Useful Books for the Study of William Blake

Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.
1953; rpt. London: Oxford UP, 1976.

---. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in

Romantic Literature. New York: Norton, 1971.

Ackroyd, Peter. Blake

Adams, Hazard. Critical Essays on William Blake. Boston: G.K.

Hall, 1991.

---. "The Dizziness of Freedom; or, Why I Read William Blake."

College English 48, no. 5 (Sept 1986): 431-43.

---. "The Mental Traveller." In William Blake: A Reading of the

Shorter Poems. Seattle: Univ. of Wash, 1963. 77-100

----. Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic. Tallahassee:

University Presses of Florida, 1983.

Adamson, Arthur. "Structure and Meaning in Blake's 'The Mental

Traveller.'" Mosaic 7 (1974): 41-58.

Altizer, Thomas J. J. The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian

Vision of William Blake. Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1967.

Ault, Donald D. Visionary Physics: Blake's Response to Newton.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Bateman, Arthur B. "The Spiritual Genius of William Blake."

London Quarterly Review 148 (1927): 34-45.

Beer, John. Blake's Visionary Universe. New York: Barnes and

Noble, 1969.

Behrendt, Stephen. Reading William Blake. NY: St Martin's Press, 1992.

Bentley, G. E. Jr. Blake Records. Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1969.

---. Blake Records Supplement: Being New Materials Relating to

the Life of William Blake Discovered Since the Publication of

Blake Records (1969). Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.

---. William Blake

Berger, P. William Blake: Poet and Mystic. Trans. Daniel H.

Cormer. London: Chapman and Hall, 1914.

Billigheimer, Rachel V. Wheels of Eternity: A Comparative Study

of William Blake and William Butler Yeats. NY: St. Martin's,

1990.

Blake, William. Blake's Poetry and Designs. Eds. Mary Lynn

Johnson, and John E. Grant, eds. NY: Norton, 1979.

---. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Ed. David

V. Erdman. Commentary by Harold Bloom. Newly revised ed.

Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1982.

---. The Illuminated Blake. Ed. David V. Erdman. Garden City,

NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1974.

---. Poems of William Blake. Ed. William Butler Yeats. 1905;

rpt. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.

---. The Poems of William Blake. 2nd ed. Ed. W.H. Stevenson.

NY: Longman, 1989.

---. William Blake: Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant

Albion. Blake's Illuminated Books, Vol. 1. Ed. Morton

Paley. William Blake Trust/Princeton UP, 1991.

---. William Blake: The Complete Poems. Ed. Alicia Ostriker.

New York: Penguin, 1977.

Blackstone, Bernard. English Blake. 1949. rpt. Hamden, CT:

Shoestring Press, 1966.

Bloom, Harold. Blake's Apocalypse. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1963.

---. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens.

New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.

Blunt, Anthony. "Blake's "Ancient of Days": The Symbolism of the

Compasses." In The Visionary Hand: Essays for the Study of

William Blake's Art and Aesthetics. Ed. Robert Essick. Los

Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1973. 71-103.

Bottrall, Margaret. The Divine Image: A Study of Blake's

Interpretation of Christianity. Rome: Edizioni Di Storia E

 Letteratura, 1950.

Bouwer, Izak, and Paul McNally. "'The Mental Traveller': Man's

Eternal Journey." Blake: An Illustrated Newsletter Winter

1978-79, 184-192.

Bracher, Mark. Being Form'd: Reading Through Blake's Milton.

Station Hill Press, 1985.

Brooks, Harold F. "Blake and Jung II: The Fall into

Disintegration." Aligarh Critical Miscellany 2 (1989): 158-

74.

Chayes, Irene. "Plato's Statesman Myth in Shelley and Blake."

Comparative Literature 13 (1961), 358-369.

Coleman, Deirdre, and Peter Otto, eds. Imagining Romanticism:

Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms. West

Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1992.

Curran, Stuart. "The Structures of Jerusalem." In Blake's

Sublime Allegory. Ed. Stuart Curran and Joseph Anthony

Wittreich, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.

 329-46.

Damon, S. Foster. William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols.

Boston: HM, 1924.

---. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake.

Ed. Morris Eaves. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979.

Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth. Princeton UP, 1980.

Davies, J. G. The Theology of William Blake. 1948; rpt. Archon

Books, 1966.

DiSalvo, Jackie. War of Titans.

Dorfman, Deborah. "Knowledge and Estimation of Blake during His

Lifetime." In Adams, Critical Essays. 11-21.

Doskow, Minna. William Blake's Jerusalem: Structure and Meaning

in Poetry and Picture. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson

UP, 1982.

Easson, Roger. "William Blake and His Reader in Jerusalem." In

 Blake's Sublime Allegory. Ed. Stuart Curran and Joseph

Anthony Wittreich, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin

Press, 1973.

Ellis, Edwin J. The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography. NY:

McClure, Phillips and Co., 1907.

---, and William Butler Yeats. The Works of William Blake. 3

vols. 1893; rpt. NY: AMS Press, 1973.

Enscoe, Gerald E. "The Content of Vision: Blake's 'Mental

Traveller.'" Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 4, No. 4,

1968, 400-413.

Erdman, David V., ed. Blake and His Bibles. West Cornwall, CT:

Locust Hill Press, 1993????

---. Blake: Prophet Against Empire. 3rd ed. Princeton:

Princeton UP, 1977.

---, et al., eds. A Concordance to the Writings of William

Blake. 2 vols. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

Essick, Robert N. William Blake and the Language of Adam.

Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.

---. William Blake, Printmaker. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.

Ferguson, James. "Prefaces to Jerusalem." In Interpreting Blake.

Ed. Michael Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979. 164-

95.

Fisher, Peter F. The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and

Revolutionary. Ed. Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 1961.

Frosch, Thomas R. The Awakening of Albion: The Renovation of the

Body in the Poetry of William Blake. Ithaca: Cornell UP,

1974.

Frye, Northrop. "Blake's Reading of the Book of Job." In

William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon. Ed. Rosenfeld.

221-34.

Gallant, Christine. Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos.

Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978.

George, Diana Hume. Blake and Freud. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1980.

Gilchrist, Alexander. A Life of William Blake. Vol. 1. 1880;

rpt. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973. 2 vols.

Gillet, Louis. "Un Mystique Anglais: William Blake." Revue Des

Deux Mondes 38 (1937): 190-206.

Goddard, Harold C. Blake's Fourfold Vision. Wallingford, PA:

Pendle Hill, 1956.

Grimes, Ronald L. The Divine Imagination: William Blake's Major

Prophetic Visions. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press and the

American Theological Library Association, 1972.

Helms, Randel. "Blake's Use of the Bible in 'A Song of Liberty'"

English Language Notes 16 (1979): 287-91.

---. "Ezekiel and Blake's Jerusalem." Studies in Romanticism 13

(1974): 127-40.

Hoagwood, Terence Allan. Prophecy and the Philosophy of Mind:

 Traditions of Blake and Shelley. Univ. of Alabama, 1985.

Howard, John. Infernal Poetics: Poetic Structures in Blake's

Lambeth Prophecies. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson Press,

1984.

Hughes, William R., ed. Jerusalem: A Simplified Version.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1964.

Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. Blake's Illustrations to the Bible.

London: Trianon Press, 1956.

---, ed. The Letters of William Blake. London: Rupert Hart-

Davis, 1968.

---, ed. William Blake: Complete Writings. London: Oxford UP,

1972.

Kiralis, Karl. "A Guide to the Intellectual Symbolism of William

Blake's Later Prophetic Writings." Criticism 1 (1959): 190-

210.

---. "Theme and Structure of Blake's Jerusalem." English

 Literary History 23 (1956): 127-43.

Korteling, Jacomina. Mysticism in Blake and Wordsworth. NY:

Haskell House, 1966.

Kroeber, Karl. "Delivering Jerusalem." Blake's Sublime

Allegory. Ed. Stuart Curran and Joseph Anthony Wittreich,

Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1973.

McGann, Jerome J. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical

Investigation. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1983.

Mellor, Anne Kostelantz. Blake's Human Form Divine. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1974.

Miller, Dan, Mark Bracher, and Donald Ault, eds. Critical Paths:

Blake and the Argument of Method. Durham: Duke University

Press, 1987.

Miller, Dan. "Blake and the Deconstructive Interlude." In

Miller Critical Paths. 139-67.

Miner, Paul. "Visionary Astronomy." Bulletin of Research in the

Humanities 84 (1981): 305-36.

---. "Visions in the Darksom Air: Aspects of Blake's Biblical

Symbolism." William Blake. Ed. Rosenfeld 256-92.

Mitchell, W. J. T. Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the

Illuminated Poetry. Princeton UP, 1978.

---. "Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous Art of Writing." In

Eaves and Fischer. 46-95.

Morton, A. L. The Everlasting Gospel: A Study in the Sources of

William Blake. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1958.

---. Witness Against the Beast.

Nathan, Norman. Prince William Blake: The Philosophical

Conceptions of William Blake. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Nurmi, Martin K. "Joy, Love, and Innocence in Blake's 'The

Mental Traveller'." Studies in Romanticism 3 (1964) 109-117.

Ostriker, Alicia. Vision and Verse in William Blake. Madison:

Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1965.

Otto, Peter. Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction:

Los, Eternity, and the Productions of Time in the Later

Poetry of William Blake. Oxford, 1991.

Pagliaro, Harold. Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs.

University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania UP, 1987.

Paley, Morton D. The Continuing City. Oxford, 1983.

---. "The Female Babe and 'The Mental Traveller'." Studies in

Romanticism 1 (1962) 97-104.

Pechey, Graham. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Text and Its

Conjuncture." Oxford Literary Review 3 (1979): 52-76.

Piquet, Francois. "Le Voyageur Spirituel et le Cercle de

Destinee Blakien." Bertrandias, Bernadette, Christian La

Cassagnere, and Jean Raimond, eds. Aspects du Romantisme

Anglais Melanges Offerts a Jacques Blondel. Universite de

Clermont, 1980.

Punter, David. "Blake and the Shapes of London." Criticism 23

 (1981): 1-23.

Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Tradition. 2 vols. Princeton:

Princeton UP, 1968.

Riede, David G. "The Symbolism of the Loins in Blake's

Jerusalem." Studies in English Literature 21 (1981): 547-61.

Rose, Edward J. "Blake's Human Root: Symbol, Myth, and Design."

Studies in English Literature 20 (1980): 575-86.

---. "Circumcision Symbolism in Blake's Jerusalem." Studies in

Romanticism 8 (1968): 16-25.

---. "The Meaning of Los." Blake Newsletter 3 (1967): 10-11.

---. "The Structure of Blake's Jerusalem." Bucknell Review 11

(1962): 35-54.

Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. William Blake: Essays for S. Foster

Damon. Providence: Brown UP, 1969.

Salvat, Michel. "Les Elements Chretiens dans la Pensee de

William Blake." La Vie des Peuples 54 (1924): 330-59.
Sloss, D. J., and J. P. R. Wallis, eds. The Prophetic Writings

of William Blake. Oxford: Clarendon, 1926.

Smith, Mark Trevor. All Nature is but Art : The Coincidence of

Opposites in English Romantic Poetry. Locust Hill Press, 1993.

---. "Striving with Blake's Systems." In Erdman

Blake and His Bibles. 157-78.

Summerfield, H. "Blake and the Names Divine." Blake: An

Illustrated Quarterly 57 (1981): 14-22.

Sutherland, John H. "Blake's 'Mental Traveller'." English

Literary History 22 (1955): 136-147.

Tannenbaum, Leslie. Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early

Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. Princeton: Princeton UP,

1982.

Thompson, E.P. Witness Against the Beast.

Thorslev, Peter L. Jr. "Some Dangers of Dialectic Thinking, with

Illustrations from Blake and His Critics." Romantic and

Victorian: Studies in Memory of William H. Marshall. Ed.

 Elledge, W. Paul, and Richard L. Hoffman. Rutherford:

Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1971. 43-74.

Twitchell, James B. "'The Mental Traveller,' Infinity and the

'Arlington Court Picture." Criticism 17 (1975) 1-14.

Viscomi, Joseph. Blake and the Idea of the Book.

Wagenknecht, David. Blake's Night: William Blake and the Idea of Pastoral.

Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1973.

Wicksteed, Joseph. William Blake's Jerusalem: A Commentary.

London: Trianon, n.d.

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony Jr. Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea

of Milton. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.

---, ed. Nineteenth-Century Accounts of William Blake.

Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970.

Woodman, Ross. "The Death and Resurrection of Milton According

to the Gospel of Blake." English Studies in Canada 3 (1977):

416-32.