Library Guides: English 4168: Major Authors, 1789-1890: William Blake: Research & Criticism

Basic Reference Works

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
Call Number: Online and in print: PR4147 .C36 2003
A Blake Dictionary
Call Number: online and in print: PR4146 .A24 1971

Selected Blake Sites
Websites recommended by The William Blake Archive.

Scholarly Journals & Portals

Blake: an Illustrated Quarterly
The main scholarly journal dedicated to Blake. We have this online from 2011-present. Print copies of prior years are in Ellis, call number PR4147 .B472 (1977-2011). The preceding Blake Newsletter is also in Ellis, call number PR4147 .B47 (1972-1977).
Note the annual sections on recent scholarship, books, sales and discoveries.
Romantic Circles
18th Connect: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Online
Nines: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online

Blake Studies
Call Number: PR4147 .B48
Publication Date: 1971-1980

Biography

Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus. by Gilchrist, Alexander.
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 1880
For vol. 2 see https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl1g7t
Blake Records by Bentley, G. E., Jr.
Call Number: PR4146 .B37
Publication Date: 1969

Bibliographies/Databases

MLA International Bibliography Full Text
Indexes critical scholarship in the modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
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Date Coverage: 1963-date
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Literature Online
The Criticism section includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) and the full text of hundreds of journals. The Reference section is also helpful.
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Formerly known as LION
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Discover@MU
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Blake Archive Resources for Further Research

Bibliography of William Blake by Keynes, Geoffrey
Call Number: Z8103 .K44 1969
Twentieth Century Blake Criticism
Call Number: PR4147 N37 1982
Eighteenth-century Current Bibliography (ECCB)
Call Number: Room 202 Z2011 .E62 n.s.
Publication Date: 1975-present
Annual compilation of 18th century scholarship.
Romantic Movement Bibliography, 1936-1970
Call Number: Z6514.R6 R65
The Romantic Movement: a selective and critical bibliography for 1979
Call Number: Z6514.R6 R64
The Romantic Movement: a selective and critical bibliography for 1981
Call Number: Z6514.R6 R644 1982

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