WILLIAM BLAKE

William Blake, The Complete Poems, ed. W.H. Stevenson (Longman Annotated English Poets; 2nd rev. ed., London, 1989); see also Stevenson's 'Blake's Progress', Essays in Criticism, 49 (1999), 195-218. William Blake, Writings, ed. G.E. Bentley, Jr. (2 vols, Oxford, 1978). William Blake, Poetry and Prose, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Nonesuch Library, 4th ed., London, [1939] and frequently reprinted), or (also for the prose), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman (newly rev. ed., Berkeley, Cal., 1982; reprinted, Anchor Books, N.Y., 1988). William Blake, The Complete Poems, ed. Alicia Ostriker (Penguin English Poets; Garmondsworth, 1977). William Blake, Selected Poetry, ed. W.H. Stevenson (Penguin Poetry Library, London, 1988). Erdman (David V.), The Illuminated Blake; William Blake's Complete Illu- minated Works, with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary (New York, c. 1974, reprinted Dover Pubs, New York, 1992). Butlin (Martin), The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (2 vols., New Haven, 1981). William Blake, The Complete Graphic Works, compiled by David Bindman & Deidre Toomey (London, 1978). William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul [coloured facsimile], with intro. and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1967). William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [coloured facsimile], with intro. and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1975). William Blake, 'America, A Prophecy' [1793/4] and 'Europe, A Prophecy' [1794] [colour facsimile] (Dover, New York, 1983). Bindman (David), William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job (London, 1987). Dunbar (Pamela), William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton (Oxford, 1980). Keynes (Geoffrey), William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray (London, 1972). Erdman (David V.) (ed.), Blake's Notebook (Oxford, 1973; rev. ed., New York, 1977). William Blake, The Letters, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (3rd ed., Oxford, 1980).

N.B. To call up catalogue entries for the Caius Library holdings of Blake facsimile volumes, open the Newton OPAC interface (the usual online 2 catalogue), select local database and then Gonville and Caius College, then at Guided Search enter in authorname field 'William Blake Trust'; this will give call-marks and locations for the Trianon Press facsimiles (the very highest quality, Old Library, not borrowable) and for the Tate Gallery facsimiles (good quality, Working Library, borrowable), a total of 17 + 5 titles in all. Items shelved in the Old Library may be seen by request to Library staff during normal working hours; for more extended study it may be convenient to make an appointment ahead of time.

Bindman (David), William Blake; Catalogue of the Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1970) [there have been numerous important additions to this major collection of Blake's books, drawings & paintings since the date of this catalogue: visit the Museum and find out!]. Keynes (Geoffrey) (ed.), William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible; A Catalogue (Bossia, Clairvaux, 1957).

Wilson (Mona), The Life of William Blake, (3rd ed., rev. Geoffrey Keynes, London, 1971). Bentley (Gerald Eades) (ed.), Blake Records; Documents (1714-1841) con- cerning the Life of William Blake (1757-1827) and his Family, in- corporating 'Blake Records' (1969), 'Blake Records Supplement' (1988), and Extensive Discoveries since 1988 (2nd ed., New Haven, c.2004). Bentley (Gerald Eades), The Stranger from Paradise; A Biography of William Blake (New Haven, c.2001). Eaves (Morris) (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge, 2003).

Keymer (Thomas) and Mee (Jon) (eds), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge, 2004). Roe (Nicholas) (ed.), Romanticism; An Oxford Guide (Oxford, 2005). O'Neill (Michael) (ed.), Literature of the Romantic Period; A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford, c.1998 and reprinted).

Beer (John), Blake's Humanism (Manchester, 1968). Beer (John), Romantic Consciousness; Blake to Mary Shelley (Houndmills, 2003). Bindman (David), Blake as an Artist (Oxford, 1977); see also his 'Blake as Painter', in Eaves (Morris) (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge, 2003). 3 Bindman (David), 'My own mind is my own church': Blake, Paine and the French Revolution' in Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest (eds), Reflections of Revolution; Images of Romanticism (London, 1993). Brown (Marshall), Preromanticism (Stanford, Cal., 1991); see also his 'Romanticism and Enlightenment', in Curran (Stuart) (ed.), The Cam- bridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge, 1993). Bruder (Helen P.), William Blake and the Daughters of Albion (Houndmills, 1997). Chandler (James K.), Romantic Metropolis; The Urban Scene of British Culture (Cambridge, 2005). Cooper (Andrew M.), 'Irony and False Consciousness', in his Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry (New Haven, 1988), Chap. 2. Cooper (Andrew M.), 'Blake and Madness: The World Turned Inside Out', ELH, 57 (1990), 585-642. Curran (Stuart), Poetic Form and British Romanticism (Oxford, 1986). De Luca (Vincent Arthur), Words of Eternity; Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime (Princeton, 1991). England (M.W.), and Sparrow (J.), Hymns Unbidden; Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers (New York, 1966). Erdman (David), Blake, Prophet Against Empire; A poet's Interpretation of the History of his Own Times (3rd rev. ed., Princeton, N.J., 1977). Everest (K.D.), 'Thel's Dilemma', Essays in Criticism, 37 (1987), pp. 193-208. Ferber (Michael), The Social Vision of William Blake (Princeton, N.J., c. 1985). Ferber (Michael), The Poetry of William Blake (Penguin Books; Harmonds- worth, 1991). Fox (Susan), Poetic Form in Blake's 'Milton' (Princeton, 1976). Frosch (Thomas R.), The Awakening of Albion; The Renovation of the Body in the Poetry of William Blake (Ithaca, 1974). Frye (Northrop), Fearful Symmetry (Princeton, 1947). Fuller (David), Blake's Heroic Argument (London, c.1988). Gleckner (Robert F.), Blake's Prelude: 'Poetical Sketches' (Baltimore and London, 1982). Glen (Heather), Vision and Disenchantment; Blake's 'Songs' and Wordsworth's 'Lyrical Ballads' (Cambridge, 1983). Hilton (Nelson), Literal Imagination; Blake's Vision of Words (Berkeley and London, c.1983). Hirsch (E.D., Jr.), Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake (2nd rev. ed., Chicago, 1975). Hollander (John), 'Blake and the Metrical Contract', in F.W. Hilles and Harold Bloom (eds), From Sensibility to Romanticism; Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (New York, 1965). 4 Howard (John), Infernal Poetics; Poetic Structures in Blake's Lambeth Pro- phecies (Cranbury, N.J., c.1984). Keach (William), Arbitrary Power; Romanticism, Language, Politics (Princeton, 2004). Leader (Z.), Reading Blake's Songs (London, 1981). Leavis (F.R.), 'Justifying One's Valuation of Blake' (1971), in his The Critic as Anti-Philosopher; Essays & Papers, ed G. Singh (London, 1982), pp. 1- 23; also in Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips (eds), William Blake; Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Oxford, 1973), pp. 66-85. Lincoln (Andrew), Spiritual History; A Reading of William Blake's 'Vala' or 'The Four Zoas' (Oxford, 1995).

McGann (Jerome J.), 'The Aim of Blake's Prophecies and the Uses of Blake Criticism', in Stuart Curran and J.A. Wittreich, Jr. (eds), Blake's Sublime Allegory; Essays on The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem (Madison, Wis., 1973), pp. 3-21. Mee (Jon), Dangerous Enthusiasm; William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford, c.1992). Paley (Morton D.), The Continuing City; William Blake's 'Jerusalem' (Oxford, 1983). Paley (Morton D.), The Traveller in the Evening; The Last Works of William Blake (Oxford, 2004). Phillips (Michael), William Blake; The Creation of the Songs, from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (London, 2000). Price (Martin), To the Palace of Wisdom; Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to Blake (New York, 1964). Richardson (Alan), 'The Politics of Childhood: Wordsworth, Blake, and Cat- echistic Method', ELH, 56 (1989), 853-68. Thompson (E.P.), Witness Against the Beast; William Blake and the Moral Law (Cambridge, 1993). Wolfson (Susan J.), 'Sketching Verbal Form: Blake's Poetical Sketches', in her Formal Charges; The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford, 1997), Chap. 2.

J.H. Prynne, July 2006

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