Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
@blakequarterly.bsky.social
An academic journal about William Blake and his circle
Image: The Song of Los copy B, Library of Congress
Image: The Song of Los copy B, Library of Congress
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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.
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Cover design by Dina Garber.
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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...
The new Princeton Classics edition of this landmark book is now available!
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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...
The new Princeton Classics edition of this landmark book is now available!
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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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
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Blake’s Biographers” bit.ly/BME4FS in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #Blake #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th
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November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
Blake’s Biographers” bit.ly/BME4FS in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #Blake #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th
Pic detailss in ALT
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William Blake and Piet Mondrian sighting in CAPTAIN AMERICA (v6) #1 by Steve McNiven and Ed Brubaker
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
William Blake and Piet Mondrian sighting in CAPTAIN AMERICA (v6) #1 by Steve McNiven and Ed Brubaker
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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
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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
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.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Cover design by Dina Garber.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Cover design by Dina Garber.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Cover design by Dina Garber.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Cover design by Dina Garber.
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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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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.
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.
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
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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."
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."
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.
www.refresh.art
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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."
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."
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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.
October 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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.
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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
Pic info in ALT
#romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
Pic info in ALT
#romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th
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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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September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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.
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An upcoming exhibition and conference at the University of Perugia.
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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...
Minute Particulars
I’m up to my elbows in watercolours (?) finishing up some new pages of LOS, so this ‘ll be a quick one.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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...
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You can now watch Dr Rebecca Marks' fascinating talk on Blake's lost painting of The Last Judgment at blakesociety.org/product/last...
August 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can now watch Dr Rebecca Marks' fascinating talk on Blake's lost painting of The Last Judgment at blakesociety.org/product/last...
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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!
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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July 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
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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!
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!
April 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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!
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!
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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
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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
www.irishtimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The spring issue with our annual sales review is now online
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
and will be free to read for a week or so.
Huge 💐 to all our contributors!
Cover image: Yale Center for British Art
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
and will be free to read for a week or so.
Huge 💐 to all our contributors!
Cover image: Yale Center for British Art
April 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The spring issue with our annual sales review is now online
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
and will be free to read for a week or so.
Huge 💐 to all our contributors!
Cover image: Yale Center for British Art
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
and will be free to read for a week or so.
Huge 💐 to all our contributors!
Cover image: Yale Center for British Art
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Absolutely enjoyed the excellent “Apocalypse” exhibition at the BNF. It showed the Book of Revelation’s enduring relevance in a wide range of objects from medieval manuscript to contemporary art.
Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more.
#Paris
#Apocalypse
Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more.
#Paris
#Apocalypse
April 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Absolutely enjoyed the excellent “Apocalypse” exhibition at the BNF. It showed the Book of Revelation’s enduring relevance in a wide range of objects from medieval manuscript to contemporary art.
Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more.
#Paris
#Apocalypse
Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more.
#Paris
#Apocalypse
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The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £243,954 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage, in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of visionary poet and artist William Blake.
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £243,954 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage, in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of visionary poet and artist William Blake.
Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.
April 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.
We are pleased to announce that the new co-editor of Blake is Tilar Mazzeo. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to all who applied for the position.
Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)
Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We are pleased to announce that the new co-editor of Blake is Tilar Mazzeo. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to all who applied for the position.
Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)
Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)