Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

Cover of Articulate Sounds. Background is an illustration by William Blake from "Europe: A Prophecy". In the top third, white text on a blue background reads "A British Academy Monograph. Articulate Sounds: Music, Dissent, and Literary Culture, 1789-1840. James Grande". British Academy letter mark in white in the bottom left corner.

Articulate Sounds by James Grande (@jamesgrande.bsky.social) is now available Open Access at bit.ly/4qQ8vhz.

This British Academy Monograph reveals the deeply ambivalent relationship between music, religious dissent, and literary Romanticism.

🌾 Habemus thatch! 🌾
The eastern extension is now being thatched. This represents a huge milestone in the restoration of Blake’s Cottage.

With your support, we can complete the work and open the cottage in time for William Blake’s bicentennial in 2027.

#Blake200 #nlhf #historicengland

A recording of BLAKETY BLAKE is now up at blakesociety.org/product/the-..., for those who would like to play along at home 😀

Our winter issue is out, with Rebecca Marks's article on Blake's Last Judgment series and history painting:
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The cover is adapted from the title page for Blake's illustrations to Gray's poems.

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter Miniature Worlds explores the intricate beauty of small-scale landscapes across three centuries of British art.

Last but not least in this William Blake birthday-fest, he's part of 'little landscapes' exhibition at Newcastle's Laing. www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/laing/whats-...

LOS part 6 Sibling rivalry

Blake, birthday (mine, not his), brothers, and Tate Britain.
New pages of LOS, my graphic novel about William Blake…
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-6

The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that we are finally restoring the cottage to the form that William and Catherine Blake would have known.

To complete this restoration, we need your support. Please consider donating to the Blake Cottage Trust.

www.justgiving.com/charity/blak...

Leading Blake Scholar and editor of @blakequarterly.bsky.social Morton D. Paley discusses William Hayley’s poetry.

Discover more: bit.ly/HayleyRomneyBlake in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

The Book Unbound Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound

OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

The William Blake Fellowship has mounted a petition to gather support for transforming 17 South Molton Street into a cultural centre. See
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake by Northrop Frye. The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers.

Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake.

The new Princeton Classics edition of this landmark book is now available!

Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Profile sketch of William Blake by John Flaxman. Blake is facing the left, hair receding, brushed back and curling at the (collar-length) ends. His visible eye is large, his nose wide, lips full and slightly downturned giving a serious (not sad) expression, and he has a double chin. John Flaxman, 1755–1826, Portrait of William Blake, ca. 1804, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1992.8.11(59).

Interested in #WilliamBlake &/or biography? Read @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social & @urthonaunbound.bsky.social’s: “‘Be My Enemy for Friendship’s Sake’: Hayley &
Blake’s Biographers” bit.ly/BME4FS in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #Blake #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th

Pic detailss in ALT

William Blake and Piet Mondrian sighting in CAPTAIN AMERICA (v6) #1 by Steve McNiven and Ed Brubaker

Dark Romanticism book jacket

Silvia Riccardi who wrote the fab bit.ly/DanteHayley in bit.ly/HayleyEssays has a new monograph out: Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body. Check it out: buff.ly/zwJnsqw

A bit late for Halloween, but here’s young William Blake’s brother fulfilling the age old duty of big siblings everywhere by freaking him out

More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4

#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory

In our new 🍂 📖, Christopher Hobson asks "Who Are Blake's Eternals?," @luisacale.bsky.social reviews "Blake and Exhibitions, 2024," and Simon Schaffer explores the significance of Steelyard the Lawgiver.
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Cover design by Dina Garber.

Attention all poets and budding poets!

A poetry competition with a local focus.
"In the footsteps of William Blake"
Write a poem no longer than 500 words.

The short listed topics entries will be presented at a Blake Event at Bognor Regis Library at 6.30pm on 3rd December. More details to follow.

What a pleasure to study William Blake's unique illustrations for Thomas Gray's poem "The Bard" at the YCBA. Blake inserted the printed text into a cutout in the centre of a larger sheet of watercolor paper, an absolutely novel way of approaching the relationship between text and image.

Refresh • A Modern Prophecy: Auriea Harvey's Poetic Resistance at Arebyte Refresh Magazine review of exhibition 'A Modern Prophecy' by Auriea Harvey'sat Arebyte Gallery.

My show at arebyte in London was reviewed by Refresh: www.refresh.art/reviews/a-mo...
I thank them for taking the time to get to know what I was going for!

"The press release explicitly draws a parallel to the prophetic books of William Blake, and the comparison is anything but superficial."

Paid a visit this morning to the Museum of Fine Arts, primarily because they have a special exhibition of William Blake prints. I'm a fan of Blake as an artist and a poet. Given most of the exhibits came from The Tate, why didn't I see it in the UK. Well for one I had the whole exhibition to myself.

Impressionistic pen sketch of house in background, with green bush front right and to right on hill, viewed through 2 trees front centre & left, with more greenery/?dead tree to left foreground. William Blake, 1757–1827, The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham, 1801, Pen and black ink with watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.2396.

Frenemies? “The relationship is perhaps best understood as a drama in four acts …” Nicholas Shrimpton conducts a forensic reassessment of Williams #Blake & Hayley’s #friendship: bit.ly/RevisitHayleyBlake in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

Pic info in ALT

#romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th

Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️
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An upcoming exhibition and conference at the University of Perugia.

Minute Particulars I’m up to my elbows in watercolours (?) finishing up some new pages of LOS, so this ‘ll be a quick one.

New old comic strip about Catherine Blake, along with latest developments on LOS, my work in progress graphic novel about William Blake open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...

You can now watch Dr Rebecca Marks' fascinating talk on Blake's lost painting of The Last Judgment at blakesociety.org/product/last...

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

Our summer issue is out today and free to read for a week. Many thanks to the contributors for their outstanding efforts to record all things Blake.
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Q&A with Hans-Ulrich Möhring The germ of this Q&A lay in a query to the Blake Archive that came my way on the road to its destination. It had been a while since I had corresponded with Hans-Ulrich, and I took the opportuni…

A Q&A on the #BlakeBlog with translator Hans-Ulrich Möhring:
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Photo of a copy of Eternity's Sunrise: The Illuminated Works of William Blake side-by-side with a colorful print of Blake's 'Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car' print from his series on The Divine Comedy.

Two Blind Date with a Book packets side-by-side. One packet's genre is Political Fantasy and the other's is Uproarious Drama. I was really channeling my inner Lumon when I came up with these

Photograph of the interior of a used bookstore. Full bookshelves and a full CD rack are visible. The central display table has a sign which reads Bargain Books ($1.00 or less) 50% OFF

Photo dump! I took these pics around the store after closing Sat. so all of this is still available 👍

We have LOTS of books on Wm Blake just now + some nice prints; 2 Blind Date packets left, & a bunch of our bargain books are still in the center display. We're here tonight til 5 - hope to see you!

Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish? Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But a new look at the story suggests an alternative possibility

Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish? Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But Philip Hoare’s new book suggests an alternative possibility

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