William Blake: Select Bibliography


Barr, Mark L. “Practicing Resistance: Blake, Milton, and the English Jury.”  European Romantic Review. Volume 18, Issue 3 (2007): 361-379. [Available through Informaworld]

Beer, John. Blake's Humanism, New York: Manchester University Press, 1968.

Bentley, G. E. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven, Ct.: Yale UP, 2003)

Blackstone, Bernard. English Blake, North Haven: Archon Books, 1966. .

Bronowski, Jacob. William Blake and the Age of Revolution, New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Clark, David L. “'The Innocence of Becoming Restored': Blake, Nietzsche, and the Disclosure of Difference.”  Studies in Romanticism Volume 29, Issue 1 (1990): 91-113. [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

Damon, Samuel Foster. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake, Providence: Brown University Press, 1965, revised edition, University Press of New England, 1988.

Erdman, David V. Blake, Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of his Own Times, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1977.

Essick, Robert N.  “William Blake, Thomas Paine, and biblical revolution.”  Studies in Romanticism Volume 30, Issue 1 (1991): 189-212. [Available online through Periodicals Archive Online]

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

Gillam, D. G. William Blake, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Goldsmith, Steven.  “Blake's agitation.” South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 95, Issue 3 (1996): 753-797. [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Harper, George Mills. The Neoplatonism of William Blake, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Kripal, Jeffrey J. “REALITY AGAINST SOCIETY: William Blake, Antinomianism, and the American Counterculture.”  Common Knowledge Volume 13, Issue 1 (2007): 98-112. [Available through EBSCOhost]

McQuail, Josephine A. “Passion and Mysticism in William Blake.”  Modern Language Studies  Volume 30, Issue 1(2000): 121-34. [Available online through JSTOR]

Mulvihill, James.  “'Demonic objectification and fatal isolation': Blake and the culture industry.”  Studies in Romanticism Volume 38, Issue 4 (1999): 597-620. [Available online through Proquest]

Percival, Milton O. William Blake's Circle of Destiny, New York: Columbia University Press, 1938.

Rix, Robert W. “'In Infernal Love and Faith': William Blake's 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.”  Literature & Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory, and Culture Volume 20, Issue 2 (2006): 107-25. [Available online through Proquest]

Schierenbeck, Daniel.  “'Sublime Labours': Aesthetics and Political Economy in Blake's Jerusalem.”  Studies in Romanticism Volume 46 Issue 1 (2007): 21-42. [Available online through Proquest]

Schorer, Mark. William Blake: The Politics of Vision, New York: Vintage Books, 1959.

Stevenson, W.H.  “Blake's Progress.”  Essays in Criticism Volume 49, Issue 3 (1999): 195-218.

Swearingen, James F. “William Blake's figural politics.”  English Literary History Volume 59, Issue 1 (1992): 125-44. [Available online through JSTOR]

Thompson, E. P.  Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (New York: New Press, 1995)

Vine, Steve. “Blake's Material Sublime.”  Studies in Romanticism Volume 41, Issue 2 (2002): 237-57. [Available online through Proquest]

Viscomi, Joseph. “Blake's 'Annus Mirabilis': The Productions of 1795.” Blake, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2007): 52-83.

White, Harry. “Blake's Resolution to the War between Science and Philosophy.”  Blake Volume 39, Issue 3 (2005): 108-25.

 

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