William Blake: General Reference Works

• Bentley, G. E., Jr. Blake Books: Annotated Catalogues of William Blake’s Writings in Illuminated Printing, in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

• Bindman, David, assisted by Deirdre Toomey. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

• Damon, S. Foster. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. Rev. ed. with a new foreword and annotated bibliography by Morris Eaves. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988.

• Erdman, David V. The Illuminated Blake. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1974.

• Erdman, David V., ed., with commentary by Harold Bloom. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. 1965. Rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

• Erdman, David V., with John E. Thiesmeyer, Richard J. Wolfe, et al. A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake. 2 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967.

• Essick, Robert N. William Blake Printmaker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

• Essick, Robert N. The Separate Plates of William Blake: A Catalogue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

• Keynes, Geoffrey. Blake Studies. 1949. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

• Viscomi, Joseph. Blake and the Idea of the Book. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

• Ackroyd, Peter. Blake. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.

• Beer, John. William Blake A Literary Life. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2005.

• Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

• Davis, Michael. William Blake: A New Kind of Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

• Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1863. 2nd ed., 1880.

• King, James. William Blake, His Life. London: St. Martins Press,1992.

• Lindsay, Jack. William Blake: His Life and Work. London: Constable, 1978.

• Symons, Arthur. William Blake. London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1907.

• Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake. 1927. [4th] Rev. and emended ed. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

• Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Blake. 2 vols. Olney, Bucks.: Thomas Wright, 1929.

• Bindman, David, gen. ed. Blake's Illuminated Books. 6 vols. Princeton, NJ: The William Blake Trust and Princeton University Press, and London: The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery Publications, 1991-95.

• Bindman, David, ed. The Complete Illuminated Books. London: Thames and Hudson in association with The William Blake Trust, 2000.

• Erdman, David V., ed., with the assistance of Donald K. Moore. The Notebook of William Blake: A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

• Johnson, Mary Lynn, and John E. Grant, eds. Blakes Poetry and Designs. Norton Critical Edition. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.

• Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings. 1966. Reprt. with corrections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

• Keynes, Geoffrey, ed. The Letters of William Blake. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

• Sloss, D. J., and J. P. R. Wallis, eds. The Prophetic Writings of William Blake. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926.

• Stevenson, W. H., ed. Blake: The Complete Poems. 1971. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007.

• Bentley, G. E., Jr., ed. William Blake: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.

• Bloom, Harold. Blakes Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963.

• Bronowski, Jacob. William Blake and the Age of Revolution. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

• Clark, Steve, Tristanne Connolly and Jason Whittaker, eds. Blake 2.0. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012.

• Connolly, Tristanne J. William Blake and the Body. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

• Cox, Stephen. Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blakes Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

• Damon, S. Foster. William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols. 1924. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1958.

• Davies, J. G. The Theology of William Blake. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948.

• De Luca, Vincent Arthur. Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

• Eaves, Morris. William Blake's Theory of Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

• Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• Erdman, David V., ed. Blake and His Bibles. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1990.

• Erdman, David V. Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poets Interpretation of the History of His Own Times.1954. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

• Erdman, David V., and John E. Grant, eds. Blakes Visionary Forms Dramatic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970.

• Essick, Robert N., and Donald Pearce, eds. Blake in His Time. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

• Ferber, Michael. The Social Vision of William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

• Frye, Northrop. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947.

• Fuller, David. Blakes Heroic Argument. London: Croom Helm, 1988.

• Goldsmith, Steven. Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

• Hilton, Nelson. Literal Imagination: Blakes Vision of Words. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

• Hilton, Nelson, and Thomas A. Vogler, eds. Unnamd Forms: Blake and Textuality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

• Larrissy, Edward. Blake and Modern Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.

• Matthews, Susan. Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• Mee, Jon. Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

• Mee, Jon. Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

• Mee, Jon and Sarah Haggart eds. Blake and Conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.

• Mellor, Anne K. Blake's Human Form Divine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

• Mitchell, W. J. T. Blakes Composite Art: a study of the iluminated poetry. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1978.

• Paley, Morton D. Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blakes Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

• Paley, Morton D., and Michael Phillips, eds. William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

• Phillips, Michael, ed. Interpreting Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

• Quinney, Laura. William Blake on Self and Soul. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2009.

• Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Tradition. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.

• Raine, Kathleen. Golgonooza, City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1991.

• Rosenfeld, Alvin H., ed. William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1969.

• Rowland, Christopher. Blake and the Bible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

• Schuchard, Marsha Keith. Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the sexual basis of spiritual vision. London: Century, 2006.

• Swinburne, Algernon Charles. William Blake: A Critical Essay. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. Ed. with an introduction by Hugh J. Luke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

• Tannenbaum, Leslie. Biblical Tradition in Blakes Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

• Webster, Brenda. Blakes Prophetic Psychology. London: Macmillan Press, 1983.

• Williams, Nicholas M. Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007.

• Bindman, David. Blake as an Artist. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977.

• Bindman, David. William Blake: His Art and Times. Exh. cat. n.p. [London]: Thames and Hudson, for the Yale Center for British Art [New Haven, CT] and the Art Gallery of Ontario [Toronto, Ont.], 1982.

• Blunt, Anthony. The Art of William Blake. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.

• Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. 2 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

• Eaves, Morris. William Blake's Theory of Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

• Essick, Robert N., ed. The Visionary Hand: Essays for the Study of William Blakes Art and Aesthetics. Los Angeles, CA: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1973.

• Essick, Robert N. William Blake Printmaker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

• Hagstrum, Jean H. William Blake, Poet and Painter: An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

• Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2000; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001 (with a supplement on the Metropolitan Museum version of the exhibition).

• Heppner, Christopher. Reading Blakes Designs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

• Keynes, Geoffrey. Blake Studies. 1949. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

• Klonsky, Milton. William Blake: The Seer and His Visions. London: Orbis, 1977.

• Myrone, Martin. The Blake Book. London: Tate Publishing, 2007.

• Noon, Patrick. The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection. Exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

• Paley, Morton D. William Blake. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1978.

• Phillips, Michael. William Blake: The Creation of the Songs: From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing. London: British Library, and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

• Richey, William. Blakes Altering Aesthetic. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.

• Rosenblum, Robert. Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.

• Townsend, Joyce H., ed. William Blake: The Painter at Work. London: Tate Publishing, 2003.

• Vaughan, William. William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

• Viscomi, Joseph. Blake and the Idea of the Book. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

• Warner, Janet. Blake and the Language of Art. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1984.

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