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This thoroughly revised Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, energized by recent scholarly discoveries and new links to the William Blake Archive (blakearchive.org) and other online resources, maintains its predecessors emphasis on the visual and verbal artistry of Blake's self-published works in illuminated printing. The new edition features more than a hundred designs, 16 in color; freshly annotated and re-edited complete texts of the illuminated books, now including the full text of *Jerusalem*, and a generous selection of Blake's other writings.
An expanded "Criticism" section presents 20 appraisals of Blake's work from his own time to the present. New to "Comments by Contemporaries" is Robert Hunt's devastating review of Blake's one-artist show in 1809, to which Blake responded with vitriolic epigrams and the creation of a major villain. "Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives," now introduced by Allen Ginsberg's personal vision of Blake, preserves earlier commentary by Northrop Frye, Martin K. Nurmi, and Harold Bloom, while adding W. J. T. Mitchell's recognition of the "Dangerous Blake," Joseph Viscomi's detective work on Blake's relief etching process Alicia Ostriker's multi-layered feminist analysis, historicist-cultural studies by Jon Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright, and assessments of text-design permutations by Nelson Hilton, Stephen Behrendt, Morris Eaves, and V. A. De Luca.
Also included are an Introduction, a guide to Key Terms, a discussion of Textual Technicalities, a chronology of Blake's Life and Times, a Selected Bibliography, three maps, and Index of Sources, and an Index of Titles and First Lines.
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About the author
Mary Lynn Johnson is the coauthor, with Brian Wilkie, of *Blake's 'Four Zoas': The Design of a Dream* (1978) and coeditor, with Seraphia D. Leyda, of *Reconciliations: Studies in Honor of Richard Harter Fogle* (1983). Recent work has appeared in *The Cambridge Companion to William Blake* (2003), ed. Morris Eaves; *Physiognomy in Profile* (2005), ed. Melissa Percival and Graeme Tytler; and *Women Read William Blake* (2006), ed. Helen P. Bruder. Before serving as special assistant to the president of the University of Iowa (1983-2000), she held faculty positions at Delta State University, Louisiana State University, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, and Georgia State University and was visiting professor at Coe College and Cornell College in Iowa.
John E. Grant is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa. Before joining the Iowa vaculty, he taught at the University of Connecticut (1956-64). Most of his books and numerous essays consider William Blake's work as a writer and artist. He edited *Discussions of William Blake* (1961) and coedited, with David V. Erdman, *Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic (1970), and, with Edward J. Rose and Michael J. Tolley, *Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts* (1980). He is the honoree of the festschrift *Prophetic Character* (2002), ed. Alexander S. Gourlay.
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