Articles with "william blake" as a keyword



The ‘Secret’ Life of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence And of Experience, Copy J: Anthony Blunt, The Rothschilds and M.i.5 In The Cold War

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Published in 2025 at "Visual Culture in Britain"

DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2025.2464730

Abstract: This essay investigates M.I.5’s telephone tapping in 1969 of Anthony Blunt’s conversations about his gifting to Emma Rothschild of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1795), Copy J. Blunt, Victor and Tess Rothschild… read more here.

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On Blinks and Kisses, Monkeys and Bears: Dating William Blake's An Island in the Moon

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Published in 2017 at "Huntington Library Quarterly"

DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2017.0025

Abstract: abstract:It has been generally agreed that William Blake compiled the materials for his early satire An Island in the Moon in 1784 or 1785. While David V. Erdman stood firm for 1784, R. J. Shroyer… read more here.

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Ageing as Fading and the Importance of Monument-Making in William Blake’s The Book of Thel

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Published in 2024 at "Gothic Studies"

DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2024.0204

Abstract: As an apprentice engraver, William Blake wrote his gothic poem ‘Fair Elenor’ ( Poetical Sketches, 1783) whilst drawing the tombs and monuments of Westminster Abbey for Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain (1786) and Vetusta Monumenta… read more here.

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“Printing in the infernal method”: William Blake’s method of “Illuminated Printing”

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Published in 2018 at "Interfaces"

DOI: 10.4000/interfaces.489

Abstract: In 1788 William Blake invented a technically revolutionary method of printing both word and image together that he called ‘Illuminated Printing.’ Blake’s invention made it possible to print both the text of his poems and… read more here.

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