AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY A Bibliography for the Study of VALA/The Four Zoas Book and Exhibition Reviews uittunuo rtmvinoju VOLUME 41 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2007-08 £$Ue AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY vwvw.blakequarterly.org VOLUME 41 NUMBER 3 WINTER 2007-08 CONTENTS Article [Robert C. Brandeis,] William Blake and His Contemporaries: A Bibliography for the Study of VALA/The lour Zoas An Exhibition Selected from the Bentley Collection at By Justin Van Kleeck 100 Victoria University, Victoria University Library, Toronto Reviewed by C S. Matheson 131 Reviews Magnus Ankarsjo, William Blake and Gender Reviewed by G. A. Rosso 133 Jennifer Davis Michael, Blake and the City Reviewed by Michael Berber 125 Minute Particular Jeremy Tambling, Blake's Night Thought* Reviewed by Wayne C. Ripley 127 The Lust judgment by"B. Blake" By Morton D. Palcv 135 Jason Allen Snart, The Torn Book: UtlReading William Blake's Marginalia Reviewed by Jennifer Davis Michael 129 Corrigendum To "Blake's 'Annus Mirabilis': The Productions of 1795," Bhke 41.2 (fall 2007) By Joseph Viscomi 135 ADVISORY BOARD (i. 1 •'. Bentley, )i\, University of Toronto, retired Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Martin Butlin, London Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles 1 >etlefW. Dorrbecker, University of Trier Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert N. lssick, University of California, Riverside David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent Universitv Angela Esterhammer, University of Zurich CONTRIBUTORS Morris Eaves, Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Email: [email protected] MICHAEL FERBER is professor of English and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He has recently edited (and Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University of partly translated) the anthology European Romantic Poetry California, Berkeley CA 94720-1030 (New York: Pearson Longman, 2005) and completed the sec• Email: [email protected] ond edition of A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007). He maybe reached at mferber@cisunix. G. E. Bentley, Jr., 246 MacPherson Avenue, Toronto, unh.edu. Ontario M4V 1A2 Canada C. S. MATHESON teaches romantic literature and visual culture Alexander S. Gourlay, Department of English, Rhode Island at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Her current projects School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence RI 02903-2717 on romantic spectatorship include a book on the invention Email: [email protected] of public art exhibition in the period (which does feature Blake) and a collaborative investigation, with Alex McKay, of David Worrall, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham the Claude mirror and constructions of landscape called "The Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS UK Transient Glance" <http://www.claudemirror.com>. Email: [email protected] JENNIFER DAVIS MICHAKL ([email protected]), professor of English at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is the author of Blake and the City (Bucknell UP, 2006). INFORMATION MORTON D. PAI I:Y recently completed Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts, which will be published by Oxford in 2008. BUKE/AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY is published under the spon• sorship of the Department of English, University of Rochester. WAYNE C. 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IOGRAPH1 K: G. E. Bentley, Jr. lustrated Quarterly is indexed in the Modern Language Associ• ivi vii w i Di IOU: Alexander S. Gourlay ation's International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities Re• search Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language ASSOCIATE EDITOR I OK GR1 AT BRITAIN: David Worrall and Literature, Humanities International Complete, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents and the Bibliogra• PRODUCTION OIIK i: Department of English, Morey 410, phy of the History of Art. University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 MANAOINO EDITOR: Sarah Jones [email protected] in BPHONB: 585/275-3820 IAX: 585/442-5769 © 2008 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley ARTICLE and articles, videotapes, sound recordings, or librettos—as long as they satisfy the other criteria. Materials may be in any language; I have tried to identify the language when it is not English and, when possible, to provide an English trans• A Bibliography for the Study of lation. As for editions of Blake's writings as a whole or of his po• VALA/The Four Zoas ems exclusively, I have not, except in one case (see below), in• cluded those that provide only a selection of the VALA/Four Zoas manuscript text. Usually selected editions do not involve BY JUSTIN VAN KLEECK a fresh version of the text prepared in direct consultation of the manuscript. Indeed, many selections often derive in some way from previous complete editions prepared by other edi• Author's note: This bibliography is also online in an expanded tors. Additionally, selections may allow for a study of some version—including reviews, which have been omitted from particular portion of what Blake wrote, but they do not allow the print version because of space limitations—at the journals for a fully informed engagement with the work as a textual web site <http://www.blakequarterly.org>, where it will be whole. Moreover, tracking down every selected edition of updated yearly. Blake's poetry, in every revision and/or reprint, was an over• whelming prospect too daunting at this point for this bibli• HE intended purpose of this bibliography is to provide ographer. While the editions of W. H. Stevenson and Alicia T a resource for close study of Blake's manuscript work Ostriker derive from the text of David Erdman's The Poetry VALA/The Four Zoas through a multitude of possible ap• and Prose of William Blake, they do represent the manuscript proaches: bibliographical, textual, social reception, etc. In text in its entirety—and each has been "edited" from Erdman's preparing this list, I have attempted to be as comprehensive original in a multitude of ways. I have made a single exception as possible in terms of the date and nature of the materials for John Sampson's 1905 edition, with its 1913 revised com• included, but also selective about what is and is not most rel• panion. I have included Sampson's edition(s) because, first, evant to the study of this particular Blakean production. most other editors and scholars have pinpointed Sampson's as While in general I have tended to err on the side of liberal• the first "reliable," scholarly edition of Blake's writings, which ity, I have followed several key guidelines in deciding what makes his selected text of "7he Four Zoas" more relevant, per• to include. The most important criterion is that the second• haps, than other selected versions, and second, D. J. Sloss and ary work must be devoted to some component of VALA/The ). P. R. Wallis's Prophetic Writings (finally published in 1926) Four Zoas, whether in its entirety (as in a monograph or ar• originated as a companion/follow-up to Sampson's edition ticle), in a distinct part (as in a book or dissertation chapter), of Blake's poems. Weighing these two particulars, I felt that or in the course of a close investigation along with perhaps Sampson's selected text deserved a place in the list. For all one or two other works by Blake. Thus many critical works editions cited, I have recorded only the first edition's full in• often considered fundamental to Blake studies in general do formation and then, in my comments, noted years of later not appear here—e.g., Frye's Fearful Symmetry or Erdman's reprints, revised or not, except when the revision invoked a Blake: Prophet against Empire. An item need not have been change in the title (see, e.g., Keynes, Erdman, and Stevenson) "published," per se, but it must be available in some format or other publication details. from at least one institution (however easy or difficult ob• My goal has been comprehensiveness, and for my biblio• taining the item might be).