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Issue of the Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation wamrn^^^^1^ IS f' // £8Ue AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY 57 Volume IS Number 1 Summer 1981 DETLEF w. DOERRBECKER is an Associate Lecturer in the history of art at Trier University. Currently he is trying hard to get together a study of Blake's principles of color composition. DAVID v. ERDMAN*s new edition of Blake's poetry £8Ue and prose is scheduled for publication in November. A facsimile of The Four Zoas (with commentary), AH ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY 57 co-edited with Cettina Magno, is in press. Volume 15 Number 1 ROBERT N. ESSICK is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His catalogue Summer 1981 of Blake's separate plates is forthcoming from Princeton Univ. Press. NELSON HILTON'S "Blake in the Chains of Being" CONTENTS should be appearing in the current issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. New Information on Blake's Illuminated Books by Robert N. Essick, 4 MARTIN K. NURMI teaches at Kent State University. Blake and the Names Divine JUDITH PAGE is an Assistant Professor of English by H. Summerfield, 14 at Millsaps College. A Victorian Blake Facsimile MORTON D. PALEY is co-author, with Robert N. by Morton D. Pa ley, 24 Essick, of Robert Blair's The Grave with the Illustrations of William Blake: a Study with Facsimile (London: Scolar Press, 1981). REVIEWS HENRY SUMMERFIELD teaches English at the University of Victoria, B. C, and is the author of That Romantic Context: Poetry Myriad-minded Man: A Biography of George William Garland Facsimiles Selected and Arranged by Russell "A.E." and An Introductory Guide to The Donald H. Reiman Anathemata and the Sleeping Lord Sequence of David Jones. 1 The Garland Facsimiles of the Poetry of James Montgomery JOSEPH WITTREICH (Professor of English at the Reviewed by Judy Page, 28 University of Maryland, Colleae Park) is the author of Angel of Apocalypse and 2 The Garland Facsimiles of the Poetry of Visionary Poetics. Erasmus Darwin Reviewed by Nelson Hilton, 36 DAVID WORRALL teaches in Newcastle Upon Tyne. His article on Blake's imagery of the stars will 3 The Garland Facsimiles of the Poetry of be appearing in Bulletin of Research in the William Hayley Humanities. Reviewed by Joseph Wittreich, 48 Kathleen Raine, Blake and the New Age Reviewed by Martin K. Nurmi, 51 Fuseli, The Swiss, And The British: Some Recent Publications Reviev/ed by Detlef W. Doerrbecker, 53 The Marlborough College Production of The Ghost Right: Notes, The Economy of Vegetation. of Abel Reviewed by David Worrall, 56 Far right: The Economy of Vegetation, Canto I. DISCUSSION Cover: Milton, pi. 13. Separate imoression, previously unrecorded. White-line etching, 15.9 x Let the Dead Ardours Live! 11.1 cm., second state, printed in three colors. by David V. Erdman, 58 Philadelphia Museum of Art. NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTORS ©Copyright 1981 by Morris Eaves & Morton D. Pa ley EDITORS Argument of the Firji Canto. EDITORS: Morris Eaves, Univ. of New Mexico, and Morton D. Paley, Univ. of California, Berkeley. 1 HE Genius of the place invites the Goddefs of Bo• tany, i. She defcends, is received by Spring, and the Elements, 59. BIBLIOGRAPHER: Thomas L. Minnick, Ohio State Univ AddreiTes the Nymphs of Fire. Star-light Night feen in the Camera Obfcura, 81. I. Love created the Univerfe. Chaos explodes. All the Stars revolve. God. 97. II. Shooting Stars. Lightning. REVIEW EDITOR: Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Georgia, Rainbow. Colours of the Morning and Evening Skies. Exterior Athens. Atmofphere of inflammable Air. Twilight. Fire-balls. Aurora Borealis. Planets. Comets. Fixed Stars. Sun's Orb, 11c. HI. 1. Fires at the Earth's Centre. Animal Incubation, 137. 2. ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR GREAT BRITAIN: Frances A. Volcanic Mountains. Venus vifits the Cyclops, 149. IV. Heat confined on the Earth by the Air. Phofphoric lights in the Even• Carey, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints ing. Bolognian Stone. Calcined Shells. Memnon's Harp, 173. and Drawings, British Museum. Ignis fatuus. Luminous Flowers. Glow-worm. Fire-fly. Lu• minous Sea-infects. Electric Eel. Eagle armed with Lightning, 189. V. 1. Difcovery of Fire. Medufa, 209. 2. The chemical PRODUCTION OFFICE: Morris Eaves, Department of Properties of Fire. Phofphorus. Lady in Love, 223. 3. Gun• English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, powder, 237. VI. Steam-engine applied to Pumps, Bellows, Water-engines, Corn-mills, Coining, Barges, Waggons, Flying- NM 87131, TELEPHONE 505/277-3103. chariots, 253. Labours of Hercules. Abyla and Calpe, 297. VII. Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University j. Electric Machine. 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Send two copies, typed they were projected from chaos by exptofion, Mr. Boulton's fleam-engine foi the pur- and the planets projected from them : pofe of coining would Lave many lives from and documented according to the forms suggested An atmofphere of inflammable air above the the executioner common arjrtofpherc principally about the polei i Labours of Hercules of carat antiquity. in the MLA Style Sheet, 2nd. ed., to either of the Twilight fifty miles high. Wants further Pillars of Hercules. Surface of the MeJ.t'- editors: Morris Eaves, Dept. of English, Univ. ranean lower than the Atlantic. Abvla aod Ioiroedijte caufe of volcanos from fleam CaJpc. Flood of Deucalion of New Mexico, Albuquerque N.M. 87131; Morton D. and other vapours. They prcrent greater Accumulation of electricity not fiom fnc. earthquakes I Paley, Dept. of English, Univ. of California Conductors of heat. 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