William Blake

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Standard Name: Blake, William

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Butts
Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marghanita Laski
ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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An ecstatic state is one in which...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
Once more the titles provoke curiosity. They include Venice, Now and Then, Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be (opening line of a poem by Robert Browning ), Yellow...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
In 1972 KR published Yeats , the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats and Blake , as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and its Costs (in the Chatto Counterblasts Series) lambasted the British government for failing to provide an adequate standard of living for children.
The...
Textual Production Eva Figes
EF explicitly addressed to grandparents her Tales of Innocence and Experience. An Exploration, which is both a memoir and a collection of revisions of fairy-tales.
By its allusion to Blake , the title evokes...
Textual Production Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
xvi
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1677 (1859): 812
To most readers today the...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
For Mary King Patterson of the New York Daily News (a personal friend), MBL wrote It Is Happening Now, about England at war (an imaginary war, since the story was complete some months before...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats and Blake fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 291
This publication was volume 17...
Textual Production Mary Butts
This account of her life from childhood to the age of twenty takes its title from a poem by William Blake . The poem's speaker is caught by a Maiden while dancing in the wild...
Textual Production Edna Lyall
Her general practice was to suggest half a dozen titles and let her publisher choose. With this book she reverted to a three-volume format and to Hurst and Blackett .
Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
In the year before...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Jennifer Johnston
JJ published another novel through Sinclair-Stevenson , The Invisible Worm, which is titled from Blake 's poem The Sick Rose.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production E. B. C. Jones
EBCJ dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton , with quotations from Edwin Muir and William Blake .
Dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
KR published William Blake, the first of her many critical studies of Blake .
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 559
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 288
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2565 (30 March 1951): 202

Timeline

1783: John Flaxman and the Rev. A. S. Mathew paid...

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1783

John Flaxman and the Rev. A. S. Mathew paid for the printing (not publication) of William Blake 's first book, Poetical Sketches.

1789: William Blake published the first of his...

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1789

William Blake published the first of his engraved books of lyrics, Songs of Innocence.

May 1809: William Blake's exhibition of his own work...

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May 1809

William Blake 's exhibition of his own work opened at 28 Broad Street (his brother James's house); though scheduled to close in September, it ran until 2 June 1810.

1826-7: William Blake published his last work as...

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1826-7

William Blake published his last work as an engraver: illustrations to Dante 's Divine Comedy.

By 4 January 1868: William Blake: A Critical Essay by Algernon...

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By 4 January 1868

William Blake : A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne appeared.

After 6 February 1918: Sir Hubert Parry wrote his musical setting...

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After 6 February 1918

Sir Hubert Parry wrote his musical setting for William Blake 's Jerusalem to celebrate women's victory in the suffrage struggle: this fact is not (unlike the music, which is now as famous as the poem)...

Texts

Blake, William. “Introduction”. Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose, edited by Hazard Adams, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. v - xix.
Blake, William. The Poetical Works of William Blake. Editor Sampson, John, Oxford University Press, 1914.