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Born in November 28, 1757 / Died in August 12, 1827 / United Kingdom / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Bibliography

  • Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of William Blake (New York: Grolier Club, 1921).
  • Keynes and Edwin Wolf, William Blake's Illuminated Books: A Census (New York: Grolier Club, 1953).
  • Keynes, Engravings by William Blake: The Separate Plates (Dublin: E. Walker, 1956).
  • G. E. Bentley, Jr., and Martin K. Nurmi, A Blake Bibliography: Annotated Lists of Works, Studies, and Blakeana (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964).
  • Bentley, Blake Books (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977).
  • Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake: Pictor Ignotus, 2 volumes (London: Macmillan, 1863; enlarged, 1880).
  • Mona Wilson, The Life of William Blake (London: Nonesuch Press, 1927); third edition, edited by Geoffrey Keynes (London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
  • G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Records (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).
  • Geoffrey Keynes, Blake Studies: Essays on His Life and Work, second edition, revised and enlarged (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
  • Michael Davis, William Blake: A New Kind of Man (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).
  • Hazard Adams, Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955).
  • Adams, William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1963).
  • Thomas Altizier, The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1974).
  • John Beer, Blake's Humanism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1968).
  • G. E. Bentley, ed., William Blake: The Critical Heritage (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975).
  • Harold Bloom, Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963).
  • Bloom, The Visionary Company, revised edition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971).
  • Bloom, ed., Modern Critical Views: William Blake (New York: Chelsea House, 1985).
  • Anthony Blunt, The Art of William Blake, Hampton Lectures in America, no. 12 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959).
  • Jacob Bronowski, William Blake and the Age of Revolution (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972).
  • Stuart Curran and Joseph Wittreich, Jr., eds., Blake's Sublime Allegory: Essays on the Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973).
  • Samuel Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake (Providence: Brown University Press, 1965).
  • Damon, William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924).
  • John Davies, The Theology of William Blake (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948).
  • George Digby, Symbol and Image in William Blake (New York: Oxford University Press, 1957).
  • Deborah Dorfman, Blake in the Nineteenth Century: His Reputation as a Poet from Gilchrist to Yeats (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969).
  • David Erdman, Blake: Prophet Against Empire, revised edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969).
  • Erdman, ed., A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake, 2 volumes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967).
  • Erdman and John E. Grant, eds., Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
  • Robert Essick, The Visionary Hand: Essays for the Study of William Blake's Art and Aesthetics (Los Angeles: Hennesy & Ingalls, 1973).
  • Peter Fisher, The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary, edited by Northrop Frye, University of Toronto Department of English Studies and Texts, no. 9 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961).
  • Thomas Forsch, The Awakening of Albion: The Renovation of the Body in the Poetry of William Blake (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974).
  • Susan Fox, Poetic Form in Blake's Milton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976).
  • Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947).
  • Frye, ed., Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays (Engle-wood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1966).
  • Charles Gardner, Vision and Vesture: A Study of William Blake in Modern Thought, revised edition (New York: Dutton, 1929).
  • Stanley Gardner, Infinity on the Anvil: A Critical Study of Blake's Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 1954).
  • D. G. Gillam, Blake's Contrary States: The "Songs of Innocence and Experience" as Dramatic Poems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966).
  • Gillam, William Blake (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973).
  • Robert Gleckner, Blake and Spenser (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).
  • Gleckner, The Piper and the Bard: A Study of William Blake (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959).
  • Jean Hagstrum, William Blake: Poet and Painter, An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).
  • George Harper, The Neoplatonism of William Blake (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961).
  • Raymond Lister, William Blake: An Introduction to the Man and His Work (London: Bell, 1968).
  • Anne Katherine Mellor, Blake's Human Form Divine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).
  • W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).
  • Martin K. Nurmi, Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Critical Study (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1957).
  • Nurmi, William Blake (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976).
  • Alicia Ostriker, Vision and Verse in William Blake (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965).
  • Morton D. Paley, Energy and Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blake's Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970).
  • Paley, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations on "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" (Engle-wood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1969).
  • Paley and Michael Phillips, eds., William Blake Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
  • Milton Percival, William Blake's Circle of Destiny (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938).
  • Vivian De Sola Pinta, ed., The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake (London: Gollancz, 1957).
  • Kathleen Raine, Blake and Tradition, 2 volumes, A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1962 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).
  • Alvin Rosenfeld, ed., William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon (Providence: Brown University Press, 1969).
  • A. G. B. Russell, The Engravings of William Blake (London: Richards, 1912).
  • Denis Saurat, Blake and Milton (Bordeaux: Y. Cadoret, 1920; New York: MacVeagh/Dial, 1924).
  • Mark Schorer, William Blake: The Politics of Vision (New York: Vintage Books, 1959).
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Blake (London: J. C. Hotlen, 1868).
  • Leslie Tannenbaum, Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982).
  • Ruthven Todd, "The Techniques of William Blake's Illuminated Printing," Print, 6, no. 1 (1948): 53-65.
  • Thomas Vogler, Preludes to Vision: The Epic Venture in Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Hart Crane (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).
  • David Wagenknecht, Blake's Night: William Blake and the Idea of the Pastoral (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1973).
  • Joseph Wicksteed, Blake's Innocence and Experience (New York: Dutton, 1928).
  • Wicksteed, Blake's Vision of the Book of Job (London: Dent, 1910).
  • Joseph Wittreich, Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of Milton (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975).