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Today we publish our autumn issue (vol. 53, no. 2). It will be open access for a week before it becomes subscription based.
Continue readingThis post is the third in a series of interviews by S. Yarberry—the others were with Aditi Machado and S. Brook Corfman. S. approached us with the idea of interviewing poets about Blake and his infuence on their work: “I’m interested in bridging contemporary poetry with the academic study of Blake—academia and creative circles sometimes sit so far apart that we forget how much common language we have.” The interview has been lightly edited for style. Bios. are at the end of the post.
Continue readingThe British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) held its biennial conference (Romantic Facts and Fantasies) at the University of Nottingham in late July (@BARS2019). The International Conference on Romanticism (@ICRMCR2019) at the University of Manchester and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism meeting (@2019Nassr) at the University of Illinois at Chicago followed in quick succession.
Continue readingToday sees the publication of our summer issue (vol. 53, no. 1).
Continue readingToday sees the online publication of our spring issue (vol. 52, no. 4).
Continue readingThis review will appear in the summer 2019 issue of Blake.
Continue readingThe winter issue of the journal (vol. 52, no. 3) is online today, which is timely weather-wise here in Rochester.
Continue readingThe Blake Quarterly has published checklists and reviews of musical settings of Blake’s works in almost every genre. Today Joseph A. Thompson, composer and musician for the group Astralingua, reflects on his setting of “A Poison Tree” for their upcoming album Safe Passage.
Continue reading“Every word and every letter is studied and put into its fit place”—Blake might have been describing our carefully curated blog posts (!), but it’s actually a claim for his gnarly epic Jerusalem, the focus of the lead piece in our autumn issue (vol. 52, no. 2).
Continue readingThis review will appear in the autumn 2018 issue of Blake. The reviewer, Luke Walker, completed his PhD on “William Blake in the 1960s: Counterculture and Radical Reception” at the University of Sussex, and has published various articles and book chapters relating to this topic. His most recent publication is “Beat Britain: Poetic Vision and Division in Albion’s ‘Underground’” in The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature (2018). His next major Blake project will be a study of Blake’s influence on modern children’s literature.
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