Volume 5, Number 6 · October 28, 1965
Blake and the Scholars: I
By Anthony Blunt
William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet
by Geoffrey Keynes
Orion (with the Trianon Press, Paris), 104 pp., $15.00
William Blake Poet and Painter: An Introduction to the Illuminated Verse
by Jean H. Hagstrum
Chicago, 176 pp., $7.50
Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake
by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Yale, 335 pp., $1.95 (paper)
A Blake Bibliography: Annotated Lists of Works, Studies, and Blakeana
by G.E. Bentley Jr., by Martin K. Nurmi
Minnesota, 393 pp., $9.50
William Blake
by John Middleton Murry
McGraw-Hill, 380 pp., $2.65 (paper)
The writing of books about William Blake has become a major industry, particularly in America. Five—one admittedly a reprint—have appeared recently. One, the admirably edited and annotated Blake bibliography by G. E. Bentley and Martin K. Nurmi, lists 2,197 books and articles. The word deluge used in its blurb to describe the appearance of books on Blake is certainly no exaggeration.
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