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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
...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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 85–91.
Published: 01 September 2007
... 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...
Journal Article
“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2002
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 143–147.
Published: 01 September 2019
... 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 s illuminated poetry sought to collapse the distinc- tion between print, script, and the spoken voice...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 76–91.
Published: 01 January 2006
...: 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 252–270.
Published: 01 April 2001
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 87–105.
Published: 01 April 2023
... / Th’ auspicious omens of an eastern breeze” (C, 1:754–55). 26. This also occurs later when the master sees “harbinger[s] of furious gales” but “no dusky frown prevails” (C, 1:194, 195). 25. John Blake, A Plan, for Regulating the Marine System of Great Britain (London: A. Millar, 1758...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 133–143.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 28–49.
Published: 01 January 2024
... 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...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 140–146.
Published: 01 September 2003
...: 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 127–134.
Published: 01 April 2014
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 156–164.
Published: 01 January 2002
... 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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2007
....
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...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
... placed us.” 8 Writing in the same year, from the other side of the political spectrum, William Blake participated in the modern attack on habit in Urizen . This fallen Eternal creates a slimy “Web” or “Net of Religion” that divides Urizen's own children from the sight of eternity, until...
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