CONTENTS Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 2, Fall 2007, pp. 49-51, 96 AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY ** Fitting the Pieces Together: The Works of 1795 VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2 FALL 2007 £%Uie AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY www.blakequarterly.org VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2 FALL 2007 CONTENTS Article Minute Particular Blake's "Annus Mirabilis": The Productions of 1795 The Sketch on the Verso of Blake's Self-Portrait: An By Joseph Viscomi 52 Identification By M. Crosby 92 Reviews Newsletter Folio Society Edition of Night Thoughts: The Poem by Edward Young Illustrated with Watercolours by Companion of Angels Performances 95 William Blake Reviewed by Karen Mulhallen 84 Michael Bedard, William Blake: The Gates of Paradise Reviewed by Elizabeth B. Bentley 91 ADVISORY BOARD G. E. Bentley, Jr., University of Toronto, retired Nelson 1 lilton, University of Georgia Martin Butlin, London Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles Detlef W. Dorrbecker, University of Trier Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside I )avid Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University Angela Esterhammer, University ol Zurich CONTRIBUTORS G. E. Bentley, Jr., 246 MacPherson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4V 1A2 Canada JOSEPH VISCOMI is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Profes- Alexander S. Gourlay, Department of English, Rhode Island sor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence RI 02903-2717 North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He coedits the William Blake Email: [email protected] Archive with Morris Eaves and Robert N. Essick, with whom he also coedited volumes 3 and 5 (1993) of the Blake Trust's David Worrall, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham William Blake's Illuminated Books. He is the author of Prints Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS UK by Blake and His Followers (1983), Blake and the Idea of the Email: [email protected] Book (1993), and numerous essays on Blake's illuminated printing, color printing, and mid-nineteenth century market and reputation. INFORMATION KAREN MULHALLEN ([email protected]) is professor of English at Ryerson University and at the University of To- ronto, as well as professor in the Joint Graduate Programme BL\KE/AS ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY is published under the spon- in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Univer- sorship of the Department of English, University of Roches- sities. After many decades of thoughts by day, she has returned ter. Subscriptions are $60 for institutions, $30 for individu- to her earlier work in night thinking and is now completing als. All subscriptions are by the volume (1 year, 4 issues) and a critical study of the whole composite Blake-Young Night begin with the summer issue. Subscription payments received Thoughts series. after the summer issue will be applied to the current volume. Addresses outside the US, Canada, and Mexico require a $15 ELIZABETH B. BENTLEY has worked on Blake with her husband in per volume postal surcharge for surface delivery, or $20 for libraries around the world; she specializes in research on long- airmail. Credit card payment is available. Make checks pay- lost (sometimes still lost) works, including The Ladies New and able to Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. Address all subscription Polite Pocket Memorandum-Book (1782), The First Book ofUri- orders and related communications to Sarah Jones, Blake, De- zen (E), "The Ancient Britons," and Blake's Grave watercolors. partment of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451. Back issues are available; address Sarah Jones for M. CROSBY ([email protected]) is information on issues and prices, or consult the web site. just completing his DPhil at Oxford on the three-year peri- od Blake spent in Felpham under the patronage of William MANUSCRIPTS are welcome in either hard copy or electronic Hayley. form. Send two copies, typed and documented according to forms suggested in the MIA Style Manual, and with pages numbered, to either of the editors. No articles will be returned EDITORS unless accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. For electronic submissions, you may send a disk, or send your article as an attachment to an email message; please number EDITORS: Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley the pages of electronic submissions. The preferred file format BIBLIOGRAPHER: G. E. Bentley, Jr. is RTF; other formats are usually acceptable. REVIEW EDITOR: Alexander S. Gourlay ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR GREAT BRITAIN: David Worrall INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER: 0160-628x. Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly is indexed in the Modern Language Asso- PRODUCTION OFFICE: Department of English, Morey 410, ciation's International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Lan- MANAGING EDITOR: Sarah Jones [email protected] guage and Literature, Humanities International Complete, TELEPHONE: 585/275-3820 FAX: 585/442-5769 Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents and the Bibliography of the History of Art. Morris Eaves, Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0451 Email: [email protected] © 2007 Copyright Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University of Cover: Photo illustration from The Song of Los copy B, plate 8. California, Berkeley CA 94720-1030 Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Email: [email protected] © Copyright 2005, William Blake Archive. John Howard 1934-2007 .