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...David Fallon Duke University Press 2007 “That Angel Who Rides on the Whirlwind”: William Blake’s Oriental Apotheosis of William Pitt David Fallon University College, Oxford...

... pur- poses. Not surprisingly, he concentrates on writers who “articulate angry emo- tions as positive and decisive enactments of the self upon the world” (5). These writers—Stauff er pays greatest attention to Blake, Byron, and Shelley—set out to refashion the politically conditioned public...

... this larger eighteenth- century context. Newman next considers Romanticism and literary interest in the ballad in the production of Wordsworth and Blake. Both poets are presented as sur- mounting the ephemeral revivalist fashions of Garrick, or of such collectors as Percy, that is, as voicing...

... the spoken word. The discovery of Samuel Johnson s tortured and fragmented scribbles in his Prayers and Meditations corrected the vision of the self- confident speaker in Boswell s Life of Johnson, a perspec- tive that either undermined his heroic stature or increased the sense of his humanity. William Blake...

... of the decade. Joseph Johnson, Darwin’s publisher, engaged William Blake to supply four illustrations of the vase (figures 2–5), which accompanied the publication of The Economy of Vegetation as part 1 of The Botanic Garden in 1792 (part 2, titled The Loves of the Plants, had been published previously).5...

... Mazzini commands his daughter, Julia to “accept the duke, or quit this castle for ever and wander where you will.” By 1790, the wildly tyrannical father was clearly already a new fixation for William Blake and Ann Radcliffe alike. Indeed, in eight short years...

...: Wordsworth, the Rabbis, and Torah” and Leslie Tannenbaum’s “‘What Are Those Golden Builders Doing Mendelssohn, Blake, and the (Un)Building of Jerusalem.” As their titles suggest, these essays place two of the major fi g- ures of English Romanticism into conversation with roughly contempo- raneous...

... order, whose antididactic stance is exemplified by many of the period’s most famous pronouncements on the subject of poetry. Blake’s “The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction” and “cast aside from Poetry all that is not Inspiration,”5 Keats...

... of Life.” 24 When the next manning crisis came in the late 1750s, wages remained at the forefront of the debate. A wide-ranging pamphlet by Captain John Blake, Plan for Regulating the Marine System of Great Britain (1758), covers the issue from the perspective of one “who was in the [Royal Navy...

... to the critical litera- ture is sound, and his readings are often compelling. His mode of reading images is strongly influenced by Erwin Panofsky’s iconology, and he focuses on major painters, particularly William Hogarth, George Romney, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, and Henry Fuseli, who, alone...

... Baldwin, had taken place. Baldwin was a member of a book- trade dynasty, a noted newspaper proprietor and printer who was involved in the printing of many important titles. On 3 June 1778, William Blake Cheese, Stolen Paper, and the London Book Trade, 1750–99 1 0 3 and Mary Pearce were...

... represented in this special issue is truly long, as espionage letters of the 1680s brush shoulders with the correspondence of Cowper, Blake, and Hayley in the 1790s. And the epistolary is at present a growth area in eighteenth-­century studies, as evidenced by major projects such as Clare Brant’s...

..., eds. Re-Envisioning­ Blake (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. xv + 262. 14 ills. $85 Csengei, Ildiko. Sympathy, Sensibility, and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. xi + 261. $85 Curran, Andrew S. The Anatomy...

... describes the items he has transcribed. He tells us that he is employed by Roger Blake, a churchwarden and former pupil, who “having a mean capacity in writing & worse in inditing & far worse accountant, employed me frequently” ( 2 :281). In April 1740, he writes for the illiterate or semi-literate...

...: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2003). Pp. 304. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-674-01237-2 Bentley, Jr., G.E. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven: Yale, 2003). Pp. 512. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-300-10030-2 Berg, Maxine, and Elizabeth Eger, eds...

... that emphasizes a mutually exclusive poetic vision has been addressed, but not really bridged by the scholarship on the Age of Sensibility.5 Yet, as Fredric Bogel indicates, Blake and Coleridge are “the two Romantic poets most strongly influenced by the literature of the Eng- lish Enlightenment” (132...

... Empire (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2013). Pp. xi + 290. $38 Gay, John. “The Beggar’s Opera” and “Polly,” ed. Hal Gladfelder (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2013). Pp. xlvii + 207. $11.95 paper Goldsmith, Steven. Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2013...

.... ISBN 0-8264-6844-6 Cash, Arthur H. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2006). Pp. 482. 27 ills. $37.50. £20. ISBN 0-300-10871-0 Clark, Steve, and Masashi Suzuki, eds. The Reception of Blake in the Orient (New York: Continuum, 2006). Pp. 348. 61 ills...

... and Prose, ed. William McCarthy & Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough: Broadview, 2001). Pp. 519. $18.95 paper. ISBN 1-55111-241-8 Bentley, G. E., Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (New Haven & London: Yale Univ., 2001). Pp. 532. 170...

...: Garnier, 2017), 273–90. 9. William Blake, The [First] Book of Urizen , in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake , ed. David Erdman, rev. ed. (New York: Doubleday, 1988), plate 25, chapter 7, ll. 5, 9–13, 20, 22, chapter 9, ll. 13–14, 9, 12. 10. See Norbert Rath, Zweite Natur...