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Issues) and Begin with the Summer Issue AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY tvA His C7 '/\ ^ PtTB SUO^' VOLUME 42 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2008 &Uk e AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY www.blakequarterly.org VOLUME 42 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2008 CONTENTS Article William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 2007 By G. E. Bentley, Jr., with the Assistance ofHikari Sato for Japanese Publications 4 ADVISORY BOARD G. E. Bentley, Jr., University of Toronto, retired Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Martin Butlin, London Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles 1 )etlef \V. 1 )orrbecker, University of Trier Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside David Worrall,The Nottingham Trent University Angela Esterhammer, University of Zurich CONTRIBUTOR David Worrall, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS UK Email: [email protected] G. E. BENTLEY, JR., is preparing camera-ready copy for Thus Spake William Blake: Conversations with the Quick and the Dead. INFORMATION BLAKE/AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY is published under the spon• sorship of the Department of English, University of Roches• ter. Subscriptions are $60 for institutions, $30 for individu• als. All subscriptions are by the volume (1 year, 4 issues) and begin with the summer issue. Subscription payments received after the summer issue will be applied to the current volume. Addresses outside the US, Canada, and Mexico require a $20 per volume postal surcharge for airmail delivery. Credit card payment is available. Make checks payable to Blake/An Illus• trated Quarterly. Address all subscription orders and related communications to Sarah Jones, Blake, Department of Eng• lish, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451. Back issues are available; address Sarah Jones for information on issues and prices, or consult the web site. 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Gourlay, Department of English, Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence RI 02903-2717 Email: [email protected] ARTICLE Hebrew are still undisturbed in their comfortable dust—but I was astonished by how many there were and how many of them had heard of William Blake. But I never did find DAI. I think it's become virtual. William Blake and His Circle: The foreign languages of Blake scholarship recorded here are Dutch (3), Flemish (6), French (5), German (7), Hungar• A Checklist of Publications and ian (4), Italian (6), Japanese (19—plus 6 essays in English in Discoveries in 2007 Japanese journals), Korean (4), Polish (1), Portuguese (1), Ro• manian (1), Russian (1), Spanish (6), Swedish (2), and Turk• ish (1). BY G. E. BENTLEY, JR. There are 19 doctoral dissertations recorded here from the universities of California (Santa Barbara), Duke, Emo• ry, Glasgow, Leicester, Ohio State, Oxford, Rochester, Seoul, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIKARI SATO State University of New York (Binghamton, Buffalo [2]), FOR JAPANESE PUBLICATIONS Tennessee, Tulsa, Ulster, Universidad Complutense de Ma• drid, Vanderbilt, Warwick, and Washington. Dissertations from outside North America and Britain are probably seri• Blake Publications and Discoveries in 2007 ously underrepresented here, particularly those from Japan and Korea. As I was walking among the fires of hell, or rather the Uni• versity of Toronto Library reference room stacks, delighted New Journals with Blake Essays with the enjoyments of Genius, which to undergraduates look like torment and insanity, I tried to collect some of their Prov• In dutifully checking for new Blake books in WorldCat, I erbs from Aristotle's Analytics, or rather from Dissertation Ab• discovered that it has a separate listing of essays. There were stracts International. But DAI had gone walkabout. 613 essays listed on William Blake, many of which have not How can an elephantine mass like DAI, many scores of vol• been recorded before. Numbers of these essays are for Wil• umes, go missing? They couldn't have gone far. I cast about liam Blakes who have nothing to do with the poet, such as a in the neighborhood where they were last seen—and bumped resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a settler in the Transvaal. into the Guide to Indian Periodical Literature for 1964 to 2007. However, a couple of score of the WorldCat essays are about So that's where all those Indian scholars have been lurking all William Blake the poet-artist. I was chagrined to find so many these years! which had been previously overlooked but relieved to observe Some of the Indian Blake scholars are well known, such as that many of them are in journals which had never before car• Piloo Nanavutty and A. A. Ansari, but most are entirely unre• ried an article on Blake and are improbable as lodgings for a corded in Blake literature in the west. poet or a painter. And the journals too are unfamiliar. Aligarh Critical Mis• The journals which had never before been recorded in bib• cellany and Aligarh Journal of English Studies, both edited by liographies of Blake—or at least in BB, BBS. and "William Ansari, are well enough known—even in the University of Blake and His Circle" (1992-2007)—include ALAN Review, Toronto Library—and the Times of India is of course familiar American journal of Psychiatry, Bulletin of the History of Medi• to anyone who has lived in India. But most of the rest are en• cine, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Compara• tirely new to me: Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute tive American Studies, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Jour• of Culture, Prabuddha Bharata, journal of the I University oj the nal of Literary Semantics, Journal of Lranspersonal Psychology, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda. And many jour• Literature and Medicine, Month, New York State Journal of nals have titles which do not hint that they are Indian, such as Medicine, Paper Conservator, Psychoanalytic Review, Quad• journal of I ilcruturc and Aesthetics (Kerala) and Theosophist rant, Revue germanique Internationale, Soho Annual, Topic, (Madras) and Literary Criterion (Mysore) and thought. What and Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of a treasure house, a bibliographer's Tom Tiddler's ground, Philadelphia. picking up gold and silver at ever)' turn of the page. Notice how many of these newly recorded journals are con• And cheek by jowl with the Guide to Indian Periodical Lit• cerned with medicine or with psychiatry. Plainly the nets cast erature were hundreds of volumes of encyclopedias which I'd for Blake studies have missed a rich—or fairly rich—hunting never seen before, in Portuguese and Swedish and Turkish ground. and Italian and German. I think they must have been resur• There were extensive public celebrations of Blake's anniver• rected from the stacks where they had been snoozing quietly sary. Probably the most lastingly notable of these were two and inoffensively. I only looked at encyclopedias of more than editions oi Jerusalem published on the same day, Blake's 250th 20 volumes ^\nc\ in scripts 1 could read—those in Arabic and birthday. 4 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Summer 2008 Blake's Writings a great deal of value for the most sophisticated scholars and critics. The most exciting Blake discovery of the year was of eight previously unknown versions of color prints finished in wa- Blake's Art tercolors, with prints from The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The First Book of Urizen. With them are One of the more startling discoveries about Blake's art re• 13 otherwise unknown lines of text by Blake, including "Who corded here was in fact made as long ago as 1930. Blake's de• shall set the Prisoners Free" on Marriage pi. 16 and "Fearless signs surrounding and indeed penetrating his text have long tho in Pain I travel on" on Urizen pi. 23. Neither phrase ap• been compared to the techniques of medieval book illumina• pears in Blake's other surviving works. tors, and occasionally attempts have been made to show that They probably came from "A Small Book of Designs" copy Blake was consciously imitating such works. But before 1930, B. Copy A has 23 prints, including Marriage pi. 16 and Urizen and indeed after 1930, no one had argued that Blake himself pi. 23, with no inscriptions. Copy B, as we previously knew actually made illuminations for medieval manuscripts or it, had 11 prints (lacking Marriage pi.
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