Blake Quarterly (fall 2021)
28 October 2021
Our autumn 2021 issue (vol. 55, no. 2) is out now; it will be open access for a week.
Continue readingBlake Archive Video Tutorials: where have we come from and where are we going?
19 August 2021
It has been about three years since the first video in what is now a series of video tutorials on the various features of the Blake Archive was uploaded to YouTube. It has been a little over a year since I completed the first of the handful that I would eventually write and record. Making these videos has been an interesting and valuable experience, and in the process I’ve learned a lot about microphones, screen recording, and perseverance. The original spreadsheet of video ideas from which we have been working is nearing completion and another video ideas brainstorming session is likely in order.
Continue reading“All his neighbourhood bewail his loss”: Bo Ossian Lindberg, 1937-2021
12 August 2021
This obituary is by Morton D. Paley, co-editor of Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly.
Continue readingBlake Quarterly (summer 2021)
22 July 2021
The first issue of volume 55 (summer 2021) is available online today. It will be open access until the end of July.
Continue readingSlaying the Demon King: William Blake and Urizen in Devil May Cry 5
7 July 2021
Julian S. Whitney
Wabash College
Video games have become a popular medium in which to feature excerpts from Romantic poetry. The 2019 post-apocalyptic action game developed by Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding, originated with a 2016 reveal trailer that showcased a short excerpt from William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence.”[1] Likewise, the 2014 side-scrolling exploration game titled Elegy for a Dead World requires its players to write a diary based on their exploration through three worlds inspired by the literature of Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats.[2] These video games incorporate Romantic poetry as a way to contextualize, thematize, and construct the narrative and mechanical aspects of their respective designs. But what happens when a video game appropriates certain mythological elements of Romanticism and integrates them into the foundation of its own story?
Continue readingMelanie Smith and the Influence of Blake
28 June 2021
Melanie Smith is one of the leading artists of her generation. Her recent piece Vortex is a multimedia work inspired by William Blake’s The Circle of the Lustful that intertwines performance, sculpture, and moving images. Smith’s installation at the Parafin in London, titled Leave it to the Amateurs, pulls from Vortex, consisting of film, photographs, and collages. These are displayed alongside paintings on panel that are derived from the works of Blake.
Continue readingA New Blake Book
6 June 2021
I’d like to think that the Blake Quarterly does a decent job of celebrating books and articles on Blake that are not in English. Chuck Ripley’s annual checklist of publications, which will next appear in our upcoming summer 2021 issue, features four collaborators: Hüseyin Alhas for works in Turkish, Fernando Castanedo for Romance languages, Hikari Sato for Japanese, and Vera Serdechnaia for Russian and other Cyrillic languages.
Continue readingPublication: Biblical Illustrations Exhibit
27 April 2021
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of a digital exhibition on William Blake’s Biblical Illustrations. It joins the previously published installments in this wing: William Blake’s Canterbury Pilgrims, Biography, and Illuminated Printing. Exhibitions can be accessed through the drop-down at the upper right of the Archive’s home page.
Continue readingThe Development of the Biblical Illustrations Exhibition
27 April 2021
The Blake Archive’s April 2021 publication is an exhibition on Blake’s biblical illustrations. This is the story of how it came to be.
Continue readingBlake Quarterly (spring 2021)
22 April 2021
Today sees the publication of vol. 54, no. 4 (spring 2021). It will be open access until the end of April.
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