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AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY E23 NUMBER 3 WINTER 1989/90 BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERL Y Winter 1989/90 CONTRIBUTORS KRZYSZTOF Z. CIESZKOWSKI is a curator in the Library of the Tate Gal• lery, London, and has recently pub• lished studies of Joseph Wright of Derby, Lady Butler, and the £%UB prizefighter Bendigo. DETLEF W. DORRBECKER teaches AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY the history of Western art at the University of Trier. His forthcoming VOLUME 23 NUMBER 3 WINTER 1989/90 articles include studies of Flaxman's critique of Bernini in the Lectures on Sculpture and of the engravers' strug• CONTENTS gle for full membership in the Royal Academy of Art, 1769-c. 1850. ARTICLES 120 Blake and His Circle: An Annotated Checklist of Recent Publications by D. W. Dorrbecker 166 "They murmuring divide; while the wind sleeps beneath, and the numbers are counted in silence"— The Dispersal of the Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Krzysztof Z. Cieszkowski © 1990 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Winter 1989/90 BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY Manuscripts are welcome. Send two EDITORS INFORMATION copies, typed and documented ac• cording to the forms suggested in The MIA Style Manual, to either of the Editors: Morris Eaves, University of Managing Editor: Patricia Neill; editors: Morris Eaves, Dept. of English, Rochester, and Morton D. Paley, editorial assistant, Michael Zagar University of Rochester, Rochester, NY University of California, Berkeley. 14627; Morton D. Paley, Dept. of Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly is English, University of California, Bibliographer: Detlef W. Dorrbecker, published under the sponsorship of Berkeley, CA 94720. Only one copy Universitat Trier, West Germany. the Department of English, University will be returned to authors. Please of Rochester. send disks if your manuscript was Review Editor: Nelson Hilton, typed on a computer; note the name University of Georgia, Athens. 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David Worrall, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX, England. 120 BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRA TED QUARTERL Y Winter 1989/90 Blake and His Circle: An Annotated Checklist of Recent Publications By D. W. Dorrbecker n a letter to Clare Sydney Smith, 1980. Many 1988 issues of scholarly other sections of this current checklist Idated 6 March 1932, T. E. Shaw journals were inaccessible to me while will now be treated more selectively reported on the progress he was then being bound; these will be examined than in previous years. In the future, I making with the compilation of his and the results included in next year's will not include every essay on Cow- Notes of the 200 Class, a handbook for checklist. per that I happen to track down, nor the use of the Royal Air Force's power Readers will note a few changes in will I try to list every review of a study boats. Along with the author of Seven the organization and selection of of, say, West. For this year's checklist, Pillars of Wisdom, I too may say: "Ever material. While in character and I have disregarded various articles and so dull, these bibliographical notes, coverage part I remains essentially the dissertations concerned with Cowper, and entirely impersonal. Nobody same, I have now decided to merge Godwin, West, and Wollstonecraft. could guess that anybody had written former parts II (Blake's Circle) and III Since no other bibliographical aid to them. They seem just to have collected (Related Interest). Their respective research that is known to me gives themselves." However, the sheer num• contents have been reorganized into easy access to the few books, cata• ber of entries which, year after year, three main sections that make up what logues, and articles published annual• "collect themselves" in these annual is now part II: general studies of the ly on Barry, Calvert, Cromek, George reports on the current state of Blake history, art, and literature of Blake's Cumberland, Erasmus Darwin (the scholarship is quite amazing. Thirteen times, arranged alphabetically by study of whose scientific works mostly years after the publication of Blake author; this is followed by a list of goes unnoticed in, say, the MLA Inter• Books, G. E. Bentley's dictum that books and articles on some of Blake's national Bibliography), Flaxman, "Blake has become a growth-industry" contemporaries (the "inner" and Fuseli, Hayley, Linnell, Mortimer, Pal• still holds true. However, while we "outer" circles in which he moved), mer, Richmond, Romney, Stothard, have been witnessing a change from a which is keyed to the names of the Swedenborg, Thomas Taylor, and Var- cottage industry to what threatens to authors and artistswho are the subject ley, these will still be featured with as be a factory one, there certainly seems of the respective studies. The third and few omissions as possible. However, to be no shortage of new approaches shortest section of part II is a miscel• publications concerned with Cowper's for analyzing and understanding (or, lany (again alphabetized by author poetry and his letters in general, with at least, for describing in revolutionary rather than subject); it mostly records Godwin's novels (as opposed to his new terminologies) Blake's works as contributions that have some bearing political and philosophical writings), an engraver, painter, and poet. on our knowledge of the history of with the non-British periods in Paine's I worked on the present edition of Blake studies. While for this section I or Priestley's political careers, with this continuing report on "Blake and ignored, for example, Kathleen some highly specialized questions His Circle" both at the University of Raine's "Recent Poems" (as I have concerning the writings of Mary Rochester Library and the Huntington skipped her latest book, The Presence, Wollstonecraft or the art of Angelica Library in March 1989, and at Trier and associated reviews), I have in• Kauffmann, or Benjamin West, etc., University Library from May to August cluded a dissertation concerned with will not be represented in these reports 1989. Chronologically, coverage in the literary traditions at work in the in the future. Such partial selectiveness this year's checklist runs roughly paral• same author's creative writing since I will allow me to supply more exten• lel with the publication of Blake's assume that such a study will contain sive annotations to the entries in part volume 22. As before, I have not inter• some discussion of Raine's indebted• I, similar to those in the present issue. preted the term "recent publications" ness to Blake or Thomas Taylor. Most of these notes are—or at least in its narrowest sense, and I list articles While I shall continue to attempt are meant to be—descriptive; with and reviews published as long ago as "absolute inclusiveness" in part I, the only a few sentences, often employing Winter 1989/90 BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRA TED QUARTERL Y 121 quotations from the authors themsel• title. Occasionally, however, it may Mann, James McCord, Anne Mellor, ves, I have tried to give some idea of seem appropriate to include one of the Jeanne Moskal, Morton Paley, what to expect from a closer reading. short book notes from a monthly pub• Francois Piquet, Kathleen Raine, Den• Readers will be aware that with the lication such as Choice even for these nis Read, Sheila Spector, Michael Tol- limited space available for such an• studies if no other and more com• ley, Pam van Schaik, Joseph Viscomi, notation I may have occasionally mis• prehensive review of a recently pub• Dennis Welch, and David Worrall, all represented an author's intentions. lished monograph is known to me. of whom have made important con• And yet, I hope that my brief sum• It is for the benefit of those readers tributions to the present issue of this maries will function as a temptation to of the annual checklists who use them continuing guide to current Blake study more of a book or an essay, as a reference tool that I have included scholarship.
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