A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript and a Study of its Growth and Significance, ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr, Oxford University Press, 1963.
The Four Zoas: A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript with Commentary on the Illuminations, ed. Cettina Tramontane Magno and David V. Erdman, Bucknell University Press, 1987.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Ackroyd, Blake, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.
G. E. Bentley, Jr, Blake Records, Oxford University Press, 1969. Supplement, 1988.
—— Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake, Yale University Press, 2001.
Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, ‘Pictor Ignotus’, 2 vols., 1863; Everyman, 1945.
James King, William Blake: His Life, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1991.
Mona Wilson, The Life of William Blake, 1927, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, Oxford University Press, 1971.
CRITICAL STUDIES
G. E. Bentley, Jr, William Blake: The Critical Heritage, Routledge, 1975
Harold Bloom, Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument, Doubleday, 1963.
Helen P. Bruder, William Blake and the Daughters of Albion, Macmillan, 1997.
Tristanne J. Connolly, William Blake and the Body, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
S. Foster Damon, William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols, London, 1924.
Leopold Damrosch, Symbol and Truth in Blake’s Myth, Princeton University Press, 1980.
Jackie DiSalvo, War of the Titans: Blake’s Critique of Milton and the Politics of Religion, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.
Morris Eaves, William Blake’s Theory of Art, Princeton University Press, 1982.
—— The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake, Cornell University Press, 1992.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Blake’, in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, London, 1920; reprinted as ‘William Blake’ in Selected Essays, Faber, 1932.
David V. Erdman, Blake: Prophet Against Empire, A Poet’s Interpretation of the History of His Own Times, Princton University Press, 1954.
Michael Ferber, The Social Vision of William Blake, Princeton University Press, 1985.
—— The Poetry of William Blake, Penguin, 1991.
Harold Fisch, The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake: A Comparative Study, Clarendon Press, 1999.
Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, Princeton University Press, 1947.
David Fuller, Blake’s Heroic Argument, Methuen, 1988.
Robert F. Gleckner, The Piper and the Bard: A Study of William Blake, Wayne State University Press, 1959. (Blake’s early work through Visions of the Daughters of Albion.)
Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment: Blake’s Songs and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Nelson Hilton (ed.), Essential Articles for the Study of William Blake, 1970–1984, Archon Books, 1986.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr, Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake, Yale University Press, 1964.
Christopher Z. Hobson, Blake and Homosexuality, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
James Joyce, ‘William Blake’, in The Critical Writings of James Joyce, ed. E. Mason and R. Ellman, Faber, 1959.
Zachary Leader, Reading Blake’s Songs, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1981.
Margaret Ruth Lowery, Windows of the Morning: A Critical Study of William Blake’s ‘Poetical Sketches’, Oxford University Press, 1940.
Kathleen Lundeen, Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology, Association of University Presses, 2000.
Josephine Miles, ‘The Language of William Blake’, in Eras and Modes in English Poetry, University of California Press, 1957.
Dan Miller, Mark Bracher and Donal Ault (eds.), Blake and the Argument of Method, Duke University Press, 1987.
W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake’s Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry, Princeton University Press, 1978.
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