essays on “poets and artists” who are cast as heirs of Blake’s cultural dissent.
Yoder, R. Paul. Rev. of Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise. See Blake 51.3.
Division II: William Blake’s Circle
Barry, James (1741–1806)
History painter
Lenihan, Liam. The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting, 1775–1809. 2014. <Blake (2015)>
Reviews
Hanson, Craig Ashley. “
James Barry on Art, Freedom, and History Painting.”
Eighteenth Century 58.2 (summer 2017): 259-63.
Rovee, Christopher.
BARS Review 49 (2017): 4 pars.
Basire, James, II (1769–1822)
Engraver, son of Blake’s master
Marshall, Simone Celine. “The Exeter Drawings of John Carter: A Rare Book in a Private Collection in New Zealand.” Parergon 32.2 (2015): 177-206. Examines John Carter’s Some Account of the Cathedral Church of Exeter (London, 1797), which was published for the Society of Antiquaries and includes engravings by James Basire II.
Boehme, Jacob (1575–1624)
Mystic
Brink, Claudia, and Lucinda Martin, eds. Alles in Allem: Die Gedankenwelt des mystischen Philosophen Jacob Böhme: Denken, Kontext, Wirkung. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag für Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2017. ISBN: 9783954983285. The catalogue of the exhibition Alles in Allem: Die Gedankenwelt des mystischen Philosophen Jacob Böhme, organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 26 August–19 November 2017. Includes Luisa Calè, “William Blakes Nachtgedanken: Zwischen Buch, Körper und Kosmos” (151-65) (translated into German by Helen Jung).
Brink, Claudia, and Lucinda Martin, eds. Grund und Ungrund: Der Kosmos des mystischen Philosophen Jacob Böhme. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag für Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2017. ISBN: 9783954983278. The companion volume to the exhibition catalogue above.
Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802)
Scientist and poet
Edition
Darwin, Erasmus.
The Botanic Garden. Illus. by William Blake et al. Ed. Adam Komisaruk and Allison Dushane. 2 vols. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 9781848935655. Vol. 1 contains
The Economy of Vegetation and vol. 2
The Loves of the Plants. A long-needed and awaited edition.
Review
Edwall, Christy. “
Evaporated in Sound.”
Times Literary Supplement 4 Oct. 2017.
Criticism
Bailes, Melissa. “Linnaeus’s Botanical Clocks: Chronobiological Mechanisms in the Scientific Poetry of Erasmus Darwin, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans.”
Studies in Romanticism 56.2 (summer 2017): 223-52.
Fetz, Marcelo. “Negotiating Boundaries: Encyclopédie, Romanticism, and the Construction of Science/Negociando fronteiras: Encyclopédie, romantismo e a construção da ciência.” História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos 24.3 (July-Sept. 2017): 645-63. In English (abstracts in English and Portuguese).
Griffiths, Devin. The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Review
Page, Michael.
Journal of British Studies 56.4 (Oct. 2017): 915-16.
Kapler, Bridget E. “Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790–1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet.” PhD diss., Marquette University, 2016.
Priestman, Martin. The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Reviews
Gourlay, Alexander S.
Blake 49.1 (summer 2015): 9 pars.
Somervell, Tess.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40.1 (March 2017): 145-46.
Thomasen, Laura Søvsø. “Showing and Telling Science—The Integrated Use of Literature and Images in the Works of Erasmus Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3 (2017): 227-40.
Flaxman, Ann (1760–1820)
Letter writer, journalist, friend of the Blakes
Edition
Flaxman, Ann.
An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome. Ed. Marie E. McAllister.
Romantic Circles, 2014. A digital edition of Ann (Nancy) Flaxman’s travel journal to Italy (1787–89). Includes a substantial introduction to one of the Blakes’ most important friends and a “List of Artists and Architects Mentioned in the Text.”
Flaxman, John (1755–1826)
Sculptor, friend of Blake
Marchand, Eckart. “Sculptor and Tourist: John Flaxman and His Italian Journals and Sketchbooks (1787–1794).” Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c. 1770–1825. Ed. Tomas Macsotay. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 9781472420350. 179-96.
Fuseli, Henry (1741–1825)
Painter, friend of Blake
Burden, Michael. “A Short Article on a Lively Subject: Geltruda Rossi, Sarah Siddons, and Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth à la Fuseli.” Dance Research Journal 49.1 (April 2017): 55-69.
de Lima, Cecilia Nazaré, and Thaïs Flores Nogueira Diniz. “Hamlet in Two Interpretations: Fuseli and Liszt.” Todas as Letras: Revista de Língua e Literatura 19.1 (Jan.-April 2017): 92-102. In English.
Poot, Luke Terlaak. “Scott’s Momentaneousness: Bad Timing in The Bride of Lammermoor.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 72.3 (Dec. 2017): 283-310. Considers the influence of Fuseli’s concept of “momentaneousness” on Scott.
Gibson, John (1786–1866)
Sculptor
Ferrari, Roberto C. “The Sculptor, the Duke, and Queer Art Patronage: John Gibson’s Mars Restrained by Cupid and Winckelmannian Aesthetics.” Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, c. 1770–1825. Ed. Tomas Macsotay. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 9781472420350. 225-48.
Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809)
Bookseller, Blake’s sometime employer
Bugg, John, ed. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook. 2016. <Blake (2017)>
Reviews
Brown, Meaghan J.
Modern Language Review 112.3 (July 2017): 700-01.
Mee, Jon.
Nineteenth-Century Literature 72.2 (Sept. 2017): 271-75.
Morris, James M.
BARS Review 49 (2017): 5 pars.
Raven, James R.
Review of English Studies 68, no. 284 (April 2017): 385-87.
Linnell, John (1792–1882)
Artist, Blake’s friend and patron
Sperber, Roxane. “The Retouching Practices of John Linnell: Technique, Patronage and Practice from Two Works in the Yale Center for British Art.” A Changing Art: Nineteenth-Century Painting, Practice, and Conservation. Ed. Nicola Costaras et al. London: Archetype, 2017. 116-22.
Marsh, John (1752–1828)
Musician, personal acquaintance of Blake and William Hayley
Renshaw, Martin. John Marsh: A Most Elegant and Beautiful Instrument: The Organ. London: At the Sign of the Pipe, 2017.
Montgomery, James (1771–1854)
Moravian poet, Blake knew at least his works
Ramsey, Neil. “James Montgomery’s Waterloo: War and the Poetics of History.” Studies in Romanticism 56.3 (fall 2017): 361-78.
Moravianism
Faull, Katherine M., ed. Speaking to Body and Soul: Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers, 1785–1786. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. xi, 185 pp., illus., 24 cm., ISBN: 9780271077673.
Peucker, Paul. A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xiv, 248 pp., illus., 24 cm., ISBN: 9780271066431.
Review
Schuchard, Marsha Keith. See
Blake 50.4.
Phillips, Richard (1767–1840)
Publisher, known to Blake
Hammerschmidt, Sören. “Print, Proximity, and the Marketing of Richard Phillips: Mediating Richardson.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 29.2 (winter 2016–17): 277-316. Examines the production history of Phillips’s edition of Samuel Richardson; also discusses Anna Letitia Barbauld and Caroline Watson.
Romney, George (1734–1802)
Painter
Transactions of the Romney Society
Volume 20 (2015), ed. Alex Kidson
Kidson, Alex. “The Romney Plaque on Kendal Town Hall: Philip Chatfield in Conversation with the Editor.” 5-10.
Webb, Richard. “Sculpture and Strawberries: The Life of Anne Damer.” 11-18.
Andrew, Vanessa, and David Crombie. “Secrets of a Romney Portrait Revealed: The Conservation and Technical Examination of the Portrait of Stratford Canning.” 19-23.
Stevens, Mary Anne. “The Brilliant and Eccentric Monsieur Liotard, Pastellist of Distinction.” 24-32.
Society of Antiquaries
Franklin, Jill A., Bernard Nurse, and Pamela Tudor-Craig. Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London. London: Harvey Miller for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2015.
Review
Palliser, D. M.
English Historical Review 132, no. 554 (Feb. 2017): 215-17.
Stedman, John Gabriel (1744–97)
Friend of Blake
Lingold, Mary Caton. “Peculiar Animations: Listening to Afro-Atlantic Music in Caribbean Travel Narratives.” Early American Literature 52.3 (2017): 623-50. Examines Stedman’s and others’ efforts to represent “early African diasporic musical life” in musical notation.
Swedenborg, Emmanuel (1688–1772)
Mystic
Davies, Keri. “‘The Swedishman at Brother Brockmer’s’: Moravians and Swedenborgians in Eighteenth-Century London.” Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: An Anthology of Essays on the Thought and Influence of Emmanuel Swedenborg. Ed. Stephen McNeilly. London: Swedenborg Society, 2013. ISBN: 9780854481613. 407-34. Examines Swedenborg’s early connections to London Moravians and Methodists.
Esterson, Rebecca Kline. “Secrets of Heaven: Allegory, Jews, the European Enlightenment and the Case of Emanuel Swedenborg.” PhD diss., Boston University, 2017.
Thornton, Robert John (1768–1837)
Book collector
Fein, Susanna, and Michael Johnston, eds. Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts. Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press/Boydell & Brewer, 2014. ISBN: 9781903153512.
Review
Boffey, Julia.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 116.1 (Jan. 2017): 124-25.
Trusler, John (1735–1820)
Clergyman, friend of George Cumberland
Selection
Trusler, John.
The Difference between Words, Esteemed Synonymous, in the English Language (1766).
Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography. Ed. Rebecca Shapiro. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781611488098. 279-86. An excerpt.
Criticism
Monaghan, Jessica. “
Authenticity and Fashionable Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”
Literature and Medicine 35.2 (fall 2017): 387-408. Discusses Trusler’s novel
Modern Times, or, the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast (1785).
Shuttleton, David E. “The Fashioning of Fashionable Diseases in the Eighteenth Century.” Literature and Medicine 35.2 (fall 2017): 270-91. Likewise discusses Trusler’s Modern Times, or, the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast (1785).