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The Book of Urizen

William Blake - The Book of Urizen

This is the web version of my MA Thesis

Plate 1.

William Blake
- The Book of Urizen -

Table of Contents

Introduction & Acknowledgement

» I. Introducing William Blake

» II. Major Influences

The Romantic period

» III. The Book of Urizen

The Chapters

Preludium

Chapter I. - Urizen
Chapter II. - Prior to Existence
Chapter III. - Grasping Subsistence
Chapter IV. - Taking form
Chapter V. - Foundations of Life
Chapter VI. - Generation
Chapter VII. - Chains of Being
Chapter VIII. - The Material World
Chapter IX. - The Human Race

» Appendix: W.B. - The Book of Urizen

» Bibliography

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editions

dot David V. Erdman (ed.) - The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. [New York: Doubleday, 1988].
dot Ostriker, Alica (ed.) - William Blake - The Complete Poems. [London: Penguin, 1977.]
dot Keynes, Geoffrey (ed.) - The Complete Writings of William Blake. [Oxford: Oxford Universitiy Press, 1996.]

General Studies: Historical and Biographical

dot Ackroyd, Peter - Blake. [London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.]
dot Davis, Michael - William Blake: A New Kind of Man. [London, 1977.]
dot Keynes, Geoffrey - William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience. [New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.]
dot Lindsay, Jack - William Blake: His Life and Work. [London: Constable, 1978.]
dot Lister, Raymond - William Blake. [London: G. Bell and Sons, 1968.]
dot Mack, Maynard (ed.) - "William Blake" in The Norton Anthology: World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition, Volume 2. [New York: Norton, 1995.]
dot Murry, John Middleton - William Blake. [London: Jonathan Cape, 1933.]
dot Nurmi, Martin K. - William Blake. [London: Hutchinson, 1975.]
dot Wilson, Mona - The Life of William Blake. [(ed.) Geoffrey Keynes. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.]
dot Wright, Thomas - The Life of William Blake. [Olney, Bucks.: Thomas Wright, 1929.]

General Studies: Literary

dot Appelbaum, Stanley - Introduction to English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology. [Mineola: Dover, 1996.]
dot Abrahams, Cecil Anthony - William Blake's Fourfold Man. [Bonn, W. Ger.: Bouvier, 1978.]
dot Beer B. John - Blake’s Visionary Universe. [Manchester University Press, 1969.]
dot Behrendt, Stephen C. - Reading William Blake. [London: Macmillan Press, 1992.]
dot Bloom, Harold - Blake’s Apocalypse - A Study in Poetic Argument. [New York: Boubleday, 1963.]
dot Bloom, Harold - States of Being - The Four Zoas. [in Frye (ed.): Blake. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966.]
dot Bloom, Harold - The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. [Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.]
dot Csikós Dóra - Blake and Tradition. [Budapest: ELTE-BTK DELL, Szakdolgozat, 19xx.]
dot Cooper, Andrew M. - "Blake and Madness: The World Turned Inside Out." [ELH 57 (1990): 585-642.]
dot Damon, S. Foster. - A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. [New York: Dutton, 1971.]
dot Damon, S. Foster. - William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols. [Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1958.]
dot Damrosch, Leopold, Jr. - Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.]
dot Davies, J. G. - The Theology of William Blake. [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948.]
dot Fisher, Peter - The Valley of Vision - Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary. [University of Toronto Press, 1961.]
dot Frye, Northrop - Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. [Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.]
dot Gallant, Christine - Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.]
dot Keynes, Geoffrey - Blake Studies. 1949. [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.]
dot Nagy István - Blake’s Hell. [Budapest: ELTE-BTK DELL, Thesis, 19xx.]
dot Nathan, Norman - Prince William B. - The Philosophical Conceptions of William Blake. [Paris: Mouton, 1975.]
dot Ostriker, Alicia - Vision and Verse in William Blake. [Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.]
dot Percival, O. Milton - William Blake’s Circle of Destiny. [Oxford University Press, 1938.]
dot Phillips, Michael (ed.) - Interpreting Blake. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.]
dot Pinto, Vivian de Sola (ed.) - The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake. [London: Gollancz, 1957.]
dot Raine, Kathleen - Blake and Tradition. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.]
dot Swinburne, Ch. Algernon - William Blake. - Chpt. III.: The Prophetic Books . [London: William Heinemann, 1925.]
dot Tannenbaum, Leslie - Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.]
dot Varanyi Szilvia - Sin and Error in William Blake. [Budapest: ELTE-BTK DELL, Thesis 19xx.]

Specific Studies : The Mystic Blake

dot Cantor, Paul A. - Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.]
dot Erdman, David V. (ed.) - Blake and His Bibles. [West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 1990.]
dot Fisher, F. Peter - Blake and the Druids. [in Frye (ed.): Blake. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966.]
dot Harper, George Mills - The Neoplatonism of William Blake. [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.]
dot Hirst, Désiree - Hidden Riches - Traditional Symbolism from the Renaissance to Blake. [Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964.]
dot Hungerford, Edward B. - Shores of Darkness. [Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1963.]
dot Jackson, Mary - "Blake and Zoroastrianism". [in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 11. (1977): 72-85.]
dot Klonsky, Milton - William Blake: The Seer and His Visions. [London: Orbis, 1977.]
dot Morton, A.L. - The Everlasting Gospel - A Study in the Sources of William Blake. [Lawrence & Wishart, 1958.]
dot Paley, Morton D. - "A New Heaven Is Begun: Blake and Swedenborgianism." [in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 13 (1979): 64-90.]
dot Paley, Morton D. - "William Blake, the Prince of the Hebrews, and the Woman Clothed with the Sun." [in William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Ed. Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. 260-93.]
dot Schuchard, Marsha Keith - "The Secret Masonic History of Blake's Swedenborg Society" with appendix, August Nordenskjöld, "An Address to the True Members of the New Jerusalem Church." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 26 (1992): 40-51.]
dot Ziegelman, Lois - "Blake, the Druids, and the Regeneration of Generation." [University of Hartford Studies in Literature 15. (1983): 13-32.]

Specific Studies : The Book of Urizen

dot Ault, Donald D. - "Blake's De-Formation of Neo-Aristotelianism." [in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method. Ed. Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, and Donald Ault.] [Durham, Duke University Press, 1987. (p. 111-38.)]
dot Bentley, G. E., Jr. - "The Shadow of Los: Embossing in Blake's Book of Urizen." [in Art Bulletin of Victoria 30 (1989): (p. 18-23.)]
dot Curtis, F. B. - "The Geddes Bible and the Tent of the Eternals in the Book of Urizen." [in Blake Newsletter 6 (1973): (p. 93-94.)]
dot Easson, Kay Parkhurst & Roger R. Easson (eds.) - The Book of Urizen. [London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.]
dot Eaves, Morris - "The Title-Page of the Book of Urizen." [in William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Ed. Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. (p. 225-30.)]
dot Ellis, Helen B. - "Added and Omitted Plates in the Book of Urizen." [in Colby Library Quarterly 23 (1987): (p. 99-107.)]
dot Essick, Robert N. - "Variation, Accident, and Intention in Blake's Book of Urizen." [in Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): (p. 230-35.)]
dot Hoffman Rita - Blake’s The Book of Urizen and Plato’s Timaeus. [Budapest: ELTE-BTK DELL, Thesis 19xx.]
dot Howard, John - Infernal Poetics: Poetic Structures in Blake's Lambeth Prophecies. [Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.]
dot Keynes, Geoffrey (ed.) - The Book of Urizen. [London: Trianon Press, for the William Blake Trust, 1958.]
dot Mann, Paul - "The Book of Urizen and the Horizon of the Book." [in Unnam'd Forms: Blake and Textuality. Ed. Nelson Hilton and Thomas A. Vogler.] [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. (p. 49-68.)]
dot Marks, Mollyanne [Kauffman] - "Structure and Irony in Blake's The Book of Urizen." [in Studies in English Literature 15 (1975): (p. 579-90.)]
dot Mitchell, W. J. T. - "Poetic and Pictorial Imagination in Blake's The Book of Urizen." [in The Visionary Hand: Essays for the Study of William Blake's Art and Aesthetics. Ed. Robert N. Essick.] [Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1973. (p.337-80.)]
dot Simmons, Robert E. - "Urizen: The Symmetry of Fear." [in Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic. Ed. David V. Erdman and John E. Grant.] [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. (p. 146-73.)]
dot Spector, Sheila A. - "The Reasons for 'Urizen.'" [in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 21 (1988): (p. 147-49.)]
dot Sutherland, John - "Blake and Urizen." [in Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic. Ed. David V. Erdman and John E. Grant.] [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. (p. 244-62.)]
dot Tannenbaum, Leslie - Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.]
dot Tannenbaum, Leslie - "Blake's Art of Crypsis: The Book of Urizen and Genesis." [in Blake Studies 5 (1972): (p. 141-44.)]
dot Tannenbaum, Leslie - "Transformations of Michelangelo in William Blake's The Book of Urizen." [in Colby Library Quarterly 16 (1980): (p. 21-43.)]
dot Worrall, David (ed.) - William Blake: The Urizen Books. [in Blake's Illuminated Books, vol. 6.] [London: Tate Gallery Publications, for the William Blake Trust, 1995.]

General Studies : Blake's Art

dot Bindman, David - Blake as an Artist. [Oxford: Phaidon, 1977.]
dot Bindman, David - The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. (1978, reprinted 1986)
dot Bindman, David - William Blake, His Art and Times [Thames and Hudson, 1982.]
dot Blunt, Anthony - The Art of William Blake. [New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.]
dot Damon, S. Foster - A Blake Dictionary - The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. [Providence: Brown University Press, 1965.]
dot Damon, S. Foster - William Blake - His Philosophy and Symbols. [London, 1924.]
dot Digby, G. Wingfield - Symbol and Image in William Blake. [Oxford University Press, 1957.]


Internet Resources

dot The Toils of Los: Complete Written Works of Blake with Illustrations and Artwork [http://blake.bellevue.com/]
dot The William Blake Archive [http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html]
dot Blake Digital Text Project [http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/home1.html]
dot William Blake's Proverbs of Hell [http://www.users.interport.net/~tkirman/Blake.html]
dot The William Blake Page [http://www.aa.net/~urizen/blake2.html]
dot Web Museum: Blake, William [http://www.cineca.it/wm/paint/auth/blake]
dot William Blake - Blake, William [http://www.incompetech.com/authors/blake]
dot William Blake [http://members.aol.com/lshauser2/wmblake.html]
dot Glossary: Blake, William [http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/blake.html]
dot A View on William Blake [http://world.std.com/~albright/blake.html]
dot William Blake Links [http://www.qsl.net/oh1noa/blinks.htm]
dot Some William Blake on the Web [http://www.betatesters.com/penn/blake.htm]

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