A selective bibliography of 42 active links for William Blake, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Baulch, David M. "The Sublime of the Bible," on William Blake's Milton and how Blake's notion of the sublime differed from conventional ideas. In Romanticism on the Net, Issue 3 (August 1996)
Bentley, G.E. A review of Stranger from Paradise: a Biography of William Blake (Yale University Press, 2001)Reviewed in Criticism, Summer, 2002 by Kathryn Freeman
Bidney, Martin. A song of innocence and of experience: rewriting Blake in Brodkey's "Piping Down the Valleys Wild." on William Blake, Harold Brodkey, in Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1994
Connolly, Tristanne J. A review of William Blake and the Body (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Reviewed in College Literature, Spring 2004 by Longacre, Jeffrey
Eaves, Morris, et al. "Once Only Imagined." An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the future of Blake studies. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, January 2003Eliot, T.S. Poet T.S. Eliot on William Blake from Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1922)
Essick, Robert and Joseph Viscomi "An Inquiry into Blake's Method of Color Printing." In Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. 35, no. 3 (winter 2001/2002)
Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven," in Romanticism on the Net, Issue 27 (August 2002)
Hobson, Christopher Z. A review of Blake and Homosexuality (Palgrave, 2000), reviewed in Criticism, Spring, 2002 by Harriet Kramer LinkinHöltgen, Karl Josef. "William Blake and the Emblem Tradition" in EESE 2/2002
Hutchings, Kevin. "Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion" in Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Ecology, November 2001
Paananen, Victor N. A review of William Blake (Twayne Publishers, 1996). Reviewed by David M. Baulch in Romanticism on the Net, No. 8 (November 1997)
Peterfreund, Stuart. A review of William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Sciene (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998). Reviewed in Criticism, Wntr, 1999 by Grant Scott
Pfau, Thomas. "Bringing About the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Conspiracy, July 2004
Phillips, Michael. A review of William Blake: the Creation of the Songs: from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing (The British Library and Princeton University Press, 2000). Reviewed in Criticism, Fall, 2001 by Michael Ferber
Plotnitsky, Arkady. "Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake’s Minute Particulars." In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Complexity, March 2001
Punter, David. A substantial introduction to William Blake from the Literary Encyclopedia 17 July 2001. On Songs of Innocence (1789); On Songs of Experience (1794)
Punter, David (ed.) A review of William Blake, New Casebooks (Macmillan, 1996). Part of a round-up review, reviewer Michael O'Neill, Romanticism on the Net Issue 7 (August 1997)
Raine, Kathleen. A review of Raine's Blake and Tradition (Princeton Univ. Press, 1968). First page of article only. Reviewed by Jean H. Hagstrum in Modern Philology, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Aug., 1970), pp. 76-82
Reilly, Susan P. "Blake's Poetics of Sound in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." Contends that by combining many genres and choosing genres which originate in sound or speech, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell merges William Blake's Higher Criticism with an emphasis on oral culture. In Romanticism on the Net Issue 16 (November 1999)
Simpson, Michael. "Who didn't kill Blake's fly: moral law and the rule of grammar in 'Songs of Experience.' - William Blake - Rhetoric and Poetics, in Style, Summer, 1996
Wright, Julia M. Review of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio University Press, 2004) Reviewed by David Baulch. Romanticism on the Net, Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005)
Yoder, R. Paul. Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake’s Jerusalem. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Romanticism and Complexity, March 2001A biography of William Blake from Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Brief biography of William Blake from the Academy of American Poets
A short biography of William Blake from Gale's Understanding Poetry
Older criticism of William Blake's work, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). On Songs of Innocence and Thel; On Marriage of Heaven and Hell and earlier Prophecies; On Songs of Experience
On William Blake and the Gothic tradition, by Jennifer Randonis, Arizona State Univ., at Prometheus Unplugged (Emory)
"William Blake's Milton: Meaning and Madness." An undergraduate English honors paper by a pre-med student, discusses William Blake's Milton as an example of the schizophrenic mind. By Edward Robert Friedlander, M.D
An overview of interpretations of "The Tyger," includes extended secondary bibliography, part of a class project
Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An impressive scholarly enterprise devoted to English literature of the Romantic period, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996
Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer
Articles from the scholarly journal Studies in Romanticism 2000-2005 are available at this web site from the Gale Group, "Access My Library." Registration is required but it appears to be a free, open access site. The addition of this resource to the open access sites Romanticism on the Net and Romantic Circles means there are quite astonishing riches available on the free internet for the student of Romanticism [none cat.]
Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle
The William Blake Archive, a grant-funded hypermedia archive edited by Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi
The Blake Digital Text Project from Dr. Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Ga.
A web exhibition of William Blake's art from an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1999, shows 176 plates and provides commentary on William Blake's artistic techniques
For a list of William Blake's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet
"Digital Designs on Blake." A series of articles by Ron Broglio, David M. Baulch, Marcel O'Gorman, Nelson Hilton, Joseph Byrne, Adam Komisaruk, Steven Guynup, and Fred Yee consider how new media representation of William Blake's work provides a heuristic for another mode of inquiry into Blake's texts. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series, January 2005
"A Romantic Natural History" focuses on relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on William Blake and other Romantics. By Professor Ashton Nichols
A succinct secondary bibliography from Adriana Craciun for Blake and other Romantics (removed)
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